By Chika Nwachukwu
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the results of candidates who participated in the supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted on Friday, June 21 and 22.
This was disclosed by its spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in a statement released to newsmen yesterday.
The statement noted that the supplementary examination was conducted for 28,835 candidates who were unable to be biometrically verified during the main UTME and were, therefore, unable to take their examination.
It added that other categories of candidates who sat for the examination were those suspected to have been involved in examination malpractice during the main UTME but who were given a second chance to sit for the examination.
According to the statement, the exercise, which recorded a huge success nationwide, was marked by heightened security measures put in place by the Board to preclude any instance of examination infractions. As such, some nefarious characters, who had attempted to impersonate bonafide candidates were apprehended and handed over to law enforcement agencies for further investigation and prosecution.
It added that the Board would continue to ensure that no candidate benefits from acts of infractions through the deployment of state-of-the-art technology before, during and after its examinations.
JAMB, however, urged candidates to refrain from engaging in any form of irregularity during examinations.
“They are also enjoined to desist from soliciting score upgrade from fraudsters or engage in the mutilation of their result sheets while trying to generate fake result sheets with higher scores.
“To check their supplementary UTME results, candidates are to send UTMERESULT to either 55019 or 66019 through the same phone number they used to generate their profile codes at the start of registration,” it said.
