The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has described its supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held across 170 centres nationwide as satisfactory.
The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Saturday.
The board’s Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, had after the conduct of the main examination that held between May 10 and May 20 announced the cancellation of 59,698 results of the 1.7 million candidates.
He hinged the cancellation on what he had described as ‘organised malpractice.’
Oloyede also announced the blacklisting of 48
Computer Based Test Centres (CBTs) over their
involvement in extortion and organised
examination malpractice during the same
examination.
He, however, noted that the board had fixed July
1 for supplementary examination for candidates
who had registered late for this year’s UTME.
Oloyede added that some of the candidates,
whose results were cancelled, would also take
part in the rescheduled examination, having
discovered that they were not directly involved in
such malpractice.
He also listed other categories of candidates
with issues such as biometric non-verification
machine related issues, technical and log out
issues, incomplete results and candidates who
lost examination sessions due to malfunctioning
of servers at the affected centre as those to
participate in the supplementary UTME.
Oloyede had noted that the decision to allow the
candidates sit for the rescheduled examination
was reached after a thorough review of all the
reports that emanated from their centres.
According to Benjamin, however, no fewer than
85,000 candidates participated in the
supplementary examination.
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