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  • Just In: JAMB releases date for 2020 UTME

    Just In: JAMB releases date for 2020 UTME

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has fixed March 14 for the commencement of the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination.

    The examination according to the board will be between March 14 and April 4.

    The JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting on Monday in Abuja, where he met with Commissioners for Education from the 36 states.

    The Registrar said the registration for the UTME would start on January 13 and end on February 17.

    Details to follow…

  • JAMB generates N20bn in 3 years

    JAMB generates N20bn in 3 years

    Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says the board has generated N20 billion from University and Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) between 2016 and 2019.

    He made the disclosure during a two-day meeting with Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre Operators, State Coordinators of the Board, Financial Institutions and Internet Service Providers on Thursday in Zaria, Kaduna State.

    The meeting, which was held at Kongo Conference Hotel, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), aimed at deliberating on issues affecting the board and way forward.

    Oloyede urged CBT centre operators not to worry about their investments while transacting business with the board as long as they were doing their work in accordance with the agreed registration and examination guidelines.

    “You have nothing to fear and you should know that, if you put your investments together, it can’t be up to N20bn and we have accrued N20bn in three years as an agency.

    “As an aency of government, we have to ensure that small and medium scale businesses thrive and if you multiply 11 staff by 700, you will know better.

    “We are also adding value to the economy and job creation out of your employment market and we will continue to support you once you are doing your work well,” he assured.

    Oloyede said the board also announced its readiness to deploy drone cameras to all the identified 700 examination centres to check any activity that could jeopardise the efforts of the board from being a transparent agency of government it was known for.

    The Registrar directed that: “All CCTV must be wired, all cameras must cover verification areas, coding areas, walk ways, examination hall, server room and entrance and exit in all centres.

    “We will use drones to monitor the centres to check registration and examination scandals.”

    In the area of prosecution of those caught in the past, he said: “100 candidates caught red-handed are under prosecution – 20 jailed and 80 others are under investigation.

    “Last year was for the prosecution of candidates. By the grace of God, it is the urn of CBT centres to be prosecuted. If you do work well, it will reduce the cost of running from one court to the other,” he pleaded.

  • JAMB vows not to register candidates without NIN for 2020 UTME

    JAMB vows not to register candidates without NIN for 2020 UTME

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has declared only candidates with the National Identity Number (NIN) will be registered for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

    In its twitter handle, JAMB said on Thursday: “All candidates wishing to take the 2020 UTME must have the National Identification Number (NIN). Prospective candidates are urged to visit the nearest @nimc_ng office for their capturing.

    “The Board would ONLY register candidates with NIN.”

    Details shortly…

  • JAMB arrests another candidate for allegedly ‘upgrading’ UTME score

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has arrested a 19-year-old female candidate, Rejoice Mordi, for allegedly falsifying her 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) score from 164 to 264.

    Mordi was arrested in Abuja on Tuesday following an invitation by the board to its headquarters in Bwari.

    The father of the teenager, Frank Emordi, had petitioned the board for issuing her daughter two separate results from the same examination.

    The board recalled that upon receipt of the complaint, it invited the candidate to appear before it.

    JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, stated this in a statement yesterday in Abuja.

    Benjamin said the candidate confessed before the board that she got the fake UTME result from an agent, identified simply as IyanuOluwa, through a WhatsApp message and she wanted to see that it was changed on her UTME portal.

    According to Benjamin, the candidate from Delta State explained that she met the agent who collected her registration number and those of three other candidates.

    “The agent later sent a fake UTME result to Mordi’s phone,” Benjamin said in the statement.

    He added that the candidate had been handed over to “security agents for further interrogation aimed at revealing her collaborators”.

    The statement added: “The 19-year-old, who falsified her 2019 UTME result from 164 to 264, had petitioned for giving her two results in the 2019 UTME. The board, upon receipt of the complaint, invited the candidate who appeared before the board in company of her father, Frank Emordi.

    “The Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, read the riot act to the petitioner and her father and gave them a grace period to retrace their steps, knowing that there is forensic analysis that she falsified the score.

    “Upon the expiration of the opportunity, after a thorough examination of the evidences, the candidate owned up to her misdeeds. She said the agent sent the inflated result to her through a WhatsApp group, which she had deleted.

    “Checks by the board revealed that the candidate had made three successful attempts at checking her result. However, on the candidate’s dashboard, 164 score still remained. She had since been handed over to the security agents for further interrogation.”

    The candidate’s father appealed to the registrar for clemency.

    He said: “I talked to her (Rejoice) and she said a guy she met at the centre collected her registration number and three of her friends’. The man was the one who forwarded the results to them through WhatsApp. If she had informed me about that, I would not have followed her to the JAMB office.”

  • There is a sponsored campaign against JAMB – Oloyede

    Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), said that he was sure of a sponsored campaign against the efforts of the board.
    Oloyede said this on Thursday in Abuja while presenting another suspect to newsmen, Kokowa Cletus, a 20-year-old, who allegedly falsified his Unified Tertiary Admissions Examination (UTME) result.
    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the board had on June 24, presented a 19-year-old Adah Eche, who allegedly falsified his UTME result, yet wrote a letter of complaint to the board for presenting him with two results.
    The registrar frowned at the fraudulent trend, saying that it was unfortunate that the board was making efforts to serve the public yet it was being discouraged by detractors.
    “This is especially when cases that were meant to be investigated were not appropriately done.
    “We believe that there is an organised and sponsored campaign against JAMB for whatever reason.
    “We have no apology, but will want the public, who might be misinformed to always know the situation at hand and the gravity of what we do.
    “This campaign going on against JAMB is done by people who knowingly or unknowingly, are inadvertently employed to do this.
    “At the appropriate time, we will come out to tell the people what is really going on but there is a personal war, you will see that soon,’’ he said.
    He noted that many of such campaigns were done through complaints of the board issuing out double results to candidates who sat for the 2019/20 UTME among other complains.
    Oloyede said that some of the people who make the claims are aware of the Nigerian factor where most accusations were not properly investigated before undergoing public judgements.
    The registrar said instead they preferred to go elsewhere to cry foul instead of approaching the board.
    He said Cletus was invited to the board’s headquarters from Bayelsa, after he wrote a complaint to the board for issuing him two results and subsequently he was apprehended.
    “He came with his uncle who fortunately, is an army officer and we investigated the matter together before the members of the board.
    “He presented two results; one was 206 and the other was 162.
    “We found details of transactions on his phone between him and the syndicate, including a video on how to process result upgrade and negotiations were made on the phone too.
    “There was also a screenshot of an imposition result of 206, yet, he had the guts to claim that JAMB sent him two results while we also discovered that he checked the results 15 times via `55109’, Oloyede added.
    The registrar explained that the suspect did not know that once a result has been checked, a copy was being sent to the candidate, another was copied back to the board with the date and time of check.
    He also narrated how the father of the suspect had written a letter to the board, expressing disappointment at the board’s incompetence.
    Oloyede quoted the letter as saying, “your inability in swift response to address the issue has led to my son’s forfeiture of his Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) admission opportunity.
    “However, am craving your indulgence to quickly rectify the result in affirmative to enable him have a good chance for the second choice of the institution.’’
    The registrar said that the board would stop at nothing to expose the syndicates working against it, noting that about 80 of such cases were already being prosecuted nationwide.
    He assured that others would be apprehended in no time, adding that the board would have to focus on admissions process for now.
    According to him, the suspect’s result will not be cancelled but be invalidated, while he will be handed over to the police to face the law.
    The suspect told newsmen that his parents would be disappointed at his actions.
    He said that he did not believe his original result was a reflection of his performance and so, decided to approach the board for a proof.
    This, he explained, was because he thought he did better than 162 as the UTME questions he answered were not so difficult believing that the second result is not his.
    “Someone sent an mail to me saying that they can upgrade my result, so I asked them to send me a proof that they could do it and they sent me 206.
    “The person now asked me to pay N10,000 but I told him I didn’t have that kind of money, he then promised to make things hard for me.
    “When I checked later via `55109’, I got 162, then I decided to complain to JAMB to know if my scores were actually changed or not,’’ he said.
    Cletus said that he knew upgrading scores was a criminal offence and did not expect the syndicate to be successful, yet he believed that it was JAMB that sent the 206 result to him and wanted to be sure.

  • JAMB nabs UTME candidate who 'upgraded' score from 162 to 206

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has again apprehended a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Cletus Kokowa for upgrading his score from 162 to 206 with the help of a fraudster.
    Kokowa becomes the second candidate to be apprehended by the board following that of Adah Eche who was nabbed last month for similar offence.
    Kokowa confessed before management of the the board on Thursday that he was asked to pay N10,000 for the upgrading.
    The board told reporters that the candidate with Registration Number 95329290ED from Bayelsa State, contacted the syndicate through a Whatsapp group a few weeks ago where they told him that they could upgrade his score from 162.
    It explained that fraudsters later sent a fake result screenshot to Kokowa, stating that his score was now 206.
    When the result, however, remained unchanged on the JAMB site, Kokowa’s father, Garen Kokowa, wrote a letter of complaint to the board asking for the rectification of his son’s scores.
    In the letter of complaint addressed to the JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, the suspect’s father wrote, “Your inability for swift response to address the issue has led to my son’s forfeiture of his Nigerian Defence Academy admission opportunity.
    “However, I am craving for your indulgence to quickly rectify the result in affirmative to enable him have a good stand for his second choice of institution.”
    The board thereafter invited Kokowa to come with the two results as proof, after which he confessed on Thursday to have employed a syndicate.
    His uncle, an army officer, who declined to give his name, accompanied Kokowa to the JAMB headquarters.
    The boy was afterwards handed over to the NSCDC officers.
    Kokowa said, “Those guys sent a mail to me that they could help me to upgrade my score. I then sent them my Registration number and e-mail. When the results were out and I checked, they showed me 206. Then, one of them called me asking me to pay them the money.
    “I later went to check and I found 162. I was confused. I had heard that upgrading scores was an offence but I didn’t really believe it. I did not tell my daddy and my uncle about the syndicate.”
    The JAMB Registrar, Oloyede, said the board would ensure the arrest and prosecution of candidates discovered to have involved in fraudulent practices before, during and after the examination.

  • Despite anomalies: JAMB board chairman rates 2019 UTME high

    Despite anomalies: JAMB board chairman rates 2019 UTME high

    Dr Emmanuel Ndukwe, Chairman, Governing Board, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has described the process and the conduct of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as credible.

    Ndukwe’s appraisal was contained in the board’s weekly bulletin (Vol. 1, No 26) made available on Sunday in Abuja.

    He adjudged the exercise as the best in terms of administration and the level of technology deployed, even as he commended the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede and his management team for delivering ‘credible and world-class assessment’.

    The board chairman said that the delay in the release of results was deliberate, saying that it was meant to ensure that candidates involved in examination malpractices did not parade illicit results.

    “The 2019 UTME was a remarkable exercise.

    “I moved round to monitor the registration exercise across selected centres in the country with view to making sure that the policy of the Federal Government for creating access and equal opportunity to all candidates was not subverted.

    Ndukwe also said that the tour round the computer-based test (CBT) centres was to ensure strict compliance with the government’s directives on the reduction of application and registration fees.

    While describing the tour as rewarding and revealing, he said it afforded the examination body to take drastic measures against erring centres.

    He added that the close monitoring and supervision by the board had exposed criminal syndicates who were involved in multiple registrations and other forms of infractions.

    This, he explained, resulted in the delay in the release of results, adding that the thorough investigations carried out by the board led to the apprehension, prosecution and conviction of some of the criminals, to serve as deterrent to others.

    The chairman also expressed satisfaction with the board’s complete change from analogue to digital and sophisticated regimen.

    He said he was elated at the management of both human and material resources by the board, noting that JAMB had, in the last three years, remitted over N20 billion to the Federal Government coffers.

    Ndukwe said that the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) of the examination was a beautiful innovation that had been automated to help in the admission process.

    He advised heads of tertiary institutions to ask pertinent questions, where necessary, on pending admissions awaiting approval.

    The chairman assured that the registrar would continue to monitor the entire process to ensure that the system was not compromised in anyway.

  • JUST IN: JAMB withdraws 2019 UTME results of four candidates [Names Attached]

    JUST IN: JAMB withdraws 2019 UTME results of four candidates [Names Attached]

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results of four candidates.

    The candidates include: Adah Eche with Registration Number 97512230IB, Taiwo Abisola Omowumi with Registration Number 97049254GG, Vincent Onyinyechi Prisca with Registration Number 96531098BC and Sofodun Afolasade Zainab with Registration Number 96634599GA.

    JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.

    He said the four candidates were found by the board to have been involved in an attempt to fake JAMB result.

    “The Board therefore withdraws and invalidates the results of the four candidates found to have been involved in the illicit attempt to fake JAMB result.

    “No effort would be spared in identifying and sanctioning any candidate who attempts to falsify results of JAMB-organised examinations (UTME and others) and whoever collaborates or patronizes such candidates would also face similar consequence,” the statement said.

    Eche was apprehended on Monday by the board for being in possession of a fake UTME result.

    He had attempted to upgrade his original UTME score of 153 to 290 with the help of a professional examination fraudster.

    According to JAMB, apart from being in possession of a fake UTME result, he was also working with the above name candidates to have their scores inflated as well.

    Meanwhile, the board said it has released the results of 3, 736 who have been cleared of any infraction.

    According to Benjamin, the candidates whose results have been released are those who were invited and appeared at eight centres listed by the board.

    He said that after an interaction with the board’s Intelligence Committee to ascertain their culpability or otherwise in some discovered examination infraction, their results were released.

    “Consequently, 3,736 candidates who were found to be either free of any blame or entitled to the benefit of the doubt, have their results processed for release. The 3, 736 results are now released,” the statement added.

  • JAMB reassures Bwari Area Council of impactful development

    JAMB reassures Bwari Area Council of impactful development

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reassured Bwari Area Council of its commitment towards an impactful development that would improve the council.

    The Registrar of the board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, gave the assurance when a team of the council’s administration, led by the Chairman, Mr John Gabaya, visited the board’s Headquarters on Wednesday in Abuja.

    Oloyede, while pledging the council’s administration his cooperation and support, also said that the fact that the board’s headquarters was situated in the town showed that the Federal Government had the indigenes of the council at heart.

    He said: “We are not just here for the writing of examinations alone but for the development of our immediate environment.

    “We started the process of developing some areas with the past administration, some of which was how to rehabilitate the town roads and getting the youths engaged in sporting activities by upgrading the township stadium.

    “We were at the point of meeting with the FCT Minister on these issues before the former chairman left because we laid some conditions on ground concerning the stadium, that once upgraded, will be used for only sporting and nothing more.

    “This is also because of the amount of money we intend to put on the development because, we believe that after the stadium is complete, there will be a ripple effect, it should be able to attract people here for more sport events.

    “However, we will continue to work with you on that so that we improve the society as well as our economy.”

    The registrar also noted that the board had sent out some of its staff who were experienced teachers to help out at three government schools in the area in order to re-evaluate and identify their needs in the schools.

    He said that the practice was also to further develop the school, while adding that the board further rehabilitated some of the school’s structures in the process.

    According to him, the board was considering recruiting 12 staff from some local government areas of the country and Bwari area council already had two slots from the list.

    “We are doing our best to making sure that we are sensitive to our environment and I assure you that whenever you need our support, we are here for you,” he said.

    Earlier, the Chairman of the council, Mr John Gabaya said that the meeting became necessary for his administration to get acquainted with the board and vice-versa.

    Gabaya, while appreciating the board for its continuous support to the council, also called for the inclusion of indigenes of the area into federal parastatals and agencies such as JAMB.

    “Most times, where our people gain employment are either the Area council or the Local Education Authority (LEA). We will really appreciate it if some of our indigenes get jobs in some of your branch offices.

    “We are not mandating you but appealing because our people need it.”

  • JAMB nabs 19-year-old over alleged result falsification

    JAMB nabs 19-year-old over alleged result falsification

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday evening paraded one Adah Eche, a 19-year-old admission seeker who allegedly falsified his Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result.

    Prof.Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB’s Registrar, paraded the suspect before newsmen at the board’s Headquarters in Bwari, Abuja.

    Oloyede said that the suspect, who sat for the 2019 UTME scored 153, but decided to connive with an examination syndicate who allegedly increased his scores.

    He explained that the suspect was apprehended after a delegation of Public Complaints Commission paid the board a visit following various complaints by aggrieved candidates who sat for the 2019 UTME.

    “We decided to pick three out of the complainants to address their issues and he happened to be the first person we picked and he actually wrote a letter of complaint to us knowingfully well that he faked his result.

    “What we did was invite him to come and pick his admission letter and he came.

    “Now, what such people do not know is that we have a barcode for every result which helps us verify its authenticity, but this fake one has the barcode of a supermarket and was saying invalid barcode on our own platform.

    “We have checked our own platform and seen where he has checked his result three consecutive times via 55019 and was replied same with his original result which is 153, yet he insists that he did not know the one with 290 was fake,” he said.

    Oloyede further explained that the suspect confessed to the crime after many evidences were discovered from his phone and another on his computer where he faked 200 score for himself first, before upgrading it to 290.

    He also said that the fake result had an imposed ‘55019’ as the sender of the result.

    According to him, a trail of transactions where the suspect collected money from others and sent to his counterpart for the upgrade of UTME scores was discovered on a whatsapp platform on his phone.

    “He was collecting money from others, we have the transactions on his phone where some send N5000, seeking assistance and sending him their registration number, email addresses and all necessary details to help upgrade their scores.

    “These are the same people who cry foul saying they didn’t see their results or they didn’t sit for the examination yet have scores.

    “These people do not know we have installed features that help us track all these things that is why we insist that aggrieved candidates should come to us with the proof and credentials and we will sort this out, yet they refuse,” he said.

    The Registrar said that the board’s website “www.jamb.org” had a platform where people could lodge in their complaints and the board was working on a daily basis to ensure that the issues were responded to at all cost.

    “So far, we have treated 36,275 tickets that were raised from the platform, 36,247 have been closed and we have just 28 issues that were yet to be resolved.

    ” For instance, today alone, we had 143 queries out of which we treated 118, only 25 have not been treated.

    ” We continue to ask that all issues should be raised online and we will treat these on a daily basis, yet people prefer to gatecrash,” he said.

    Oloyede said the suspect would be handed over to the police, and the board, would track and also apprehend others involved in the illicit act.

    The suspect, Adah Eche, who said that he wrote his UTME at Veritas University Centre, Bwari, also said that he was writing the examination for the first time.

    According to him, his result was delayed and was not released on time, so he posted on Facebook that he had not seen his and another Facebook user decided to assist him to get the result.

    ” I have never met the man before but he promised to assist me get the result and he asked me to send him N2000 which I did and he sent the result to me via Whatsapp.

    “He later asked me to send N3000 so that he can submit the result for me but after I did, he never picked my calls again, he blocked me on whatsapp and later, his number was not connecting.

    ” I didn’t know it was a fake result, he also asked me to inform others and let them send money so that he could help them do the upgrade too, that’s why those transactions are there.

    ” I didn’t know one could write the examination more than once or else, I would not have tried this or I would have used the 153 to seek for admission in the polytechnic, but it was the man that convinced me.

    ” My advice to others is that they should stop such illicit acts, there’s no such thing as JAMB upgrade .”