The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the results of one million, seven hundred and ninety two thousand seven hundred and nineteen candidates out of the one million, eight hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred and eight candidates who sat for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations in April.
Announcing the results in Abuja, the JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, said thirty-four thousand, one hundred and twenty results were withheld including the results of fifteen thousand, one hundredand forty-five candidates which were being further clarified as ‘identical twins and siblings.’
He explained further that fifty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-seven candidates were absent during the exams.
The board stated that the UTME which was conducted between April eleven and seventeen, 2019 across the thirty-six states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was painstaking, describing it as a success story.
The JAMB registrar disclosed that one hundred and sixteen exam centres had been blacklisted, including a Computer-based Test centre in Akokwa in Delta state which bribed exam officers with one-point-seven million.
He noted that the exams recorded multiple registrations, pointing out that a candidate, for instance, registered twenty-three times for the examination.
Professor Oloyede directed candidates to send ‘RESULT’ to the shortcode, 55019, on their handsets, instead of patronizing a cyber cafe to check their results.
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