JAMB releases 1.3 million UTME results today

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it will release no fewer than 1 . 3 million results of candidates that sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday ( today ) after they had gone through security checks and found to be without malpractice .

The JAMB Head of Information, Dr . Fabian Benjamin , who stated this on Sunday in an interview with our correspondent , added that the UTME results of Computer -Based Test centres where the CCTV showed malpractices had been cancelled .

The board said the CCTV showed “strange things” such as CBT centre owners collecting money from candidates to engage in malpractices and also threatening JAMB officials at the centres .

The JAMB spokesman said , “We are presently viewing the CCTV to ensure that results are not released in several batches . On Monday , we will release over 1 . 3 million results . These are the results of the CBT centres that have been screened .

We cannot say how many cases of malpractice we have yet , because we are still viewing the CCTV to discover more cases.

“ Some strange findings that the CCTV has showed us include a situation where the CBT owners were collecting money from UTME candidates and seeing to how they could assist them . Our officials at the centres raised the alarm but they were also afraid so that their lives would not be endangered .

“ What the JAMB officials did was to silently play along with them , but we were watching everything on the CCTV .

We later sent operatives to the centres and caught them . Such UTME results were completely cancelled . We knew that there were some innocent candidates in such centres and we have asked them to go to other CBT centres and rewrite immediately . ”

Benjamin said candidates whose fingers could not be captured during the biometric verification before the examination , would not be allowed to retake the examination , as the biometric verification had already disqualified them .

“ We have also concluded all arrangements to do the UTME for blind candidates. The examination is taking place in five centres . These are Abuja , Lagos , Kano , Benin and Enugu . The candidates are writing on Monday ( today ), ” he added .