UTME Results Update: JAMB Releases 36,540 More

36,540 more UTME results are released by JAMB

An extra 36,540 applicant results for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which were previously delayed for additional inquiry, have been made public by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

According to the board, this results was published on top of the 531 results that were released the week before, making a total of 1,879,437 results available.

The release of the supplementary results was announced in a statement on Tuesday night by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the JAMB Public Communication Advisor.

A fake letter created by a scammer and shared on social media with the intention of appearing to be from the board was brought to the attention of the Board, according to Dr. Benjamin. The letter claimed that the board was considering rescheduling the exam and that the outstanding results of the 2024 UTME, which are currently being closely examined by its team of experts, had been compromised due to a cyber security breach.

The statement said: “This is far from the truth as the said letter did not emanate from the Board. In fact, a closer look at the letter, which was not signed by any person, lacked every ingredient of a letter from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.

“The letter is, therefore, from those, who wish to destroy the integrity of the Board, by compromising its unassailable operational processes to mislead hapless candidates with the sole aim of extorting them.

“The Board reiterated, for the umpteenth time, that the results of its 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and other previous years are intact, not in any cloud storage and can, therefore, not be hacked by anybody.”

The board stated during the 2024 UTME announcement that certain results had been held pending more study.

A JAMB representative stated, “Out of these, 531 results were released recently while others found to be involved in any examination misconduct are still undergoing investigation as the Board would want to review all the footage of all CCTV cameras placed in all its accredited centres to ascertain the candidate's culpability or otherwise.

“At the conclusion of this exercise, the Board would publish its findings.

“Therefore, the public is urged to be wary of misleading information emanating from sources not linked to the Board be it religious or other sources.

“Equally disturbing is the misleading comments of some functionaries of some private institutions, who are linking the Board with “the prevailing low 'cut-off marks when in practice, it was their institutions that had submitted lower minimum admissible scores marks, even lower than what other institutions had presented.

“For the purpose of clarity, minimum admissible scores are first presented by individual institutions before such are debated to arrive at a benchmark agreed upon by all Heads of Institutions across the country at its annual Policy Meeting on Admissions and which no institution would be allowed to compromise.

“Also, the Board would also like to urge religious organisations to stick to their primary roles and not dabble into areas outside their calling as there are reports of some religious organisations making false representation to government at X various levels for selfish ends,” he stated.