Release our UTME results, Candidates beg JAMB 

Some 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations candidates and parents have appealed to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to release their results.

The examination that was conducted on between April 11 and 18 has caused a lot of tension and anxiety as candidates nationwide has spoken in clear terms.

On NTA Weekend file yesterday, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is’haq Oloyede made it known that the results of the recently concluded JAMB examinations are ready and are undergoing scrutiny
“As a matter of fact, the result is ready the moment a student concludes his exam, however on our own part we have to crosscheck to make sure the student was not involved in any form of malpractice”

He further noted that the examinations did not go without attempts at malpractice.

Regarding rescheduled exams, he mentioned that candidates with genuine challenges have being transported to Abuja for their exams. He added that there will be no further exams for people with any form of inadequacies
About the release of the exams, he said:
“I can assure you the results will be released in due time. We are checking footages from individual exam centres to ensure people who engaged in malpractice are brought to book, the people in charge of this are working day and night.

Several candidates, guardians and parents have reacted that they are fed up with the inability of the board to release the results. They said “we don’t want to hear anything from the board again other than to release the UTME results”.