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  • Jubilation in Lagos as JAMB suspends use of NIN for 2020 UTME

    Jubilation in Lagos as JAMB suspends use of NIN for 2020 UTME

    Some candidates from Badagry who were preparing for the forthcoming 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) expressed joy on Saturday as JAMB suspended the National Identification Number ( NIN) registration.

    They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews that it was a welcome development.

    NAN also reports that some of the parents whose children had undergone various challenges in an attempt to register for the NIN took to the streets expressing their happiness over the suspension.

    They lauded the timely suspension of the NIN registration which was one of the requirements needed by potential candidates to register for the 2020 UTME.

    They thanked the registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, for his timely intervention on the issue.

    The registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede,had announced the suspension of using NIN as a requirement to be met by candidates intending to write the 2020 UTME while addressing journalists in Abuja on Saturday.

    He said that the move was to provide more time for candidates to get their national identification numbers.

    He said the the suspension was also to address the technical challenges experienced at some centres.

    Oloyede told potential candidates to disregard the use of NIN for the 2020 registration and strictly comply with other procedures for the registration.

    Mr Felix Godonu, a parent and the President of Hengo Badagry Youth Association, told NAN that the suspension was prompt and a welcome development.

    “This will save the time during which students queue for the collection of NIN which has also given room for extortion from the students.

    “The stress that the students have been going through in last few months is uncalled for.

    “The Federal Government should decentralise the registration process by using banks , tertiary institutions and online registration method.

    “Our association had to support some students with transportation fares before they could travel to Ogun to register for NIN.

    “It is high time for our government to have an up-to-date data base; these students had written examinations conducted by WAEC, NECO and GCE in the past.

    “Even, the JAMB registration process is enough for the government to generate NIN for their intending candidates,” he said.

    Godonu urged JAMB to use the period between now and when next candidates would be registering for UTME to find a lasting solution to NIN registration.

    According to him, this will save the students and their parents from the stress they had gone through in recent weeks because some of the children’s health cannot withstand such.

    Mrs Tonia Kalu, a Deputy Director, National Population Commission (NPC), commended the Federal Government for its current action.

    “When government is ready, they should make available adequate equipment to match the teeming population of students seeking admission into the country’s universities,” she said.

    Mrs Sewede Pot-Balogun, a parent and the Coordinator, Badagry Women Development Forum, commended the Federal Government for suspending the exercise.

    “I always feel sad every morning while passing through the NIMC office in Badagry and seeing our youths on endless queue waiting for NIN registration.

    “Most of the periods they would have used to study were being wasted on the exercise. Some of our children have not been able to get it done in the past one month.

    “Touts had hijacked the exercise thus extorting money from our children. This is bad and we are grateful that the pain has ended for the main time,” she said.

  • 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.”

  • UTME: Lagos inmate who scored 246 points set for NOUN

    UTME: Lagos inmate who scored 246 points set for NOUN

    The Principal, Ikoyi Prisons School, Mr Ibikunle Idris, has described the performance of inmates who participated in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), as encouraging and signs of better things to come.
    Idris, an Assistant Superintendent of Prisons (ASP) stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos.
    He noted that one of the inmates gave a good account of himself with a score of 246, adding that of the 25 inmates registered for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination, the least score was 175.
    Idris also disclosed that seven of the inmates were released before the April 11 examination, out of which six of them came back to the facility to write the exam.
    The principal said the facility had commenced processing of placements for 12 of the successful inmates into the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) at the facility, to pursue their studies in various fields.
    “This is a sign of good things to come as far as education behind bars in this country is concerned and we are all very excited at this development.
    “This year’s performance is better than that of 2018 and this can be attributed to the support and vision of the Comptroller General of Prisons (CGP), Ja’afar Ahmed,” he said.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • BREAKING: JAMB, schools approve 160 as cut-off mark for 2019 UTME

    BREAKING: JAMB, schools approve 160 as cut-off mark for 2019 UTME

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and higher institutions on Tuesday approved 160 and above as cut-off for admissions in 2019.

    The decision was reached at the 19th Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria.

    JAMB and the school authorities also approved 140 for admission into private universities.

    The meeting took place at the Bola Babalakin Auditorium, Gbongan, Osun State.

    120 UTME score was approved for admission into public polytechnics while 110 is the minimum for admission into private polytechnics.

     

    Details shortly …

  • 2019 UTME: No cut-off marks yet, says JAMB

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has not published the national and general minimum cut-off marks for placement of candidates into the nation’s tertiary institutions as being speculated in some quarters.

    The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday in Lagos.

    According to him, there is no truth behind such speculations, adding that some persons, whom he described as fraudulent elements were behind the development with a ploy to defraud innocent Nigerians especially the candidates.

    Benjamin said the cut-off marks could only be arrived at with the inputs of critical stakeholders in the education sector sheduled for days ahead.

    “We want to seize this opportunity to caution the public especially candidates, not to allow themselves to be swindled by these desperate individuals that are peddling this rumour.

    “The board is yet to come up with any cut-off mark for placements into the various tertiary institutions across the country.

    “The cut-off marks cannot be decided upon without the input of critical stakeholders of the education sector at an elaborate policy meeting,” he said.

    Benjamin explained that the next policy meeting would be holding on Tuesday, June 11, at Gbongan in Osun.

    The spokesman noted that already, preparations for the meeting had been concluded, adding that officials of the Ministry of Education were expected to attend.

    According to him, other key stakeholders were also expected to grace the occasion, to determine the national cut-off mark.

    He said that it was only after this had been achieved that the candidates would be availed of the cut-off marks of the various tertiary institutions across the country.

    “The cut-off marks are the minimum expectation for every institution and that does not mean by attaining such cut-off mark, it therefore means an automatic placement into schools of first choice.

    “We therefore want to appeal to the general public, especially the candidates not to fall prey to fraudsters.

    “The board will continue to provide information to the public on its processes and activities at every stage,” Benjamin assured.

    NAN reports that over 1.8 million candidates had registered for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

  • JAMB to release 2019 UTME results from Monday

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured candidates of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) that results would be ready from April 29.

    The Board’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Bwari.

    Benjamin said that screening of the results would soon be over and the result released.

    “We are still screening but hopefully, anytime next week, the results will be ready,” he said.

    Speaking also on the board’s readiness to screen results of UTME candidates from 2009 to 2018, Benjamin said this would begin after the release of the 2019 results.

    He said this was part of the board’s effort to address the issues of malpractice in the system.

    The board had stated that it would only release the 2019 UTME results after undergoing thorough screening to identify and apprehend examination cheats.

    The process would identify those involved in multiple registration through biometric capturing and also address group registration by some elite schools, who end up mixing candidate’s data.

    The board said: “Normally, results are expected to be out within 24 to 48 hours as obtained in previous examinations held in 2017 and 2018.

    “However, the board does not want this to be business as usual.

    “Hence the programmed delay, which is part of its deliberate effort to properly scrutinize, identify and address all forms of examination malpractice.

    “The board will continue to act decisively with regards to any irregularity discovered even after results are released.

    “However, the board has made it a point of duty to screen all activities at all centres via CCTV recordings, to ensure that it does not release results of compromised examinations.”

    The board, while regretting all inconvenience caused in the process, reaffirmed its commitment to providing equal opportunity to all candidates in order to articulate their aspirations.

    JAMB said that effective from when it would officially release the results, all candidates can simply send RESULT, via SMS, to 55019 using the same number that was used for registration.

    The result, it said, would be replied as an SMS shortly after.

    This process, the board explained, was simplified to eliminate exploitation by business centres and cyber cafés who often take advantage of candidates.

    It also urged candidates to ignore all messages in circulation on how to check the results as they were all products of deceit.

    The 2019 UTME was conducted from April 11 to April 18 and over 1.8 million candidates registered for it.