THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who took part in the supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations (UTME) written in June 2024.
The Board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement on Friday, June 28.
He stated that the supplementary examination was conducted for over 28,000 candidates, comprising those who could not be biometrically verified or those suspected of being involved in malpractices.
“The exercise, which recorded a huge success nationwide, was marked by heightened security measures put in place by the Board to preclude any instance of examination infractions.
“As such, some nefarious characters, who had attempted to impersonate bona fide candidates were apprehended and handed over to law enforcement agencies for further investigation and prosecution,” Benjamin said.
The ICIR reported that the supplementary examinations became necessary due to non-compliance with criteria by the examination centres of affected candidates.
Benjamin urged candidates to refrain from examination malpractices and avoid making attempts to upgrade their scores fraudulently.
“To check their supplementary UTME results, candidates are to send UTMERESULT to either 55019 or 66019 through the same phone number they had used to generate their profile codes at the start of registration,” the statement read.
During its policy meeting on June 24, the Board announced that it would determine cut-off marks for the 2024 admission year on July 18.
During the policy meeting, candidates’ performances will also be examined as reports on the year’s UTME and Direct Entry (DE) examinations will be presented by the Board’s Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede.
Critical stakeholders including the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), National Council for Colleges of Education (NCCE), National University Commission (NUC), Heads of tertiary institutions in the country, and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will be present at the meeting.
The Board also earlier disclosed that it was investigating the Imo State University (IMSU) along with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over allegations of admission racketeering.
About 10 employees of the university were arrested by the ICPC according to a report.
Ijeoma Opara is a journalist with The ICIR. Reach her via [email protected] or @ije_le on Twitter.