Kano – Hundreds of students,
who sat for the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation
Examination on Monday in
Kano staged a peaceful
demonstration against mass
failure and withholding of
their results.
The students stormed the
premises of the Federal
Radio Corporation of Nigeria
in Kano on motorcycles
around noon and carried
placards and green leaves to
show their anger.
Spokesman for the
candidates, Haruna
Maidabam, described the
withholding of their results
as a deliberate attempt to
deny them the opportunity
to further their studies.
According to him, more than
10, 000 students who sat for
the examination in Kano
metropolis have yet to access
their results.
Maidabam said when the
results were released last
week, they went to the zonal
office of Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board in
Kano (JAMB) to complain but
were directed to go and
repeat the thumb printing
for verification.
‘’There is no reason for any
verification of thumb- print,’’
he said.
He called on the authorities
concerned to do something
urgently to address their
predicament.
When contacted, the JAMB
Zonal Coordinator, Hajiya
Karimatu Abubakar,
described the incident as
unfortunate and attributed it
to “some technical hitches”.
Abubakar said as soon as the
hitches were rectified, the
issue would be resolved.
(NAN)