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  • JAMB apprehends another UTME candidate for upgrading score from 162 to 206

    THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has apprehended another Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Cletus Kokowa, for upgrading his score from 162 to 206 with the help of a fraudster.

    Kokowa became the second candidate to be apprehended by the board following that of Adah Eche who was nabbed last month for similar offense.

    Kokowa confessed before the management of 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 he was told his score could be upgraded from 162.

    Read Also: JAMB withdraws UTME results of four candidates

    It explained that fraudsters later sent a fake result screen shot to Kokowa, stating that his score was now 206.

    However, when the result 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 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 a 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 be involved in fraudulent practices before, during and after the examination

  • JAMB nabs candidate with fake UTME result

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday apprehended one Ada Eche, a 19- year old for being in possession of a fake Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result.

    JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said Eche was nabbed following an invitation by the board for him to collect his admission letter at its headquarters in Abuja.

    He said the culprit is among several candidates parading fake UTME results and disparaging the credibility of the board.

    The registrar explained that the candidate wrote a letter to the board, claiming that his original score from the UTME had been tampered with.

    Oloyede explained that unknown to the candidate, the board was in possession of his actual score of 153.

    The registrar noted that Eche, with help from an examination fraudster had inflated his UTME score to 290 after paying N5,000 to the fraudster.

    Read Also: JAMB registrar seeks embargo on establishment of new universities

    He urged candidates claiming to have double results from the UTME to come to its office for verification.

    Eche confessed to being in possession of a fake UTME result.

    The candidate explained that the desire to obtain a higher score pushed him to seek for help on how to upgrade his result.

    Eche, who will be handed over to security agency for prosecution, called on other candidates claiming to have double results not to fall into the hands of fraudsters.

    The registrar urged candidates with genuine complaint to visit the website of the board and log their complaint by opening a ticket on the website.

    Oloyede said all complaint from candidates will be attended to, noting that candidates need not come to its offices.

  • JAMB registrar seeks embargo on establishment of new universities

    The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede has called on the Federal Government to place embargo on the establishment of new universities.

    Prof Oloyede said this during the 4tth convocation lecture of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa state at the weekend.

    The registrar, in the board’s Weekly Bulletin released by JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said efforts should be geared towards developing existing ones in the country.

    According to him, universities should not be established just to boost the ego of rich individuals and politicians.

    Read Also: JAMB releases more 15,490 UTME results

    He said: “A situation where universities are only established to massage the ego of rich individuals and politicians is not healthy for educational development of the country as tertiary education is too crucial to be reduced to a commercial outfit for an ego-tripping venture.

     “Since education is everybody’s business, all Nigerians should support the effort towards educational development.

    Oloyede who took a critical look at the recommendations of the 2017 Presidential Retreat on Education which recommended a declaration of a state of emergency in the education sector, advocated increased funding of education in the country by committing nothing less than 15% of the national budget to the sector.

  • Breaking: JAMB releases additional 15,490 UTME results

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released additional results of 15, 490 candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in April.

    The board said it released the results after clearing the candidates of various examination infractions.

     

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  • JAMB releases 4,536 withheld UTME results

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the withheld Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results of 4,536 candidates.

    The board stated that the results were released following the consideration of a committee that reviewed the results of 4,760 candidates that were earlier withheld for multiple facial matches with different names during registration for the examination.

    JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, broke the news in a statement yesterday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

    He stated that the release became necessary following facial match recognition carried out by specialised software and Information Technology (IT) experts.

    “Following the consideration of the Committee on the 4,760 candidates whose results were withheld due to multiple facial matches with different names during the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) registration exercise, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of 4,536 absolved of complication.

    “The release became necessary following facial match recognition carried out by specialised software and IT experts,” the statement said.

    Read Also: JAMB: over 1.3m candidates have accessed results

    He also said the board had released the UTME results of 231 candidates who sat for the examination at the Nigeria Navy Secondary School, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

    Benjamin said the board has however, suspended the centre for “acts not acceptable to the board.”

    He said the results of 127 candidates would be subjected to further physical examination while those of 97 candidates established to have been involved in multiple registration and other forms of infractions have been withheld.

    According to him, candidates whose results would be subjected to further physical examination would be contacted and must appear before an inspection team to clarify other likely areas of multiplicity.

    He said the 127 candidates have been grouped into zones for convenience and easy accessibility.

    “The board has also released the result of 231 candidates who sat for the examination at the Nigeria Navy Secondary School, Abeokuta, Ogun State from diligent investigation, it was discovered that all that transpired was not the fault of the candidates. However, the centre has been suspended for acts not acceptable by the Board.

    “Out of the number subjected for screening, the Board would subject the results of 127 candidates for further physical examination while the results of 97 candidates established to have been involved in multiple registration and other forms of infractions have their results withheld.

    “Those to be subjected to further physical examination would be contacted. They must appear before an inspection team to clarify other likely areas of multiplicity. The 127 have been grouped in zones for convenience and easy accessibility”.

     

  • JAMB releases 2019 UTME results of 1.7million candidates, withholds 34,120

    The 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results were finally released on Saturday by The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

    The results of 1, 792, 719 candidates were released while the board withheld the results of 34,120 candidates including the results of 15,145 candidates it clarified as “identical twins and siblings.”

    JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, in a sixteen page address titled: “Doing things right and doing right things,” broke the news to reporters yesterday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

    Prof. Oloyede said 1, 826, 839 candidates sat for the UTME of the 1,886,508 candidates that registered for the examination which was conducted in 698 computer based test (CBT) centres nationwide from April 11 – 18.

    He said: “Today, we are releasing the results of 1,792,719 candidates. Some 34,120 results are being withheld including the results of 15,145 candidates being further clarified as identical twins and siblings.

    “We released the 2017 and 2018 UTME results almost within 24 hours of each session to convince the doubting Thomases that the expeditious release of CBT results was not beyond our capacity.

    “At the release of the 2018 results, we publicly announced that the results of 2019 UTME would not be released until we subject the procedure to some scrutiny with a view to ascertaining the degree of success of the structures, infrastructure, policies and processes put in place to checkmate the not very few among us who believe in the pervasively illegitimate means of achieving set ambitions and goals. These are the elements that are proudly committed to the system of rot.

    “Being a global menace, every serious country is confronting examination malpractice frontally in order to safeguard the integrity of the system.

    “We need the cooperation of all Nigerians to sanitize the system and ensure that not only do we do thing right, we also do right things. There are sufficient illustrations of the globalisation of the menace in the public domain. The good news is that all right-thinking people appreciate the danger inherent in examination malpractice and are all committed to its elimination.”

    Read Also: UTME results ‘ll be released today – JAMB Registrar

    He advised candidates to check their results through the phone numbers they used for registration.

    “Candidates are advised to use the phone numbers they used to register to text RESULT to 55019.

    “For the first three days or between now and Monday, the only means of checking the results of candidates would be through the Short Code (55019). This is to ensure that fraudsters who would want to exploit candidates by reproducing messages and sending such messages to them are frustrated. It is also to prevent those whose results are withheld from wasting their money at cyber cafes or creating unnecessary crowd at CBT centres.

    “There is no need to approach any CBT Centre or cyber café to check results. Those who were ABSENT, got their Registration CANCELLED or have their results WITHHELD will be told.

    “The board has decided to send both photo and biometric details of candidates to Institutions. We have also put bar codes on the result slips that candidates will be printing. The essence of this is that once a candidate approaches an institution for Post-UTME screening, the institution will use the bar code scanner to authenticate the candidate. However, if a candidate brings a manipulated slip as the case may be at times, the Institution can type in the registration number to ensure that it is not a fake slip that is presented.

    “Candidates who presently enjoy undue favour of benefit of the doubt will then be exposed and more results can then be cancelled for post examination fraud- attempt,” he said.

    The registrar said this year’s examination was infiltrated by overzealous parents and professional examination fraudsters who engaged in impersonation in connivance with operators of CBT centres.

    He said the results of this year’s exercise would have been compromised if not for the resistance of the system the board put in place, the integrity of its staff and some noble Nigerians who assisted the board during the process.

    According to him, the examination was characterized by multiple registration, impersonation and manipulation of biometrics.

    Others are collusion of some private CBT centre owners with parents, syndicates of some closed centers, deliberate disruption of the examination process and extortion of candidates.

    He said manipulation of biometrics and impersonation were discovered in Anambra, Bauchi, Delta, Borno, Imo and other states.

    Prof. Oloyede said a staff of the board was paid N1,760, 000.00 in two centres in Akokwe in Ideato Local Government Area, Imo state to compromise the examination.

    The registrar said the staff is under investigation along others who were provided free accommodation by owners of CBT centers during the examination.

    The registrar also said the board has de-listed or suspended 116 centres for various infractions during the examination.

    “A total of 116 Centres have been delisted or suspended. Out of this number, 18 have been sanctioned by the Governing Board of JAMB with suspension for between one and three year for registration related misconduct,” he said.

  • Breaking: JAMB releases results of 1.7 million candidates, withholds 34,120

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the results of 1,792,719 candidates who sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

    Similarly, the board had withheld the results of 34,120 for various infractions.

    Read Also: JAMB releases UTME results on Saturday

    JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede broke the news to reporters on Saturday in Abuja, the nation’s Capital.
    Details Later….

  • 2019 UTME: Nigerians will be shocked by outcome of our probe – JAMB

    Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on Friday said the outcome of its probe into examination fraud between 2009- 2019 would shock many Nigerians.

    He said the board has discovered that some prominent Nigerians occupying high positions in the society today did not take its examination themselves.

    Oloyede said although the board may not be able to punish these persons because they had already left the system, but it would go ahead to publish their names to shame them.

    The JAMB Registrar spoke at the 23rd annual seminar of the Nigerian Academy of Education under the topic, “Admissions into tertiary educational institutions in Nigeria.”

    He also said the board has hired a Senior Advocate of Nigeria to prosecute over 100 persons caught in various malpractices during the UTME which held between April 11 and 18, and who were arrested by security operatives across the country.

    The registrar did not name the SAN leading the prosecution of UTME candidates and professional examination fraudsters.

    He also did not state the day the 2019 UTME results would be released.

    Oloyede said the board was amused by insinuation that it’s sever had crashed.

    Such comments, he said, were amusing to members of the board.

    The registrar said: “If I were to be punishing every staff of JAMB that is committing infractions, I will not focus on the assignment.

    “I will be going from one disciplinary committee to the other and my attention will be diverted.

    “And that is why I go for the shortest route; once you are caught to have committed one infraction, you will not be assigned with examination duties again.

    Read Also: Why we’ve not released UTME results, by JAMB

    “It is a privilege, which I can withdraw. If you are that bad that I don’t want to see your face around me, I will transfer you to another place.

    “If we have to take disciplinary action against all of them; look at it, today we have 100 people not less than 100 in police cells across the country who were caught for examination malpractices.

    “I have appointed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria who is a former Solicitor-General to help me oversee all these so that the suspects can be brought to book.

    “And my Director of Legal asked me, what offences should we charge these people for; for multiple registrations? And I said why can’t we go to the Examination Malpractice Act?

    “So, my problem has started by having to draft the charges, despite the fact that we have evidences against them. That is the beginning of the problem.

    “I will now ask to be paying my staff to travel out of Abuja to be testifying in court as they are adjourning month after month the cases and we will be wasting money and time on transport.

    “So even now, what we have seen, I tell people that I am more tolerant of corruption in JAMB than when I was as a vice-chancellor at the University of Ilorin.”

    He added that the board has de-listed no fewer than 76 Computer-Based Test Centres for various infractions in the recently concluded unified tertiary matriculation examination.

  • UTME: 50 arrested for impersonation

    Fifty professional examination writers who sit for candidates in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination have been arrested, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, has revealed.

    The board said the impostors were arrested nationwide following its intelligence gathering mechanism.

    JAMB’s Spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in the agency’s weekly bulletin.

    Benjamin identified some of the professional examination writers as Master’s degree holders, postgraduate and undergraduate students of various tertiary institutions in the country.

    He said the professional writers connived with owners and operators of its Computer Based Test Centres (CBT) to carry out the crime by engaging in multiple registrations where the fingerprints of the main candidates are captured side by side with that of the impostors.

    “The board has uncovered a group of professional examination writers who take the exams for prospective candidates for a fee.

    “As a result of intelligence gathering, over 50 of such writers have been arrested across the country.

    “The modus operandi of these UTME syndicates was confirmed when one of the kingpins was apprehended recently,” the bulletin said.

    Read Also: Computer rejects UTME candidates in Anambra

    He said the culprit confessed to have done multiple registrations of his biometric along with several other candidates with the intention of sitting for them and collecting huge sums of money from the candidates.

    “This Development is the fundamental reason for the decision of the board to revalidate all biometrics of candidates that have taken the board’s examination in recent times.

    “This timely action would enable the board to not only fish out and dismantle these registration cartels and racketeers but also bring them to book along with their collaborators,” the bulletin said.

    Also, Fabian said 1, 236, 316 candidates out of the 1.8 million registered has so far taken the examination.

    “A total of 1,886,238 UTME candidates are expected to sit nationwide. And, 1,236,316 candidates have so far taken their examination,” it added.

  • Only qualified candidates will be offered admission -JAMB

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB ) have explained that admissions would be given only to qualified candidates who applied for courses into the various institutions of the country.

    The board reiterated this in its Vol. 1, No 13 weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja.

    It described as misleading and erroneous, information being circulated that over 50 per cent of candidates who yearly apply for admissions into various institutions, were not admitted.

    It also decried the reports that every year, after the conduct of the Unified Tertiary and Universities Examination (UTME), where millions of candidates apply, barely 20 per cent get admitted.

    “The truth is that, admissions can only be given to qualified candidates, hence, any figure being bandied around should equally be based on the total number of candidates who applied and are qualified.

    “It will be an unfortunate postulation if the candidates who do not have any basis to be considered for admissions to any tier of the nation’s tertiary institutions are also included in the final tabulation of candidates admitted.

    “Given this scenario, it will be absurd for any narrative to assume huge admission backlogs without first considering whether the candidates that are not admitted are actually qualified for the courses they applied for.”

    The board noted that in 2018, a total of 1,793,018 candidates applied for admissions into various academic programmes of 849 institutions in the country, with 140,020 applying through Direct Entry (DE).

    It added that when the candidates were categorized according to UTME scores and O’Level credit passes, it was discovered that only 1,245,939 scored 100 and above out of 400 obtainable marks in the UTME and also had five O’Level credits.

    “The above clearly states that out of the 1,793,018 candidates that applied for admission in 2018, only 1,200,748 candidates scored 100 and above and possessed the O’Level credit requirement for admission.

    “That is, five credits in addition to Mathematics and English Language.

    “The 100 cut-off mark in UTME is not an admissible score for most institutions apart from the Innovative Enterprise Institutions (IEIs) which award the National Innovative Diploma (NID).

    “To be considered for admission into most of the nation’s higher institutions, a score of at least 140 and above would be required.

    “Based on this consideration, only 1,168,948 candidates had five O’Level credits in Maths and English Language and also scored 140 and above in their UTME,” the board stated.

    It explained further that based on the above category of candidates, as recommended by the various institutions, the board approved admissions of 570,089 candidates into the various schools.

    The board, however, said that it was important to note that it had never admitted less than 60 per cent of the total number of candidates who qualify for admissions in any given year, adding that the reports about the number of admitted candidates were misplaced.

    It added that there were always programmes with vacancies at some of the schools, even at the close of admission exercise.