The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given more
insight on why the results of 111,981 candidates that sat for this
year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), were withheld.
JAMB has released several batches of results, but some candidates were yet to see theirs.
The Board’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian Benjamin, speaking with Premium Times, gave following reasons:
“There were candidates who went into the examination halls with
materials that were banned. Telephone handsets and other materials were
found on some of them”.
“There were even candidates who attempted to change the IP addresses of the computer systems assigned to them.”
“There are centres that colluded with candidates. Maybe their owners
collected monies from the candidates and were dictating answers”.
Benjamin said he was not sure the results of the affected candidates
would be released, adding that the release of the results “depends on
the outcomes of the investigations. We are being fair and diligent in
the screening to ensure injustice is not done to anyone”.
The 2018 UTME ended on Saturday, March 17, 2018.
