The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released an additional 531 results of the recently conducted Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations taking the total number of results released to 1,842,897.
This information is contained in a statement by the Public Communication Advisor of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, today in Abuja.
Benjamin said the Board had proceeded with the screening of over 64,000 withheld results due to cases of examination misconduct.
“In the course of the exercise, other cases of examination misconduct were also established to make a tally of 92 from the 81 initially discovered,” he said.
He further explained that the Board was also looking at cases of unverified candidates and would soon come up with a position.
He added that the attention of the Board had been drawn to some fallacious publications purporting that an unknown candidate, who did not sit for the Board’s 2024 UTME obtained scores.
Benjamin described this as fake, malicious and a calculated attempt to undermine the integrity of the Board while urging the public to disregard such publications.
He said that the publication which levels such a grievous allegation, has no details of the candidate for proper verification.
He said that in investigating some of these allegations, the Board discovered that some of these mischief makers copied results sent to other candidates.
He said that this development would only propel the Board to further tighten the process of checking its results to make it more personalized.
Benjamin said it would be stringent when it should be a straightforward exercise.
“The Board reiterated that neither its results nor any of its processes have been compromised.
“Hence, it will continue to protect the integrity of its systems against such malicious actors, who are hell-bent on creating confusion where none existed,” he said.
Benjamin stated that the Board will add more features like registration numbers to the existing UTME result-checking process going forward, to make it extra difficult for anybody to manipulate.
He urged candidates to keep their details secure, noting that if they were found associating with any of these mischievous elements, they would be treated as collaborators.
The JAMB spokesman said that the method of checking the 2024 UTME remained to send UTMERESULT to 55019 or 66019 and not through any other process.
He, therefore, said the result at the moment is not on the Board’s website.
Punch / Oluwabusayo Oyinloye
