THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of an additional 3,921 results, adding that a supplementary 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for 24,535 candidates has been scheduled for Saturday, June 22, 2024, for some candidates.
This information was disclosed in a statement to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday by the Board’s Spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin.
Benjamin said the rescheduled examination, taking place two weeks from now, would give affected candidates adequate time to prepare for the exercise.
He said the candidates include those from Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS) and the Kwara State University (KWASU), on the CAILS-KWASU Diploma programme.
Others are some 20,550 of the candidates whose results were up till now under investigation and 2,702 candidates whose fingers could not be verified who were given the benefit of the doubt to sit for the 2024 UTME.
He said the remaining 322 candidates have been migrated to the category of candidates under examination misconduct as a prima facie case had been established that those who had registered were not those who appeared for the examination.
He said that the number of examination misconduct had also increased by 322 to 431.
Similarly, the Board, having yielded in the last month to the request and pleas of many stakeholders and authorities for the extension of the period for the 2024 Direct Entry (DE) registration has decided to close the DE registration on Monday, June 17, 2024.
To facilitate the wrap-up of the registration, the DE registration points have been expanded beyond the Professional Registration Centres (PRCs) owned by JAMB.
“The States where there is an upsurge of prospective DE candidates include Lagos State: -(a) JAMB PRC, No 11, Ojora Road, Ikoyi Lagos; (b) JAMB PRC, No 35-37, Isheri Road, Ogba, Ikeja Lagos, (c) ETC Nig. Ltd, 229, JKK House Ikorodu, Road, Ilupeju.
“Oyo State:- (a) JAMB PTC, JAMB Zonal Office, Quarters 845, Agodi G.R.A, Ibadan, Oyo State; (b) Federal College of Education (FCE) Special, CBT Centre, Oyo; (c) JAMB PTC, Igboho.
“Kwara State: (a) JAMB PTC, National Headquarters Annex, After Oyun Bridge, Old Jebba Road, Ilorin, Kwara State; (b) University of Ilorin CBT Centre, Mini Campus.
“Osun State: (a) JAMB PTC, behind Technical College WAEC Road, Alekuwodo, Osogbo, Osun State; (b) JAMB PTC, Block Y (Commercial) OSPDC, Oroki Estate, Service Area, Ilobu Road, Osogbo, Osun State; (c) JAMB PTC, Gbongon.
“It is our belief that all eligible candidates would take advantage of this opportunity to register as no further extension would be entertained,” he stated.
Benjamin also affirmed that the previously announced criteria for DE registration remain unchanged.
Also, on the CAILS-KWASU Diploma programme, the Board has agreed to conduct a special registration exercise for the 3,633 prospective candidates, who did not participate in the 2024 UTME based on the assumption that they would be accommodated in the 2024 DE exercise. These candidates are, therefore, to register at any of the approved CBT centres in Kwara, Oyo, or Osun State within the next week (ending on Monday, June 10, 2024.) to register for the UTME.
Benjamin then stressed that 469 others among this category of UTME candidates, who had already taken the 2024 UTME need not retake the examination as the one they had already taken suffices.
He said this concession was to ensure that, while standards were being maintained, efforts were in place to support and promote the aspirations of qualified and willing candidates even if it required bending over backwards.
