In an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Saturday, JAMB's Head of Media
and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, has described the board's
supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held
across 170 centres nationwide as satisfactory.
It will also
interest you to know that the board’s Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, had after
the conduct of the main examination that held between May 10 and May
20, announced the cancellation of 59,698 results of the 1.7 million candidates.
He hinged the
cancellation on what he had described as "organised malpractice."
Oloyede also
announced the blacklisting of 48 Computer Based Test Centres (CBTs) over their
involvement in extortion and organised examination malpractice during the same
examination.
He, however,
noted that the board had fixed July 1 for supplementary examination for
candidates who had registered late for this year’s UTME.
Oloyede added
that some of the candidates, whose results were cancelled, would also take part
in the rescheduled examination, having discovered that they were not
directly involved in such malpractice.
He also listed
other categories of candidates with issues such as biometric non-verification
machine related issues, technical and log out issues, incomplete results and
candidates who lost examination sessions due to malfunctioning of servers at
the affected centre as those to participate in the supplementary UTME.
Oloyede had
noted that the decision to allow the candidates sit for the rescheduled
examination was reached after a thorough review of all the reports that
emanated from their centres.
According to
Benjamin, however, no fewer than 85,000 candidates participated in the
supplementary examination, and that candidates who sat for the examination
should expect their results within the next 24 hours.
Read his
statement below:
I must say we are happy with the conduct of the rescheduled examination. In fact the conduct of the examination in all the centres was satisfactory.
We did not anticipate any challenges and I must say it was well monitored going by the fact that the number of candidates that participated was just a fraction of the number that had sat for the examination earlier in May.
Having said this however, we do not envisage coming across issues that led to the cancellation of results of some candidates after the main examination.
But in an event where we come across any, we will not hesitate to cancel such results again.
We have just concluded the examination and we are hopeful that within the next 24 hours, candidates will start receiving their results.
Source: The
Nation Nigeria