The Joint and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released an additional 531 results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), bringing the total number of results released to 1,842,897.
As promised, the Board has proceeded with the screening of
over 64,000 withheld results.
Also, in the course of the exercise, other cases of
examination misconduct were also established to make a tally of 92 from the 81
initially discovered.
According to a press statement by JAMB Public Communication
Advisor (PCA), Dr. Fabian Benjamin, on Tuesday, the Board said it was also
looking at cases of unverified candidates and would soon come up with a
position.
Similarly, the Board’s attention was also drawn to some
fallacious publications, purporting that an unknown candidate, who did not sit
for the Board’s 2024 UTME, obtained scores.
It described the reports as fake, malicious and a calculated
attempt to undermine the integrity of the Board, urging the public to disregard
such irresponsible publications.
“To underscore the fact that the publication is crafted by
mischief makers to paint the Board in bad light, the publication, which levels
such a grevious allegation, has no details of the candidate for proper
verification.
“The Board is not surprised as this is the season of
mischief makers, who would want to deceive gullible candidates. The examination
template of the Board is designed with the highest sense of responsibility and
is not an allocation platform where scores are doled out to candidates. It is
most unfortunate that anybody could even believe such narration or that the
story could even gain traction given the Board’s integrity.
“This again has gone to further vindicate the Board’s stance
that candidates should desist from disclosing their classified details to
third-parties.
“In investigating some of these allegations, the Board
discovered that some of these mischief makers copy results sent to other
candidates, edit the details sent to themselves and then parade this as
emanating from the Board,” the statement added.
The Board further challenged any candidate, parent or anyone
with such a claim or information to prove it wrong by coming forward with the
details of such claims and the phone number with which such results were
conveyed.
“The attitude of these mischief makers would only propel the
Board to further tighten the process of checking its results to make it more
personalized and sure would be stringent when it should actually be a simple
and straightforward exercise,” he stated.
Consequently, the Board said it was primed to adding more
features like registration number to the existing UTME Result checking process
going forward to make it extra difficult for anybody to edit.
Candidates were, therefore, urged to keep their details
secure, for if they are found associating with any of these mischievous
elements, they would be treated as collaborators.
For now, it noted that the method of checking the 2024 UTME
remains sending ‘UTMERESULT’ to 55019 or 66019 and not through any other
process, while reiterating that the result, at the moment, was not available on
the Board’s website.
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