Kuni Tyessi in Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced the discharge of further 531 outcomes of candidates who sat within the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The launched outcomes have been among the many over 64,000 outcomes JAMB had withheld over suspected examination infractions.
The event has now taken the whole variety of outcomes launched up to now to 1,842,897.
The board, in an announcement, yesterday, by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, stated it was trying into circumstances of unverified candidates and would quickly provide you with a place.
The assertion learn: “As promised, the Board is continuing with the screening of over 64,000 withheld outcomes. It has, nonetheless, launched further 531 outcomes taking the whole variety of outcomes launched to 1,842,897.
“In the middle of the train, different circumstances of examination misconduct have been additionally established to make a tally of 92 from the 81 initially found. The Board can also be circumstances of unverified candidates and would quickly provide you with a place.
“Equally, the eye of the JAMB has been drawn to some fallacious publications purporting that an unknown candidate, who didn’t sit the Board’s 2024 UTME, obtained scores.
“That is pretend, malicious and a calculated try to undermine the integrity of the Board. The general public is urged to ignore such irresponsible publications.
“To underscore the truth that the publication is crafted by mischief makers to color the Board in unhealthy mild, the publication, which ranges such a grievous allegation, has no particulars of the candidate for correct verification.
“The Board is just not shocked as that is the season of mischief makers, who would need to deceive gullible candidates. The examination template of the Board is designed with the best sense of accountability and isn’t an allocation platform the place scores are doled out to candidates.
“It’s most unlucky that anyone might even consider such narration or that the story might even acquire traction given the Board’s integrity. This once more has gone to additional vindicate the Board’s stance that candidates ought to desist from disclosing their categorized particulars to 3rd events.
“In investigating a few of these allegations, the Board found that a few of these mischief makers copy outcomes despatched to different candidates, edit the main points despatched to themselves after which parade this as emanating from the Board.
“The Board challenges any candidate, mum or dad or anyone with such a declare or data to show it incorrect by coming ahead with the main points of such claims and the cellphone quantity with which such outcomes have been conveyed.
“The angle of those mischief makers would solely propel the Board to additional tighten the method of checking its outcomes to make it extra customized and certain could be stringent when it ought to really be a easy and easy train.”
The Board reiterated that neither its outcomes nor any of its processes had been compromised, noting that therefore, it’ll proceed to guard the integrity of its methods in opposition to such malicious actors, who’re hell-bent on creating confusion the place none existed.
“Consequently, the Board is primed to including extra options like registration quantity to the prevailing UTME End result checking course of going ahead to make it additional troublesome for anyone to edit.
“Candidates are, subsequently, urged to securely preserve their particulars safe for if they’re discovered associating with any of those mischievous components, they’d be handled as collaborators.
“For now, the strategy of checking the 2024 UTME stays sending UTMERESULT to 55019 or 66019 and never via some other course of. The consequence, in the meanwhile, is just not on the Board’s web site,” JAMB stated.
