Candidate arrested for forging UTME score to study medicine
Mr Unekwe is the fifth person whose UTME result has been withdrawn and cancelled by the board.
Mr Unekwe is the fifth person whose UTME result has been withdrawn and cancelled by the board.
The revalidation has become necessary in a bid to detect impersonation, JAMB said.
“The initially withheld 3,736 results of candidates are now released,” JAMB said.
The official said emphasis should rather be placed on developing the 170 universities in the country.
JAMB gives reasons for its decision.
The board stated this in its weekly bulletin released from the office of the Registrar on Sunday in Abuja.
Over 1.8 million candidates registered for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The released results UTME results were among the 34,120 that were initially withheld.
Candidates can now check their results on the portal, an official said.
Over 1.8 million candidates registered for the examination.
The centres were suspected to have connived with suspects during April's UTME.
JAMB parades a staff accused of receiving a bribe.
The 2019 UTME commenced on April 11 to April 18 with 1.8 million registered candidates.
JAMB says the screening of the results would soon be over and the result released.
The report had claimed that scores of candidates who sat for the UTME and were found wanting by the board ...
Mr Oloyede said no results will be released until all the recordings on the CCTV installed across the over 700 ...
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Two children of an examination centre owner were also arrested.
Over 1.8 million candidates are expected to sit for the board’s ongoing UTME that commenced nationwide on April 11.
The union has asked its members to assemble for a march to the police station.
Hundreds of students nationwide would have to miss one of the examinations.
The police speak on alleged attack on JAMB staffers.
Over 157,000 candidates are writing the mock examination on Monday.
“Just like the main UTME, candidates are expected to adhere strictly to all the rules guiding the test," JAMB says.
“There is no other attendance register apart from the biometric verification."
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