The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
has released 450,000 results of candidates who sat for its Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME).
A statement signed by JAMB’s Head of Public
Affairs, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the board also debunked reports that it had
cancelled some results of the examination held on March 14, 16 and 17 respectively.
He urged members of the public to disregard such
fake news and always crosscheck information provided in the media.
Benjamin explained that the board was aware of some
malicious moves by some fraudulent individuals trying to manipulate the results
of the first day placed on the JAMB’s website with the aim to “deceive
unsuspecting candidates.”
He said the attempted manipulation of the results
informed the board's decision to move it to the mobile platform for candidates
to use their unique phone numbers used in registering for the examination to
access their results.
Candidates are urged to check their results by
sending ‘RESULT’ to 55019 and not on the board website.
The 2020 UTME examination exercise commenced on
March 14 and is expected to end on April 4, as over 1.9 million candidates
registered for this year’s computer-based test across the country.
According to fact sheet, this year’s UTME has the
highest number of registered candidates in the history of the Board since its
establishment in 1978.
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