The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), with a total of 64,624 results of candidates withheld over various forms of infractions.
Candidates are to check their results by 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, announced the release of the results on Monday at a news conference in Abuja, saying the withheld results would be subjected to further investigation by the board.
The 2024 UTME exercise which started on Friday 19th April, 2024, ended on Monday, 29th April, 2024.
Oloyede disclosed that 1,989,668 candidates registered for the examinations held in 118 towns in 774 Computer Based Test Centres (CBT).
He explained that 64,624 results were under investigation for various reasons such as verification (2,896), procedural investigations(4,594), and prima facie established examination misconduct (78).
He said other results under investigation were centre-based investigations involving 57,056 candidates in 18 centres across the country. The 18 centres listed for the investigation were 12 in Edo, three in Akwa Ibom, two in Delta and one in Kwara state.
“The Board witnessed a near-zero infraction situation in the 2024 UTME except for a few cases, which represent just a tiny fraction of what was reported last year.
“This is encouraging and the Board is poised to consolidate on the successes recorded,” he said.
He noted that the 2024 UTME was the most seamless examination conducted by the Board with massive deployment of state-of-the-art technology that has helped reduce drastically cases of examination malpractice.
According to him, in the course of the examination, 25 sessions experienced hiccups disrupting only 150 of the total 9,156 sessions in 95 of the 774 centres.
He said, “The examination misconduct is clearly being eliminated from examinations conducted by the Board as only 78 cases of examination misconduct were recorded in the just-concluded exercise”.
Credit: Nigerian Tribune