The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has scheduled a mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for 18,000 candidates for August 6 in selected locations in Nigeria.

JAMB’s Head, Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in a statement on Thursday, said no candidate, whose result had been duly released, would be rescheduled for another examination.

The statement read, “Following a detailed investigation and careful analysis of the highly-successful 2021 UTME, and with due consultation (resulting in gracious concession) with NECO, concerning the timetable of the council’s ongoing SSCE, JAMB has scheduled a mop-up UTME for Aug. 6, 2021, in some selected locations across the nation.

“No fewer than 18,000 candidates slated for the examination are being notified through both text messages on their designated phone numbers and their JAMB profiles.

“In addition, the candidates can check using their registration number on http://www.jamb.gov.ng/2021mopup.”

Rescheduled categories include candidates who were unable to be scheduled for examinations in the initial round due to their inability to obtain the mandatory NINs or profile codes before the registration deadline. As a result, these candidates were required to purchase Bank Drafts (instead of the usual PINs) after the scheduled examination period, and they were then registered.

Also on the list are a few candidates who encountered peculiar biometric verification problems, or who failed biometric verification on the examination date (and were recaptured) but were not allowed to partake in the examination.

The statement noted that adequate screening arrangements had been made to reverify such claims and any candidate found to be involved in any form of impersonation would be identified for prosecution.

It also listed candidates who were unable to sit for the UTME, owing to the clash of timetables of the examination and the ongoing NABTEB examinations, and whose particulars had been verified and supplied directly to JAMB by NABTEB.

Read more: https://newscentral.africa/2021/07/29/18000-to-write-utme-mop-up-exams-jamb/

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