ASHENEWS reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has released an additional 36,540 UTME results.
This is contained in a statement issued by JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin.
According to JAMB, the results which were earlier withheld for further investigation now bring the total number of results to 1,879,437.
This was in addition to the 531 results released the previous week now bringing the total results released to 1,879,437.
JAMB, in the statement also denied a letter in circulation on social media, purportedly emanating from her board.
According to JAMB, the letter alleged that the outstanding 2024 UTME results had been compromised on account of a cyber security breach.
The statement also alleged that the board was considering rescheduling the examination.
“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.
“It is to be recalled that at the release of the 2024 UTME, the Board had announced that some results had been withheld as they were being subjected to further investigation. Out of these, 531 results were released recently.
“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.”
JAMB therefore urged the public to be wary of misleading information emanating from sources not linked to the Board be it religious or other sources.
