JAMB releases 68,000 withheld results

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of over 68,000 candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on April 27.

JAMB’s Lagos Zonal Coordinator, Kamaldeen Oladeji said the results, initially seized because of biometric verification-related issues, had been released.

The JAMB co-ordinator advised the affected candidates, who had protested in Lagos, Kano and other places, to check their results on the board’s website.

In all, 1,629,102 candidates applied to sit for the Paper Pencil Test (PPT); 15,008 candidates applied for the Dual Based Test (DBT), bringing the number of candidates to 1,644,110. The results of over 1.5 million candidates were released on May 3.

Oladeji also said there is no going back on the newly introduced Computer Based Test (CBT).
The zonal coordinator, who supervised the CBT of the UTME at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), spoke on Saturday in Lagos in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
A total of 100,000 candidates will take the examination at 56 centres across the country.

The examination, which is the first of its kind to be conducted by the board, is expected to end on June 1.
The zonal coordinator noted that if the country is to compete favourably with others, especially in technological advancement, all must support the initiative.

According to him, the adoption of the CBT will eventually assist in enhancing ICT skills amongst the citizenry.
Oladeji said: “This CBT examination has come to stay. Once we get it right, others will follow, because as you can see, our education system is gradually transiting to e-education. This means, we should be talking e-learning, e-teaching, e-research across all the various levels of education in our system.

“With ICT, we can achieve a lot in no time. But the only challenge currently is that the computer penetration and infrastructural backing are still very low in our society.”
He implored stakeholders in the private sector to improve infrastructure and internet penetration across the country.

The Nation