The Registrar, Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq
Oloyede, has said that interested applicants
can still register for the ongoing Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
being written in the country.According to Prof. Oloyede, the Senate gave
him a mandate last month to extend the
registration period by one month which would
run into May 28, being the final day the board
would close its registration portal, for
interested candidates who may still want to
register but have not done so because of
some hitches.
Prof. Oloyede gave the assurance on Friday
during his visit to a Computer-Based Centre,
CBT, in Lagos.
“As I speak, we have registered additional
1,100 candidates,” he said.
Recall that, already, JAMB had released a total
of 1,048,914 results out of the 1,648,429
candidates who have written the ongoing
UTME.
Stating further, the Registrar said the
candidates have not done badly going by the
results released so far, and said that
fingerprints may no longer be required in
subsequent UTME registrations.
Meanwhile, the examination body has denied
rumour of deductions in candidates’ marks in
the ongoing exam.
Dr Fabian Benjamin, the Head of JAMB
Information and Media, denied the reports in a
statement in Abuja.
According to Benjamin, the rumour is false,
devilish and a ploy to cause disaffection
among candidates who participated in the
2017 UTME.
“It is no longer news that all our centres have
CCTV camera and we have watched all
proceedings at the Computer Based Test
(CBT) centres across the nation.
“Those involved in any infraction will be
sanctioned in accordance with the provision of
the Examination Malpractice Act.
“The board has not deducted any marks from
any candidate and is not contemplating doing
that as it is not a condition for sanction in any
of the provisions of the law against
malpractice.
“Again, we call on all candidates to be mindful
of fraudulent characters who will send
misleading information to create panic and
take advantage of the situation to defraud
them”.
Benjamin said that the examinations had so
far been conducted for 1,698,835 candidates
and that the remaining 19950 would sit for the
examination on Saturday, May 20.
He said that the board would conclude the
ongoing examination on Saturday, May 20, and
examination results were being released for
candidates to check, except on Friday and
Saturday.
Benjamin said that report that candidates, who
could not check their results because they
owed JAMB some money, was also false.
He advised candidates not to pay any money
to anybody as their results had already been
sent to their mails and on the JAMB website:
http://www.jamb.org.ng
Benjamin advised candidates to login to check
the result with their registration number or
with email address to print.
He urged candidates with any challenge not to
hesitate to contact the board or check the
organisation’s Website for detailed information
and numbers for enquiries.
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