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THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is expected to release the results of about 1.3million candidates that sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Tuesday.
JAMB Registrar and Chief Executive, Professor Is-haq Oloyede had announced that the results of the 2018 UTME would be delayed to enable the Board scrutinise the results and resolve issues involving the conduct of the examination before they are released.
He explained that this would forestall a situation where results of candidates were cancelled because of irregularities after release.
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The JAMB Head of Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, confirmed to Nigerian Tribune, the Board held a crucial meeting on Monday over the results and that some results were to be released after the meeting they did yesterday or today (Tuesday).
Benjamin, also disclosed that no other result had been released after the first batch of over 300,000 results that were released.
He said the Board was working diligently to ensure that the results are processed and posted on the board’s website soonest, adding that the board was delaying some of the results because each has to undergo total scrutiny before being posted on its website to avoid cancellations later.
He said that modalities were being put in place to ensure all the results are transparent and accurate.
He added that it had cancelled UTME results of Computer-based test centres where CCTV cameras showed malpractices.
Tuesday’s result is the second batch of the recently concluded UTME, which a total of 1,662,762 candidates registered for.
Source: Naijablognews
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