JAMB releases 531 out of 64,000 withheld results 

• Group gives board a week to release others

Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released 531 out of 64,000 withheld results of the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.  

The board dismissed the trending story that its processes had been compromised, stressing that it would continue to “protect the integrity of its systems against such malicious actors, who are hell-bent on creating confusion where none existed.
 
“Consequently, the board is primed to add more features like registration numbers to the existing UTME Result checking process going forward to make it extra difficult for anybody to edit. 

In its statement, Foundation for Civic Education, Human Rights and Development Advancement, threatened to lead an advocacy that would ultimately lead to the scrapping of the examination body if all withheld results were not released at the expiration of the seven-day notice.
 
The Executive Director of the group, Clifford Thomas, gave the threat in a statement made available to journalists in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, tagged, “JAMB must address this injustice by releasing the full 2024 results”.
 
Thomas argued that the decision by JAMB to withhold candidates’ results under the guise of investigation was proof that JAMB had not shown good faith and professional competence in conducting and managing entrance examinations into Nigerian tertiary institutions.
 
Thomas said: “We put JAMB on notice, for it to release all results forthwith, unconditionally, to show that it has not failed in its duties. Candidates who wrote this examination are seeking admission into Nigerian public tertiary institutions. Why dash the confidence of candidates in our public educational institutions?
 
“We give an ultimatum of seven days, commencing from Wednesday, May 8, 2024, to release the seized results. At the expiration of this seven-day notice, we shall mobilise and galvanise support from parents and guardians to commence advocacy for the scrapping of JAMB and for the need of tertiary institutions in Nigeria to conduct their entrance examination.”