The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released additional 36,540 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, withheld results.
Recall that the Board last week released 531 results, bringing the total results now released to 1,879,437.
This was contained in a statement yesterday in Abuja by the board’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin.
Making the disclosure, JAMB dismissed a letter by a suspected fraudster accusing the board of compromising the outstanding 2024 UTME results.
The letter had stated that JAMB had compromised the outstanding 2024 UTME results due to a cybersecurity breach and that it was considering rescheduling the examination.
But in the statement Benjamin said: “In another development, the attention of the Board was drawn to a fictitious letter concocted by a fraudster and circulated on social media. Purporting to emanate from the Board, stating that the outstanding 2024 UTME results, currently being subjected to intense scrutiny by its team of experts, had been compromised on account of a cybersecurity breach. And that it is considering rescheduling the examination.”
“This is far from the truth, as the said letter did not emanate from the Board. In fact, a closer look at the letter, which was not signed by any person, lacked every ingredient of a letter from the JAMB. The letter is, therefore, from those who wish to destroy the integrity of the Board. By compromising its unassailable operational processes to mislead hapless candidates with the sole aim of extorting them.
“The Board reiterated, for the umpteenth time, that the results of its 2024 UTME and other previous years are intact. Not in any cloud storage and can, therefore, not be hacked by anybody.
“It is to be recalled that at the release of the 2024 UTME, the Board had announced that some results had been withheld. As they were being subjected to further investigation. Out of these, 531 results were released recently. Others found to be involved in any examination misconduct are still undergoing investigation. As the Board would want to review all the footage of all CCTV cameras placed in all its accredited Centres. To ascertain the candidate’s culpability or otherwise.
“At the conclusion of this exercise, the Board would publish its findings. Therefore, the public is urged to be wary of misleading information emanating from sources not linked to the Board. Be it religious or other sources.
“Equally disturbing is the misleading comments of some functionaries of some private institutions. Who are linking the Board with the prevailing low ‘cut-off marks.’ When in practice, it was their institutions that had submitted lower minimum admissible scores marks. Even lower than what other institutions had presented.
“For the purpose of clarity, minimum admissible scores are first presented by individual institutions. Before such are debated to arrive at a benchmark. This will be agreed upon by all Heads of Institutions across the country at its annual Policy Meeting on Admissions and which no institution would be allowed to compromise.
“Also, the Board would also like to urge religious organizations to stick to their primary roles and not dabble into areas outside their calling. As there are reports of some religious organizations making false representation to government at various levels for selfish ends.”
source: The Nation
