The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has directed candidates who have taken the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, to visit the board’s website for their results.
Fabian Benjamin, head of media, JAMB, gave the directive at a news conference in Bwari, Abuja, Tuesday.
Benjamin said the results had been scrutinised and released on www.jamb.org.ng, adding that such candidates were free to visit the Board’s website for their results.
He also explained that the results would be released in batches to enable candidates who have already taken the examination to check them.
Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, recently said unlike the 2017 exercise, the board would not release the results of the 2018 examinations until after two or three days.
This, he said, was not because the board was incapable of releasing them immediately but that results must undergo review and total scrutiny to avoid multiple cancellation of candidates’ results.
The 2018 UTME began on Friday and is scheduled to finish on Saturday.
Meanwhile, a female candidate of the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, was arrested Tuesday as she hid her telephone in her underwear.
The candidate simply identified as Miss Udoh Akpabio, was nabbed by officials of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, after she was found with a phone hidden in her pant at Baptist Academy, Karu, in the Federal Capital Territory where she was to write the examination.
Her accomplice, also identified as Andrew Etziuzala, who was said to be aiding Akpabio in the cheating process, was also arrested.
They were caught with the aid of Close Circuit Television Cameras, CCTV, which sent live transmission of activities going on within the examination halls.
While parading both suspects, Patrick Ukpen, FCT Commandant of the NSCDC, said Andrew introduced Miss Akpabio into the chain of cheating during examinations.
The commandant explained that while the examination was going on, Andrew was busy sending text messages of supposed answers to the questions she was expected to answer.
Ukpen said: “We have in our custody today two suspects that were involved in examination malpractice in the ongoing JAMB UTME.
“Their level of involvement was that, a lady whose name is Joy Akpabio was with a telephone handset and this is against the rules governing the examination.
“She concealed the telephone set inside her pant and she went in undetected and while the examination was going on, she brought it out.
“But, with the use of modern technology; you know the examination centres have CCTV cameras that are sending live transmission of activities that are taking place in the examination hall.
“With prompt response of our men and other JAMB officials, who were deployed to the centres, we were able to detect what she was doing and she was immediately arrested.
“Upon interrogation, we were also able to arrest her accomplice who is another young man by the name Andrew. He introduced her into the business and was equally involved in sending text messages of supposed answers to the examination she was doing.
JAMB’s Head of Information, Fabian Benjamin, who confirmed the development, corroborated the NSCDC commandant, saying Andrew was caught texting answers of 1990 JAMB examination to Miss Akpabio.
He said the candidate was spotted from JAMB’s headquarters in Bwari, a suburb in the FCT.
Benjamin said the Board had initially listed all items banned from the examination, stressing that all Computer-Based Centres in the country were covered by CCTV cameras.
