The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that it is still screening 111,981 withheld Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. The disclosure was made by the board’s head of public affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in an interview with Punch, on Monday, March 26.

[url]Newshelm.ng [/url]gathers that Benjamin stated that the board would communicate its findings at the appropriate time. JAMB had released a statement on Tuesday, March 20, announcing that it had released 1,502,978 results, but withheld 111,981, for ‘further screening’.

The statement read: “After viewing all CCTV footages during the conduct of the 2018 UTME and considering reports from our supervisors, monitors and other independent Nigerians, JAMB has released the results of 1,502,978 candidates. “Also, 112,331 results have yet to be released out of which 350 are the results of visually impaired candidates which will be released soon and 111,981 results withheld for further screening.

“The figure above excludes foreign candidates whose examination will be conducted in April.”


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