No fewer than 62,140 candidates have been ordered by the
Joint Examination and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to re-sit for the 2017 Unified
Tertiary matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, at a press briefing after a
management meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, said the rescheduled exams will hold
July 1.
The board also suspended 24 centres for one year due to
technical issues. It said the affected centres may
be considered for 2019 exams.
be considered for 2019 exams.
The 62,140 cancelled results include of 57,646 candidates in
centres-induced malpractice, 3,811 late registration, and 683 candidates who
had biometric challenges.
JAMB further cancelled the results of another 2,052
individual candidates found culpable of examination malpractice.
Oloyede said the management meeting had approved the
“delisting of forty-eight (48) centres from participating in the board’s
examination in future as a result of serious technical deficiencies, extortion,
organised examination malpractice and other damaging infractions”.
He explained that the rescheduled examination was for
candidates of centres with mass malpractice but who were deemed innocent.
“The rescheduling of examination is for: biometric non
verification machine related issues, technical and log out issues, late registration,
malfunctioning of servers at the centre and incomplete results,” he said.
JAMB added that 1,722,236 candidates registered for the 2017
unified Tertiary Matriculation Board, which is the highest figure ever in the
history of the exams.
By Wale Odunsi
