Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Wednesday said that the results of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for 2021 would be announced today (June 23).
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, announced this at a news conference In Enugu.
He said, “The result ought to be out by now, but because I am not at the headquarters and I do not want to approve it while on the field.
“But as soon as I get to Abuja today all the examinations up to the one being taken today will be approved and released because we have no reason to continue to hold on to it.”
He said that JAMB registered 1,415,501 candidates in the UTME 2021 and 1,122, 095 had taken the examinations so far while 66,111 had yet to take.
JAMB recently delisted 30 centres out the over 600 across the country for performing below standard.
Oloyede said, “53 centres are currently under watch while 600 of them performed excellently.
“It is our wish and desire that the board will continue to ensure that such non-performing centres with ulterior motive will not be allowed to participate in the exercise.”
He equally said that the use of National Identity Number (NIN) as directed by the Federal Government helped to reduce examination malpractice during the examinations.
He said, “We were talking about the bogus 2.2 million candidates, but it has become clearer that more than 500,000 of such numbers are fake and …duplication.
“And we were able to detect this through NIN and now we have a realistic number of JAMB candidates.”