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  • JAMB releases 14,620 UTME results under investigations, withholds 93 others – Spokesman

    JAMB releases 14,620 UTME results under investigations, withholds 93 others – Spokesman

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cleared and released the UTME results of 14,620 candidates that were hitherto under investigation, while withholding the results of 93 other candidates.

    Dr Fabian Benjamin, the board Head, Media and Publicity, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, on Tuesday, said the results were released, following the consideration and approval of the recommendations of the investigators, by a management meeting held on Tuesday.

    “You will recall that the board, in its earlier release, stated that it will still review the results of the 2021 UTME exercise and any candidate found wanting will have his/her result withheld.

    “Out of the withheld results, 13 were discovered to have been involved in examination infractions after they were released and the one earlier withdrawn bringing the total of the results that have been withdrawn to 14.

    “Results of 332 blind candidates, whose examination was conducted this month, have also been released,” he said.

    The board listed the candidates whose results were withdrawn to include: Gabriel Micheal, Lawson Joy, Sadiq Auwal, Attama Ikedichukwu (earlier withdrawn) Tambaya Yahaya, Anowa Anointing and Ogbonna Dibia.

    Others were Ani Maryrose, Ayomiposi Precious, Ekeocha Michael, Oluwarotimi Ayanfeoluwa, Edu Abiola, Promise and Onyeama Odi.

  • JAMB withdraws results of candidate for impersonation

    JAMB withdraws results of candidate for impersonation

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn the result of one Attama Ikedichukwu for acts bordering on impersonation in the just concluded 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

    This is contained in a statement issued by Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB Head, Media and Publicity in Abuja on Tuesday.

    He said that upon investigations, it was revealed that Ikedichukwu had hired a ”professional examination taker” to sit for the examination on his behalf.

    He however said that his luck ran out when the board’s post-examination processes discovered that the candidate had been impersonated in the course of the examination.

    “On further scrutiny, other hidden dimensions to the case were also unravelled which the candidate had admitted to in the course of perpetrating the fraudulent act.

    “ Following Management’s consideration and approval of the recommendations of the investigators, the result of Ikedichukwu, whose examination was taken on his behalf at the University of Nigeria, MTN Library, Nsukka, Enugu State, on June 22 during the second session of the examination for that day, has been withdrawn.

    “The Board wishes to restate that no result obtained through fraudulent means will be allowed to stand.

    “It should be noted that the cancellation is in line with the board’s policy of cancelling any result fraudulently obtained by any candidate even when such had been released,” he said.

    He added that the perpetrator would be handed over to relevant agencies for prosecution to serve as a deterrent to other would-be infractors.

    He said that the board urged candidates and the general public that it would painstakingly scrutinise the entire examination processes with the provision that the results obtained through fraudulent means would be withheld and after thorough investigation, cancelled as the case may be.

    “ In the meantime, the Board is engaged in the viewing and assessment of all CCTV footage of the examination as well as the adequacy or otherwise of the security measures put in place to forestall examination infractions.

    “The board warned that the above stated case might just be the first of the many that would be unearthed in the course of the review as many more infractions might yet come to light.m,” he added.

    He therefore said that a top security officer who had facilitated the forgery of the board’s admission letter was being investigated for possible culpability and subsequent prosecution.

  • Era of malpractices in UTME over – JAMB Registrar

    Era of malpractices in UTME over – JAMB Registrar

    The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, says the era of malpractices in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) is over.
    Oloyede said this in his address at the foundation laying ceremony of the board’s International Talent Resort Centre on Wednesday in Gbongan town, Ayedaade Local Government Area of the state.
    He said that no amount of blackmail would deter the board from its avowed
    mission of ridding the education system of malpractices and examination syndicates in the country.
    Oloyede noted that in the past five years, JAMB had strengthened its processes such that opportunities to commit examination malpractices had been substantially blocked.
    According to him, the recent “exaggerated uproar” on the poor performance of candidates who sat for 2021 UTME is “misplaced”.
    The JAMB registrar said that many of the candidates who sat for the examination failed because of a fake digital past UTME questions and answers in circulation by ” a cartel” before the examination.
    “Many may not have noticed that shortly before the commencement of 2021 UTME, a cartel published a fake digital past UTME Question Papers and was circulating fake questions and answers claiming to be genuinely from JAMB.
    “Many parents who fell for the scam must have now realised how wrong they and their not so innocent children were.
    “This explains why many students had to collapse in the examination hall when reality stared them in the face.
    “This is a lesson for people to realize that the days of examination malpractice in JAMB conducted examinations is over and over forever”.
    Oloyede also said that government and security agencies needed to pay attention to ” miracle centres”, which he said was wreaking havoc on public examinations.
    “A recent experiment by Bayero University, Kano, shows that as high as nine per cent of the A/level results being churned out (courtesy of these tutorial centres) are fake.
    “Tertiary institutions also need to pay particular attention to the fact that these
    examination fraudsters parading themselves as tutorial masters are infiltrating vastly and deeply into the institutions’ Interim Joint Matriculation Board (IJMB) and Joint Universities Preliminary Examination Board( JUPEB) units, wreaking untold havoc on the education system”.
    He, however, said that with the standard of Computer Based Test(CBT) centres, the activities of the miracle centres had been eliminated in respect of UTME.
    “The states and security agencies, therefore, need to pay sufficient attention to the fast expanding illicit education gangsters,” he said.
    Oloyede also said that the directive by Federal Government on the use of NIN for UTME had improved the capacity of the board to eliminate impersonation during UTME.
    Oloyede, however, said that it was quite disturbing that even some parents /guardians as well as some school proprietors/administrators were also deeply involved in examination fraud.
    On the resort centre, Oloyede said it was programmed to be an integrated ultra-modern educational facility to serve all researchers, particularly those engaged in various academic services of the Board.
    He said the first phase of the project, which would gulp N280 million, would comprise of an office and 550 seater CBT centres, adding that the project is in four phases.
    “On completion, the resort shall provide a world class research facility in a
    serene environment.
    ” The centre is conceived to be a centre where scholars, particularly those engaged by the Board for various academic purposes, will converge,” he said .
    In his remarks, Gov. Gboyega Oyetola, said the siting of the Centre in Osun, no doubt underscored the existing robust collaboration and partnership between the Board and the state.
    Oyetola, who was represented by Secretary to State Government, Mr Wole Oyebamiji, commended the board and the Federal Government for siting the centre in the state.
    Also speaking, Oba Adetoyese Oyeniyi, the Olufi of Gbongan, thanked the board for finding the town worthy to host the resort centre.
    Mr Wale Babalakin (SAN), who is an indigene of the town, commended the Federal Government and the board for citing the centre in the state.
  • Malpractice, indiscipline remain our major challenge- JAMB Registrar

    Malpractice, indiscipline remain our major challenge- JAMB Registrar

    Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) says malpractice and indiscipline are some of the board’s major challenges yet to be fully addressed.

    The Registrar made this known when members of the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education visited the board’s headquarters in Bwari, Abuja on Monday.

    Oloyede said that the challenges, unfortunately, were mostly with regards to parents trying to bend the system by all means and get their wards or children into schools, irrespective of their performance.

    “Our challenge remain examination malpractice, especially with regards to parents who keep calling me to favour their wards or children wether they meet the requirements of the system or not.

    “There’s also indiscipline from the tertiary institutions who admit against the Federal Government’s policy guidelines as mandated by the Ministry of Education.

    “At the end of the day, after admitting outside these policies, they put pressure on students at the final moments towards graduation to come back to us for what they call regularisation.

    “We also have same challenge from some private sectors and dubious Computer Based Test (CBT) centres too and we are really putting efforts to curb this.”

    The Registrar said that the number of registered candidates for 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) was not up to 1.4 million, a low figure, when compared to 2.2 million in 2020.

    He noted, however that the mandatory use of National Identity Number (NIN) helped the board to curb some of the malpractices usually encountered during the UTME registration.

    Oloyede said the malpractices included multiple and fraudulent registration by candidates with irregular credentials.

    He said that during the 2021 examination, the board’s challenge shifted to security operatives attached to some of the centres, whom he said allegedly smuggled fraudulent candidates into the examination hall.

    “Even after they dodge the verification process where of course the system would have identified them through their pictures, the cameras at the centres immediately picked them and we were able to apprehend them.

    “That was when some of them said either their parents gave the security operatives money to let them in or the candidates themselves bribed their way in.

    ” So whether we like it or not, NIN helped us curb some of these challenges at both the registration and examination exercise.”

    On JAMB’S budget performance for 2020, the Registrar noted that the board remitted N4.1 billion to the Federal Government confers, stating that staff welfare was paramount and they were adequately taken care of.

    He said that the board adopted some secondary schools in its host community, alongside other pet projects in some schools to enable it make the desired impact in Bwari communities.

    A monitoring committee, he added, had been set up by the board to ensure that the monies disbursed for the projects was properly used.

    Oloyedesaid that plans were underway to complete a 2,500 capacity centre with global standard that would give room to CBT or process of exercises like the NIN registration and other exercises from across board.

    Speaking on behalf of the committee, Sen. Akon Eyakenyi, Vice Chairman of the committee said that the members were on an oversight visit to check on the board’s appropriation as approved by the National Assembly.

    Eyakenyi said the committee was also at the board to assess the just concluded UTME and find out what was behind the performance with regards to results of the candidates.

    “The interaction with the registrar today revealed alot of truth that Nigerians do not know as it relates to conduct of the UTME.

    “I appreciate the registrar and his management team , indeed, he is a round peg in a round hole who knows what it takes to run an institution like this.

    “Most of the revelations we saw are not what is to be exposed to the public interms of conduct of the examination.

    ”JAMB stands as a bridge between the secondary and the tertiary and if it continues with what we have seen so far, definitely, the education sector in the nation will be improved.”

    Eyakenyi said that the committee had identified two major areas that mightbneed to go into the process of amending the Act establishing JAMB, which would be the committee’s support to the board.

    She said that the committee would also look into and advise the way forward on the issue of appropriate age for candidates to enroll for tertiary education.

    Eyakenyi, while commending the efforts of the board, also urged it to from time to time, go public in educating Nigerians on what was expected of them generally, especially parents of candidates.

  • BREAKING: Senate considers amending JAMB Act to limit age of writing UTME

    BREAKING: Senate considers amending JAMB Act to limit age of writing UTME

    The Senate Committee on Basic Education has said it will pursue the amendment of the law establishing the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to enable it limit the age of candidates writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to 16 years and above.

    Vice Chairman of the committee, Senator Akon Eyakenyi gave the indication during the committee’s oversight visit to JAMB.

    According to him, the committee had identified two major areas to be addressed in the proposed amendment for the exam body to function better.

    Eyakenyi said “Our own work is that of making laws, to legislate; we have identified two major areas that we need to go into the process of amending the act establishing JAMB. That’s the area of support we will give.

    “Other than that, we also intend to pass on what we have seen today to the appropriate MDAs, the Federal Ministry of Education to ensure the support that JAMB needs is given to them.”

    Details shortly…

     

  • UTME: We didn’t reschedule another exam for candidates – JAMB

    UTME: We didn’t reschedule another exam for candidates – JAMB

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has not fix another examination for any category of candidates on July 3 as being peddled in some quarters.

    The board’s Head of Media and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin made this known on Wednesday in Lagos, saying the report “is not correct’’.

    Benjamin noted that almost all results of candidates, who sat for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), have since been released.

    According to him, JAMB has at no point thereafter, announced any form of another examination for any category of candidates.

    “No examination has been fixed for any category of candidates.

    “The attention of the board was drawn to a twitter message credited to it that it had fixed another examination for candidates who scored lower than 170 in its examination and should come for a re-sit on July 3,’’ he said.

  • How to check 2021 UTME result

    How to check 2021 UTME result

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) recently announced the release of 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.

    Given glitches, the examination board suspended results checking by Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) code using 55019.

    Here we bring you alternative means to check 2021 UTME results.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Dr. Fabian Benjamin, Head of Media, JAMB announced the alternative following the glitches experienced with the USSD code.

    JAMB directed all candidates to visit JAMB portal to check for their 2021 UTME result.

    Each candidate is to follow these simple steps.

    • Visit https://www.jamb.gov.ng
    • On the menu bar, click on efacility
    • On the page that shows up, click on UTME 2021 Main Results Notification Slip
    • Enter your registration number and click the button Check My Result

    Candidates can check their results from anywhere there is internet access.

  • 2021 UTME: NIN helps in checking multiple malpractices, restores credibility – JAMB

    2021 UTME: NIN helps in checking multiple malpractices, restores credibility – JAMB

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has lauded the introduction of the National Identification Number (NIN) in its examination exercise.

    This, the board said, it helped in eliminating multiple registrations, impersonation and other malpractices associated with examinations.

    The JAMB Spokesperon, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.

    He said that the partnership with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), which mandated the use of NIN in the registration process, made it virtually impossible for hired examination takers to register multiple times.

    He, however, refuted a media report that claimed that the introduction of NIN affected the revenue of JAMB and caused it to drop to N5.8 billion.

    Benjamin maintained that JAMB was neither a revenue generation agency nor aspired to be one.

    “JAMB is not a revenue generation entity and, as such, is not interested in the ever-ballooning number of candidates.

    “Rather, JAMB is concerned with how to address loopholes being used by fraudsters to distort national data in a bid to compromise public examinations.

    “As far as the board is concerned, having a realistic number of candidates sitting for its examination is a major achievement which only the partnership with NIMC has made possible.

    “It is our resolve not to ever compromise on the integrity of its processes on account of generating fat operating surpluses,”he said.

    Benjamin noted that NIN was a good initiative because it had helped to clean the system and restored its credibility.

    According to him, it is an error of fact to denigrate the wonderful contribution of NIN to UTME registration process by insinuating that it had deleterious effect on the financial base of the board.

    “On the contrary, JAMB greatly appreciates the partnership with NIMC which has led to the inadvertent benefit of revealing the actual number of candidates registered annually.

    “Consequently, it is the board’s firm belief that the introduction of NIN has helped in addressing one of the fundamental channels of perpetrating examination malpractice by way of multiple applications, among others.”

  • JAMB reveals date to announce 2021 UTME results

    JAMB reveals date to announce 2021 UTME results

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the result of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be released on June 23.

    The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this on Wednesday during a news conference in Enugu.

    Oloyede said he had no reason whatsoever to withhold the results of the UTME.

    “The result ought to be out by now, but because I am not at the headquarters and I do not want to approve it while on the field.

    “But as soon as I get to Abuja today all the examinations up to the one being taken today will be approved and released because we have no reason to continue to hold on to it,” he said.

    The registrar said his team was at the Southeast to access what was going on with the conduct of the examinations as well as to visit new University in Ebonyi.

    He noted that JAMB registered 1,415,501 candidates in the UTME 2021 and 1,122, 095 had taken the examinations so far while 66,111 had yet to take.

    According to him, the board has some 650 examination centres across the country, out of which, 30 centres have been delisted for performing below standard.

    “53 centres are currently under watch while 600 of them performed excellently.

    “It is our wish and desire that the board will continue to ensure that such non performing centres with ulterior motive will not be allowed to participate in the exercise,” he said.

    Oloyede explained that the use of National Identity Number (NIN) as directed by the federal government helped to reduce examination malpractice during the examinations.

    “We were talking about the bogus 2.2 million candidates, but it has become clearer that more than 500,000 of such number are fake and duplication.

    “And we were able to detect this through NIN and now we have realistic number of JAMB candidates,” the registrar said.

    The examinations body boss frowned at the activities of some elements to sabotage the exercise, but they were all caught due to the system put in place.

    He added that those students who visited a particular centre but could not write the examination would be rescheduled and new date fixed.

    “Apart from registration fee, we did not collect any other money from candidates, but some pay as far as N25,000 to some elements to help them.

    “Even some parents were paying N1,000 to somebody who did not finish primary six to help their children, but they will surely pay for it because we will delist them,” he said.

    The registrar noted that the security situation in the Southeast was not as media and social media projected it.

    “I came here myself with four directors and nothing has happened to us.

    “I want to commend the media for their criticism and support which made the 2021 UTME successful,” Oloyede said.

  • JAMB delists additional CBT centres

    JAMB delists additional CBT centres

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has delisted additional six Computer Based Centres (CBT) over poor performance on the second day of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

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

    The board had earlier delisted 24 CBT centres across the country over poor performance at the commencement of the 2021 UTME.

    This figure brings the total number of delisted centres across the country to 30.

    Benjamin said candidates who were unable to register during the allowable time for registration despite the extension were graciously directed to visit designated centres to be registered.

    He said these categories of candidates that had been scheduled for the 2021 UTME were directed to print their examination notification slip for their schedule for the examination from June 21.

    He, however, directed the candidates to print their notification slip from the JAMB’s website www.jamv.gov.ng.

    He further said that 464,834 candidates across the country wrote the UTME on June 21, the second day of the examination.

    The additional centres delisted include: Dayspring Christian College, Opete town near Otokutu between Ughelli South lga and Udu Local Givernment, Delta and Fountain of Knowledge International Academy CBT, Azuiyiokwu, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

    Also, Twelve Apostles College, Ndiaboishiagu Sharon, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State and Lead British International School, 1 Aliyu Mustdafa Street, off Wole Soyinka Street, Gwarimpa, Abuja, FCT, were delisted.

    Others are Zaria Academy, Km 10, Zaria-Funtua road, Shika, Zaria in Kaduna State and Muhammed Kamaldeen CBT centre proposed Muhammed Kamaldeen University along FGC, Ogidi, Ilorin in Kwara.