The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of 1,792,719 candidates who sat for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), TheCable can report.
Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB Registrar, disclosed this to journalists in Abuja on Saturday.
He said the board withheld the results of 34,120 for various infractions during the examination across the nation.
The 2019 UTME was held from April 11 to April 18 with over 1.8 million registered candidates. Since then, the board did not release the results.
The exam body had previously told candidates that their results would be ready from April 29.
The results were not released on that day, prompting worries from some candidates who pleaded with JAMB to release “at least parts of the results to reduce the tension.”
The board explained that it would first screen the entire candidates’ results to weed out those who were involved in any form of malpractice during the examination.
The board subsequently assured candidates that it would release their UTME resultsfrom May 11.
“We are releasing our results tomorrow, we are having a meeting today to consider what to put out,” Oloyede had said on Friday
