The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of 531 candidates who wrote the recently conducted Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).
This takes the total number of UTME results released to 1,842,897.
The information was contained in a statement by the Public Communication Advisor of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin on Tuesday, May 7, in Abuja.
Benjamin said the Board had proceeded with the screening of over 64,000 withheld results due to cases of examination misconduct.
The statement said: “In the course of the exercise, other cases of examination misconduct were also established to make a tally of 92 from the 81 initially discovered.”
He added that the attention of the Board had been drawn to some fallacious publications purporting that an unknown candidate, who did not sit for the Board’s 2024 UTME obtained scores.
Benjamin described this as “fake, malicious and a calculated attempt to undermine the integrity of the Board,” while urging the public to disregard such publications.
He said that the publication which “levels such a grievous allegation, has no details of the candidate for proper verification.”
The statement added: “The Board is not surprised as this is the season of mischief makers, who would want to deceive gullible candidates.
“The examination template of the Board is designed with the highest sense of responsibility and is not an allocation platform where scores are doled out to candidates.
“It is most unfortunate that anybody could even believe such narration or that the story could even gain traction given the Board’s integrity.
“This again has gone to further vindicate the Board’s stance that candidates should desist from disclosing their classified details to third parties.”
Benjamin said that the Board will add more features like registration numbers to the existing UTME Result checking process going forward, to make it extra difficult for anybody to edit.
The spokesman said that the method of checking the 2024 UTME remained to send UTMERESULT to 55019 or 66019 and not through any other process.
