Out of the 1,718,425 candidates who
registered and sat for the just concluded
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(UTME) across the federation, only
1,606,901 results have been released by the
Joint Admission and Matriculation Board
(JAMB).
This was disclosed by the registrar of JAMB
Ishaq Oloyede
at a news conference in
Abuja on Wednesday, May 31.
The Cable reports that Oloyede stated that
the decision to withhold some 76,923
results out of the 80,889 outstanding was
deliberately taken by the board due to
alleged exam malpractices in some of the
examination centers.
The results were released within 24 hours
of the examination and the registrar
disclosed that the outstanding results
would be released soon.
In his words: "Six weeks into the
registration, we harvested in preparation
for the exam about 1.7 million registrations.
"But so far, we have released the results of
1,606,901 candidates leaving us with a
balance of 80,889.
"Out of this 80,889, we have deliberately withheld 76,925 results for further
investigation because of alleged
malpractices." The registrar criticized some of the parents
who he said had also contributed to the
cases of exam malpractices by purchasing
fake questions for their wards.
The owners of some CBT centers were also
faulted, for trying to help candidates, by
deliberately shutting down and
disconnecting their networks in order to
access questions on the computers.
To stem the tide of malpractice, Oloyede
stated that 'jammers' would be introduced
for subsequent exams.
The registrar said that from 2018, results
would not be released immediately after
exams unless all issues pertaining to the
conduct of the examination had been
thoroughly looked into.
He gave the assurance that the yet-to-be-
released results would be released before
the universities commence admissions.
