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JAMB To Release 1.3m UTME Results Today

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2018 UTME (Photo credit: Dailypost)

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it will on Monday (today), release over 1.3 million results of candidates that sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination after subjecting the results to necessary security checks.

The JAMB spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made the disclosure on Sunday in an interview with Punch.

The JAMB spokesman said, “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.

“Some strange findings that the CCTV has showed 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.”

He also disclosed the board has concluded arrangements to conduct the UTME for candidates who are physically challenged.

“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),” he added.

As earlier reported by Naija News, JAMB had directed candidates who sat for the 2018 UTME, to visit its website to view their results.