JAMB To Release 1.3 Million UTME Results Today

At least 1.3 million results of candidates the that sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would be released today, Monday.

This was according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which this known through its spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday.

“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,” Benjamin told Punch.

“Some strange findings that the CCTV has shown 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.”

The JAMB spokesperson equally revealed ongoing plans by the Board to conduct the examinations for physically challenged candidates.

“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),” said Mr Benjamin.