… Withheld 64,624 Results
… 80,810 Candidates Absent
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday announced the release of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Is-haq Oloyede, a professor, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday.
Between Friday, 19 to 29 April, more than 1.9 million candidates took the computer-based examination to rank candidates seeking admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions.
Mr Oloyede, however, said the examination body had withheld the results of 64,624 candidates for possible infractions.
He said the board was investigating the withheld results.
Mr Oloyede, according to a copy of his speech obtained by EDUCATION ROADMAP, said: “Out of a total of 1,989,668 registered candidates, 80,810 were absent.
A total of 1,904,189 sat the UTME within the six days of the examination…”.
