The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the 2019 UTME results.
About
1,792,719 candidates sat for the exams, while 34,120 candidates had their results
withheld for examination malpractice.
The
Registrar of the board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, who made the announcement in
Abuja on Saturday also stated that 15,145 results were withheld for further
clarification.
He
said, for the 2019 UTME, 1,886,508 candidates registered including those who
registered at the foreign centres.
“Out
of this number, which excludes the Direct Entry candidates, 59,667 were absent.
A total of 1,826,839 sat the UTME. 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” Professor Oloyede
added.
He
explained that the reasons for the delay were to ensure that the right things
were put in place.
“It
is hoped that every Nigerian will change accordingly in line with the current
government mantra by also doing right things and doing things right at all
times. At the level of JAMB, our resolve is to ensure that the admission
process, right from the UTME registration is open, free, transparent and
malpractice-free.
“We
want to once again thank the Honorable Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu
Adamu, the Chairman and members of the Board, the security agencies, the
management and staff of JAMB and indeed all Nigerians who contributed one way
or the other to the success of the 2019 UTME. We can only hope that more
commitment will be given by all stakeholders to ensure that the future exams
will be better in all ramifications”, he further added.
The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) conducted its Unified Tertiary
Matriculations Examinations (UTME) between April 11 and 17, 2019 across the 36
states of the Federation and Abuja.
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