JAMB Releases 57,000 Results of the Computer Based UTME Test Held on Saturday

More than 57,000 results of students who participated in Saturday's UTME have been released by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board.

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the result of the Computer Based Test of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, for the 57,000 candidates that wrote the examination on Saturday, Vanguard reported.

This was disclosed on Monday by the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede. He said that the results of over 57,000 candidates had been released.

He also said that the examination could not go on at the Lagos State University of Technology, LAUTECH because of the ongoing strike in the institution, saying that if the strike was not called off by today (Monday), the authorities of JAMB will have no other option than to relocate the candidates to University of Ilorin which he said was the nearest centre from Ogbomosho.

It has also been revealed that racketeers have allegedly duped some of the candidates by selling fake examination questions they tagged, ‘origi’ for N200,000 which JAMB latter discovered that the questions were the JAMB questions in 1984.

Meantime, security operatives have arrested one of the “candidates”in Aba, Abia state for allegedly attacking the JAMB officials that prevented him from gaining entry into the exam centre.

JAMB extends UTME registration, examination

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB) has announced the extension of registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by two weeks.

The examination body also postponed the UTME exam till 13th and 20th of May.
JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede had on Wednesday insisted that there will be no shift in registration.

According to him, the target was to register 1.4 million candidates for the UTME and reiterated that no candidate would be left out of the registration process.

His words: “No candidate will be left unattended to at the closing of this exercise. You do not want me to extend just for the sake of extension because I monitor on my screen.

“​That is why there is a difference between the closing date for registration and the closing date for sale. By the time we sell, we will know how many that have bought but have not registered.”

JAMB: UTME registration suspended from April 7-10

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suspended registration as from 7-10 of April.
JAMB, however, assured Nigerians especially the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) candidates and their parents that all hands are on deck to ensure the smooth conduct of this year’s UTME exercise.

A statement by JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, on Friday reiterated that the interest of the candidates is foremost to the Board and there is no need for any apprehension regarding the purchase of forms and registration for the examinations.

It reads in full: “It is our commitment as a responsive and responsible body to ensure that no willing candidate is left out and if there is a need to extend the registration deadline, the needful will be done.

“Meanwhile, Saturday April 8th, 2017 has been set aside for the Mock UTME. To seamlessly achieve this, the Board has SUSPENDED all activities relating to the registration exercise in ANY CBT centre from 8pm today being Friday 7thof April, 2017 and to resume on Monday 10THof April, 2017.

“This is to notify the candidates and the concerned stakeholders that there will be no sale of forms, registration and biometric capturing at the various centres in which the Mock Examinations are taking place.

‘This however does not preclude any candidate from going to Banks, NIPOST, interswitch or Remita to procure pins for registration on Monday.

This is to prevent any disruption of the process and conduct of the mock examination.

“The Mock Examinations for interested candidates taking place Saturday 8thApril, 2017 is intended to familiarise our candidates with the CBT systems and generally forecast the challenges that may be faced ahead in order to proactively address them.

“It is just a rehearsal for us and candidates who want to experience the situation to expect during the actual examinations.

“Therefore, the sale of forms, registration and biometrics at CBT Centres are to be suspended from 8:00 p.m. today till Monday, April 10, 2017.

This notice is for the strict adherence of our officers and partners throughout the Federation.

“While wishing the candidates and officials participating in the examination a successful mock exercise, we once again re-assure the candidates that there is no need for worry or anxiety.

“The next one week we believe is sufficient to capture the remaining candidates as about 1,000,000 applicants have successful registered.

“However, as stated earlier, no one will be left behind as the deadline may be extended if there are applicants who do not succeed at registering due to circumstances beyond their control.

“The Board sincerely regrets all inconveniences and state its resolved to work tirelessly to change the fortune of education in Nigerian”.