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  • Electronic transmission of election results not mandatory – APC

    Electronic transmission of election results not mandatory – APC

    The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says there is no law making it mandatory for INEC to transmit electoral results electronically.

    Mr. Dele Alake, Special Adviser on Media and Communications at the PCC made the declaration in Abuja on Friday when he spoke at a news conference.

    Alake said the transmission of election results was at the discretion of INEC.

    According to him, the Electoral Act 2022 does not contain any mandatory provision regarding the transmission of results.

    “The complaint over electronic transmission of election results is not supported by law.

    “Section 38 of the Electoral Act 2022 relied upon by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) to challenge the result of the Feb. 25 presidential election has nothing to do with transmission of election results.

    “Section 60, sub-section 2 of the Act deals with transmission of results and it is at the discretion of INEC. The Act does not contain any mandatory provision regarding the transmission of results.

    “In any case, the process of transmitting results from polling units, whether real-time, two days later or at any time, cannot in anyway change the results that have been announced,’’ Alake stressed.

    He added that what was important was the counting of votes in the presence of party agents and to the hearing of voters.

    Alake said it was absurd to insinuate that time variation in uploading results would cause a change in the figures.

    “In any case, the process of transmitting results from polling units, whether real time, two days later or at any time, cannot in anyway change the results that have been announced,’’ he said.

    He added that the news conference was to respond to both the candidates of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and that of LP, Mr Peter Obi, following their recent statements as regards the election results.

    He described the efforts by the PDP, the LP and the NNPP to approach the court over the election results as a welcome development.

    “We must thank them for finally opting for the rule of law as against the initial belligerent posture as they continue their baseless journey of chasing after a mirage.

    “Those that lay claim to democratic credentials are expected to be conscious of those inimitable minimum requirements of law and order, even in the face of perceived injustice.

    “The initial knee-jerk and hothead call for anarchy by their proxies was ill-advised and would in no way serve any noble cause. It is good to know that reason has prevailed.

    “We welcome the decision by the PDP, the LP and also the NNPP candidates to test their claims as ridiculous as they are in the court of law as provided for by the Constitution,’’ Alake said.

    He said listening to Atiku and Obi at their different news conferences, left the APC family confounded.

    “As we all can see, these two otherwise experienced politicians are pinpointing lack of adherence to the guidelines as basis for discrediting the votes lawfully cast by Nigerians.

    “We shall examine the so-called process that was purportedly breached by the electoral body and how it, in their wild imagination, undermined the credibility of the election.

    “The claim that INEC did not use the BVAS is false; those who voted across Nigeria, including Atiku and Obi, were accredited by BVAS,’’ Alake said.

    He added that except for bad losers, stakeholders should rather be celebrating the tremendous improvement the use of BVAS had brought to the electoral process instead of discrediting the election.

    He said that 2023 presidential election was a watershed as it produced unprecedented outcomes and defied conventions.

    According to him, the deployment and use of BVAS is the only reason the elections produced strange outcomes and upsets in many cases.

    “The loss of Katsina and Lagos states to the PDP and the LP respectively, were contrary to expectations.

    “BVAS brought the intended credibility to voters’ accreditation such that many governors and well-established politicians lost elections in what should be safe bet areas.

    “The era of ghost-voting and stuffing of ballot boxes is gone. As the experience in the last governorship election in Osun has shown.

    “Over-voting would automatically lead to outright cancellation of the results of the polling units based on the provision of the new Electoral Act,’’ he stressed.

    Alake said the same PDP trying to pull the wool across the face of Nigerians was the culprit in the Osun governorship election.

    He added that contrary to the false claims of Atiku and Obi, the reasons for losing the elections were foretold.

    “Besides the delusional expectations created during the campaigns to hoodwink the public, most PDP leaders knew their party had been decimated by Obi.

    “The Southeast and South-South that were traditional strongholds of the PDP constituted the core support base for the LP.

    “The PDP went into the election without its limbs and lied to itself that it could win the race.

    “It is worthy of note that Atiku also accepted this fact during his press conference, when he lamented that his party’s votes in the Southeast and South-South were carted away by the LP,’’ Alake noted.

  • Elections: Attempt to collate and announce unreconciled results is a recipe for chaos – SMBLF cautions

    Elections: Attempt to collate and announce unreconciled results is a recipe for chaos – SMBLF cautions

    Members of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) have declared that the present attempt to ‘collate and announce unreconciled results’ – which are products of suspicious process breach will be tantamount to Electoral manipulation, a recipe for chaos and destabilization.

    The zonal groups disclosed this in a statement jointly signed by all leaders late Monday stating that:

    “We commend the Nigerian people especially the youths for their uncommon demonstration of patriotism. The zeal to salvage their country Nigeria through a peaceful, democratic election is unsurpassed.

    “They showed exceptional courage against all odds in order to exercise their civic responsibility. They endured long hours stretching into the wee hours of the morning in the queue, to vote and to ensure their votes are not only counted but also matter.

    “They withstood voter intimidation, suppression and violence to exercise their constitutional rights. We salute the young woman who in spite of severe injuries she sustained to her face returned very gallantly to vote for the candidate of her choice.

    ” We feel very constrained, in spite of the commendable progress in the evolutionary process in the consolidation of our democracy, to note with concern the egregious and unacceptable conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the conduct, transmission & collation of the various results of the election across the Nation

    Read full statement below:

    “We, the Members of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) have over the years, and especially in the run-up to the 2023 Presidential election in Nigeria, insisted on an inclusive Nigeria that embraces all ethnic, religious, linguistic, gender and demographic groups and especially the youths of the country.

    Our vision of a Nigerian Federation is firmly anchored on the cardinal democratic principles of the rule of law, equality, equity, fairness and justice. It was in recognition of these principles that we adopted Mr. Peter Obi and his running mate, Mr. Ahmed Datti of the Labour Party as embodiments of these very lofty aspirations.

    The hopes for a new Nigeria have been so eloquently expressed not only in the continuous voter registration process which saw the largest numbers of youth registration but also the largest voter turn-out in the history of elections in the country.

    “We commend the Nigerian people especially the youths for their uncommon demonstration of patriotism. The zeal to salvage their country Nigeria through a peaceful, democratic election is unsurpassed.

    “They showed exceptional courage against all odds in order to exercise their civic responsibility. They endured long hours stretching into the wee hours of the morning in the queue, to vote and to ensure their votes are not only counted but also matter.

    “They withstood voter intimidation, suppression and violence to exercise their constitutional rights. We salute the young woman who in spite of severe injuries she sustained to her face returned very gallantly to vote for the candidate of her choice.

    ” We feel very constrained, in spite of the commendable progress in the evolutionary process in the consolidation of our democracy, to note with concern the egregious and unacceptable conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the conduct, transmission & collation of the various results of the election across the Nation.

    “The conduct of INEC on voter inclusivity, security, punctuality, logistics deployments, integrity and compliance to Electoral Act on electronic transmission of results has unfortunately created very serious mistrust between the electorates and INEC casting very serious doubts not only to their status as fair and unbiased umpire but very importantly on the credibility of the results that they are collating and announcing even without uploading most of the Polling Unit Result Sheets to their server as required by law.

    ” Apart from the fact that none of the 176,846 Polling Unit Results was electronically transmitted online real-time, evidences abound of faint Result Sheets uploaded, completely illegible.

    “Video evidences of INEC Officials caught falsifying election results at local collation centres and voters attacked and locked out from voting on grounds of their tribe, religion or party affiliation are numerous in public domain, including destruction of ballots by hoodlums and senior Govt officials while security men watched without acting; under-aged voting, among many infractions that would suggest ill-preparation and/or collusion.

    “There were senior partisan Govt officials interference at INEC Collation Centres to influence results, which could not have been possible had the results been transmitted electronically at the polling units as expected; and all available evidence points to one “favored political party getting away with murder”, thereby denying others ‘level playing field’.

    “We find the Press Statement which the Independent National Electoral Commission issued on Sunday, 26 February, 2023, riddled with gaps which are incongruous with good judgement and reason.

    ” It is indeed jejune to argue that the reason for the gaps is because the servers which were used for off-season state elections were not reconfigured to meet the needs and requirement of the national elections.

    “At the heart of the technological innovation which INEC so proudly proclaimed was the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to accredit voters and uploading of the results from the various Polling Units (PU) to the central Server.

    ” It is very doubtful that the failure of the BVAS to upload only the presidential results to the server is a systems glitch, as INEC would want us to believe. The unfortunate effect, is not only the deep mistrust of the independence and unbiased status of INEC but it has by the very singular misstep cast very serious doubts on its ability to deliver to the country, a free, fair and credible election.

    ” We cannot allow our dreams of a new Nigeria where leaders and its institution of governance are accountable to the people to die of administrative oversight and incompetence.

    “We call on the Nigerian people and the youths who have endured all forms of intimidation and threats to their lives for the sustenance of democracy in the country to demand that votes must count and call on INEC to show incontrovertible evidence that all the votes uploaded to their server and those held by all the party agents tally.

    “We urge the Nigerian people and especially youths to stand in unison to defend the sanctity of their mandate. They must not let their mandate, future and country be taken away from them on account of a convoluted technical sophistry.

    ” We unequivocally request INEC to immediately discontinue the national provocation called “National Collation of Presidential Result”, and retrace her steps back to where the ‘breach of process’ started; which is the real-time transmission of results at the polling units.

    ” Nigerians are ready to return to their Polling units to complete the process by certifying that the same results which copy is with every party Agent is uploaded and collated.

    “Alternatively, all political parties can sit with INEC to reconcile the results and upload them accordingly before any national collation and announcements.

    ” The present attempt to ‘collate and announce unreconciled results’ – which are products of suspicious process breach will be tantamount to Electoral manipulation, a recipe for chaos and destabilization.

    ” Furthermore, adequate security and logistics must be deployed for all the remaining Polling Unit elections, especially for all those areas where non-indigenes were threatened and disenfranchised.

    ” We sincerely thank the teams of International Monitors and Observers, for their presence in our Country at these very important and historic elections.

    “We call on the International Community which they represent to hold INEC accountable for the egregious breaches of the Electoral Law 2022 and any outcomes of the 2023 Presidential Elections in Nigeria.

    “We equally urge the international community to engage and put pressure on the Federal Government of Nigeria to protect the mandate of the Nigerian people which was willingly expressed through a democratic electoral process on Saturday, 25 February, 2023. And to ensure full compliance and rectification of any deviation from the electoral process flow.

    “We remain unequivocally committed to a Nigerian Federation where justice, equity, fairness and equality is enthroned and where no man no matter his ethnicity, religion or party affiliation is oppressed.

    Chief Edwin Clarke, CFR
    Leader Pandef

    Chief Ayo Adabanjo, CON
    Leader Afenifere

    Dr. Bitrus Pogu
    Leader Middle Belt Forum

    Chief Simon Okeke OFR
    Representing Ohanaeze Ndigbo

    HE. Chief (Dr) Chukwuemeka Ezeife – Chairman Igbo Elders Consultative Forum

    Babachir Lawal – Former SGF

    Amb. Okey Emutchay – Secretary General Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

  • Election fallout: APC-PCC raises alarm over alleged plot by LP, PDP to halt announcement of results

    Election fallout: APC-PCC raises alarm over alleged plot by LP, PDP to halt announcement of results

    Nigeria’s new watchdog, APC-PCC has raised alarm the two major opposition political parties in Nigeria, LP and PDP are shopping for court orders to stop INEC from announcing the collation of results by INEC and lead Nigeria into crisis.

    This was contained in a statement signed by the APC -PCC spokesperson, Festus Keyamo, SAN stating that:

    “We have it on good authority that the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party have perfected plans to finally scuttle our democracy and throw the country into constitutional crises by surreptitiously obtaining exparte court orders stopping the announcement of the Presidential Election results which they fear have gone against them.

    “The walk-out they staged today at the National Collation Center is just a precursor to executing the plan.

    “Nigerians would recall that the June 12, 1993 debacle that brought Nigeria to its knees and caused our country international isolation was precipitated by a court injunction stopping the announcement of Presidential Election results.

    “The court order was obtained by a certain Association for Better Nigeria headed then by one Chief Authur Nzeribe. This is exactly what Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr. Peter Obi want to foist on this nation again because of their inordinate ambitions. This is not surprising because both candidates where nowhere to be seen when ASIWAJU was fighting for the democracy we all enjoy today.

    “However, we wish to draw the attention of Nigerians, the Judiciary, and the world to the provisions of section 84 (15) of the Electoral Act which prohibits the grant of injunctions to the stop the holding of elections (which includes the declaration of results). The section states:

    ‘Nothing in this section shall empower the courts to stop the holding of primaries or general elections under this Act pending the determination of a suit.’

    “This has prompted their instructions to their campaign organizations, especially their spokespersons to continue to issue statements, making false claims of ‘victory’ when there is no single scientific basis for such claims.

    ” For instance, as outlandish as some of their claims of manipulation are, they have not pointed at one single presidential election result in any single unit in the whole country where they scored a particular figure with a result sheet duly signed by their agent that was subsequently changed at a Collation Centre.

    “All we hear are sound bites of their spokespersons, huffing and puffing about winning the election just to whip up public sentiments to prepare the ground to reject the results when they are eventually released by INEC.

    “For us our position is very simple and straight forward: we wish to allow the legal process of declaring presidential election results to take place peacefully and in an orderly fashion. ASIWAJU is not desperate, but is very confident of victory.

    “We therefore wish to advice anyone who wishes to aid and encourage these candidates along this infamous part to remember the June 12 debacle. They may also wish to learn a lesson or two from President Muhammadu Buhari who resorted to the court of law in 2003, 2007 and 2011 when same PDP ‘defeated’ him in those presidential elections in controversial circumstances. President Buhari, as a true statesman and democrat, never resorted to underhand tactics to declare himself President.

  • Presidential election results: INEC opens national collation centre, sets ground rules

    Presidential election results: INEC opens national collation centre, sets ground rules

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared open the 2023 General Election National Collation Centre, in Abuja.

    INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, while declaring open the centre also set ground rules for the collation process.

    The rules according to Yakubu includes “ results for each state of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) shall be presented by the State Coalition Officers for the Presidential Election (SCOPE).”

    He said that thereafter he as the Returning Officer for the presidential election, who also doubles as the Chief Electoral Commissioner, would collate and announce the final result.

    “This is a duty that I’m privileged to perform and it will be done here at this place.”

    Other rules according to him, included all accredited agents, observers, the media, the diplomatic community, and security agencies should adhere to the sitting positions assigned to them.

    “On arrival at the collation centre, the SCOPE shall be received at the coalition Secretariat, which shall organise the sequence of presentation.

    “The returning officer shall invite the SCOPE for the presidential election, accompanied by the REC for the presentation of the results.

    “The SCOPE following the format for the presentation of results, shall loudly announce the votes scored by each political party in the state including reports of cancellations and areas where elections did not hold, if any.

    “The returning officer then invites comments and observations, if any, from the polling agents.”

    Yakubu added that the returning officer would request the SCOPE to submit the original copy of form EC8D.

    “When all the SCOPE has presented their results, the returning officer shall display the sealed copies of results sheets EC8DA, which is a summary of results of elections on state by state basis.

    “The EC8E for the Declaration of results for the election, an EC40G3 summary of registered voters in the polling units where elections were either canceled or not held.

    “And I’ll have the privilege of displaying the blank forms before proceeding starts after the receipt of the reports from the various collation officers.

    “Next, the returning officer shall complete the EC8DA and announce the vote scored by each party. And thereafter we’ll invite the polling agents to endorse the forms.”

    Yakubu said that the returning officer then completes the EC40G3G and compares it with form EC8DA to ascertain if any of the candidates had satisfied the requirements of the law to proceed with declaration.

    “If satisfied, the returning officers complete form ECAE and make a declaration of winner.

    “ Finally, the returning officer will invite the agents of political parties to receive duplicate copies of the ECADA and EC8E, which is the final declaration of results.

    Yakubu said that everything regarding the result collation would be done in the open.

    He, however, added that in the event he was unable to brief the media, the National Commissioner on Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, would perform that responsibility.

  • Lagos INEC opens State Collation Centre, says no result yet from LGAs

    Lagos INEC opens State Collation Centre, says no result yet from LGAs

    About 24 hours after the opening of polls in Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos State, no single result from the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) has arrived at the State Collation Centre.

    Prof. Adenike Oladiji, the State Collation Officer and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) disclosed this during the official opening of the centre for final collation of election results in Lagos State at about 12.00 a.m. on Sunday.

    Oladiji, who described the collation as a serious assignment, said that the centre was still awaiting results from all the 20 LGAs as at midnight.

    The professor said: ”This is a serious national assignment that has brought us together here.

    ”It is also an assignment that is of international importance, and that explains why we have international observers here with us.

    ”Our job is simple. If we follow the well laid out procedures of INEC, we know it is very simple and easy.

    ”It is a call to duty, it is a national assignment and we hope that we will not fail our country. As we can all see, the result are not here yet.

    ”So that we wont keep ourselves just waiting expecting the results, we are proposing that we reconvene tomorrow (Sunday) at 10.am.

    ”We know that by that time some of our results will be here and we will be able to process them all in this hall.”

    Earlier in his opening address, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State, who commended the state collation officer, said that collation was at various stages in the state.

    According to Agbaje, at the end, Nigerians will be happy that INEC has done a lot to ensure that people are allowed to vote in spite of few hitches.

    ”We want to assure Nigerians that their votes will count,” the commissioner said.

    The State Collation Centre for the 2023 Presidential Election in Lagos State is situated at INEC Media Centre at the commission’s headquarters in the state.

    The Presidential and NASS elections were held simultaneously across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory on Saturday.

    Journalists, observers among other stakeholders, awaited the commencement of the collation on Sunday.

    Collation of results was still at various stages, some at the registration areas, federal constituency, senatorial district and local government collation centres.

    Some security agents were sighted at the centre.

  • NECO releases 2022 SSCE internal results

    NECO releases 2022 SSCE internal results

    The National Examinations Council (NECO), said over 70 per cent of candidates who sat for the 2022 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE) internal made credit in mathematics and English language.

    The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, said this while announcing the results at its headquarters in Minna on Thursday.

    According to him, the examinations have been adjudged by many stakeholders to be hugely successful in recent years.

    Wushishi said that the results were released exactly 45 days after the examinations were taken.

    The registrar said that certificates for 2022 SSCE (Internal) would be ready three months after the release of results, saying that schools had one month in which to submit complaints (if any).

    He said that the number of candidates that registered for the examination was 1,209,703, with 636,327 males, representing 52.60 per cent and 573,376 females, representing 47.39 per cent.

    The registrar said that 1,198,412, with 630,180 males representing 52.58 per cent and 568,232 females representing 47.41per cent of candidates actually sat for the examinations.

    “The number of candidates with Special Needs is 1,031, with the breakdown as follows: 98 with albinism, 177 with autism, 574 with hearing impairment, and 107 visually impaired.

    “The number of candidates who made Credit and above in English Language is 889,188 representing 74.89 per cent, number of candidates who made Credit and above in Mathematics is 929,140, representing 78.23 per cent.

    “The number of candidates who made five Credits and above including English Language and Mathematics is 727,864, representing 60.74 per cent. When compared to 2021 SSCE (Internal) figures of 878,925 (71.64 per cent) there is a decrease of 10.9 per cent.

    “The number of candidates who made five Credits and above irrespective of English Language and Mathematics is 1,011,457, representing 84.40 per cent. When compared to 2021 SSCE (Internal) figures of 1,153,716 (94.04 per cent), there is a decrease of 9.64 per cent,’’ he said.

    On examination malpractice, Wushishi said that 13,594 candidates were involved in various forms of malpractice in 2022, representing 0.13 per cent.

    He said that 20,003 cases of malpractice were recorded in 2021, representing 1.63 per cent.

    According to him, the council has a long-standing tradition for zero tolerance for malpractice, as this is why the cases of malpractice dropped in 2022, compared to the figure recorded in 2021.

    “Consequent upon the foregoing, four schools were recommended for de-recognition for two years due to their involvement in mass cheating.

    “Also, 29 supervisors were blacklisted for various offences ranging from poor supervision, insult, aiding and abetting during the examinations.’’

    He urged candidates to access their results on NECO website: www.neco gov.ng using their examination registration.

  • UPDATE: WAEC withholds 365,564 WASSCE results over malpractice

    UPDATE: WAEC withholds 365,564 WASSCE results over malpractice

    The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says the results of a total of 365,564 candidates who sat for its 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates have been withheld.

    A total of the 1,607,981 candidates registered for the examination from 20,222  recognised secondary schools across the country, but only 1,601, 047 sat for the test.

    Mr Patrick Areghan, the council’s Head of National Office (HNO), announced details of  the examination results on Monday, in Lagos.

    He said the withheld results related to  various reported cases of examination malpractice.

    According to him, the number of seized results represents 22.83 per cent, making it 11.74 per cent higher than the 10.9 per cent recorded in the same examination diet in 2021.

    Areghan said that the students’ lack of zeal to learn was largely responsible for the development.

    “I will say preparation for examination among our students is taking a serious nose dive, due to over-reliance on the so-called ‘Expo’, which is actually non-existent.

    “Candidates simply got frustrated when they entered the examination hall and discovered that all they had celebrated, was actually fake.

    “This has pitiably led to some of them failing the examination, which if they had relied on themselves and studied hard, would have passed like many others,” he stated.

    The HNO said that the council would continue to sanction all cases of examination malpractice.

    He said that schools, supervisors, teachers and candidates perpetrating the evil act were not helping the education system.

    Areghan said that all hands must be on deck to check the ugly trend.

    He said that the increasing use of cell phones in the examination hall, in spite of the existing ban, and organised cheating in some schools were other nagging issues.

    The WAEC boss said that the examination was also administered to candidates from some schools in Benin Republic, Côte d’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea, where the Nigerian curriculum for senior secondary school was being used.

    Giving a further breakdown of statistics of the results, Areghan said that, of the total 1,601, 047 candidates who sat for the examination, 1,713 of them had varying degrees of special needs.

    “Of the number of candidates with special needs,128 of them were visually challenged, 583 others had impaired hearing and 387 were spastic cum mentally challenged.

    “We also had 12 others who are physically challenged. All these candidates were adequately provided for,  in the administration of the examination.

    “Results of these category of candidates have been processed and are also now being released along with those of other candidates,” he said.

    Speaking further on the result, Areghan said that of the total number that sat for the examination, a total of 1,437,629 candidates representing 89.79 per cent had their results fully processed and released.

    According to him, a total of 163,418 others,  representing 10.21 per cent had a few of their subjects still being processed, due to some issues that are still being resolved.

    He, however, noted that efforts were  being made to speedily complete the processing, to enable all the affected candidates to get their results fully processed and released within the next one week.

    Areghan said that further statistics of candidates’ performance at the examination showed that 1,409, 529 , representing 88.04 per cent obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five subjects, that is, with or without English Language and/or Mathematics.

    According to him, 1,222,505 others, representing 76. 36 per cent who sat  for the examination, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

    He noted that there was a 5.34 per cent decrease in performance, when compared to the 81.70 per cent obtained by candidates in the same category in 2021, in the same examination diet.

    Speaking further, the HNO said that the council’s Digital Security Printing press was set for commissioning.

    According to him, the digital security printing press, which is the first of its kind by the council in Nigeria, is in response to its  growing operational needs.

    “With this digital security printing press, the Nigeria national office will be able to improve its operational efficiency.

    “Also, the much-awaited digital certificate software, which was earlier announced as one of the innovations the council is exploring in its bid to make service delivery more accessible to candidates, is here at last.

    “The project has been completed and it is now set for launch to enable end users enjoy the enormous benefits of the service,” he said.

    Areghan expressed gratitude to the Federal Government, the Ministry of Education, security agencies and other stakeholders, for giving maximum support to the council.

    He said they gave this before, during and after the conduct of the examination, especially in the face of the insecurity in parts of the country.

    The HNO appealed to states that were owing the council registration fees of their candidates to pay up.

    This, he said, would enable such candidates to be able to access their results. The conduct of the WASSCE for school candidates ended on June 3. The examination council released the results exactly 45 days after the last paper.

  • BREAKING: 2022 WASSCE results released

    BREAKING: 2022 WASSCE results released

    The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) results.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the results are for school candidates who sat for the 2022 WASSCE from May 16 to June 23, 2022.

    WAEC’s Head of National Office, Patrick Areghan made this known while speaking at a briefing on Monday.

    Areghan noted that the results of the examination which held for six weeks were released 45 days after the last paper.

  • UTME: JAMB to further screen 27,105 results

    UTME: JAMB to further screen 27,105 results

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board said it would further screen 27,105 results of candidates who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

    The board made this known on Monday, in Abuja.

    In the statistics made available in the Weekly Bulletin from the Office of the Registrar, JAMB noted 1, 761, 338 candidates registered for the exercise.

    It also added that, 1, 707, 626 sat for the exercise and results of 1, 671, 203 candidates have so far been released.

    It however, said that 69 results have so far being withheld and 27, 105 were undergoing further screening, while 1, 783 candidates who experienced biometric challenges were being investigated, to ascertain their claims.

    The 2022 UTME held from Friday, May 6 to Friday, May 13.

    In a similar development, JAMB said that it conducted the 2022 UTME for foreign candidates on Saturday.

    The board said the exercise took place in five out of its nine foreign centres and was a complete success.

    JAMB said the centres where the examination were held include: Accra, Ghana; Johannesburg, South Africa; Buea, Cameroun, Abidjan, Cote d’ Ivoire and Cotonou, Benin Republic.

    However, its said, the 2022 Foreign UTME will take place in Berlin, Germany; London, UK, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and New York, United States of America in due course.

    It further explained that the exercise was part of the boards’ largesse, towards providing succour to foreign candidates who signaled interest to attend Nigerian tertiary institutions in its academic year.

    The board said that its International policy on test administration, aims at attracting more foreign candidates to the nation’s tertiary institutions and the policy has been yielding positive results.

  • JAMB addresses issues relating to 2022 UTME results

    JAMB addresses issues relating to 2022 UTME results

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has debunked reports of error in the scoring of candidates in the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

    The board warned the public especially candidates of the last UTME to be wary of the guile and other unsavoury activities of fraudsters who were making false claims of errors in the scoring system.

    Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of the board made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday.

    Benjamin said that the board was, therefore, maintaining for the umpteenth time, that the UTME was a Computer Based Test (CBT) that was scored electronically with no human mediation whatsoever.

    “Consequently, the unfounded rumours making the rounds are nothing but the products of the deceitful brains of the masterminds of these baseless imputations.

    “Hence, the Board reiterates that there is no room for errors in its electronic scoring system nor does it plan to organise another UTME.

    “This clarification became necessary following reports of a purported rescheduling of the UTME from a section of the social media citing phantom errors in the computer scoring system and a purported apology from JAMB to the effect that another UTME would be organised.

    “The board wishes to state that the report is not only false, mischievous but also misleading and crafted out of the frustration and inability of these fraudsters to dupe unsuspecting candidates owing to the series of innovative strategies the board had put in place to protect candidates,” he said.

    Benjamin also recalled that the board had envisaged some of the strategies of these nefarious individuals and had sounded a note of warning to the candidates and the general public alike.

    This is to preclude the possibility of them falling victims to the evil machinations of fraudsters.

    “JAMB, once again, advises the general public to disregard this item of news as it does not emanate from JAMB nor has it authorised any individual or group to make such a pronouncement on its behalf.

    “The board, therefore, advises candidates to avail themselves of its user-friendly advisories on assessing their 2022 UTME results and other processes through periodic visits to www.jamb.gov.ng.