The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that no fewer than 18,000 candidates will sit for a nationwide mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has been scheduled for Friday, 6 August.
The Board said this is coming on the heels of wide consultation as a result of minor problems which were recorded during the 2021 UTME and affected candidates have been notified through both text messages on their designated phone numbers and their JAMB profiles.
In addition, the candidate can check using their registration number on http://www.jamb.gov.ng/
In a statement, which was released on Thursday by the Board’s spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, the Board noted that for the avoidance of doubt, no candidate whose result has been duly released will be rescheduled for another examination contrary to the sponsored fake news being circulated on social and few mischievous conventional media.
He said the affected candidates include those who could not be initially scheduled for examination owing to their inability to timely procure and supply their required NINs or profile codes until after the close of the registration exercise and few candidates who encountered peculiar biometric verification problems, or who failed biometric verification on the examination date.
He added that: “Adequate screening arrangements have been made to re-verify such claims and any candidate found to be involved in any form of impersonation will be identified for prosecution.”
Other affected candidates include those who were unable to sit for the UTME owing to the clash of timetables of the UTME, the ongoing NABTEB examinations and whose particulars have been verified and supplied directly to JAMB by NABTEB.
The last batch is candidates who have been ascertained by JAMB to have experienced genuine rescheduling/technical problems as was the case in 30 of the 760 centres used for the examination.
It said: “Following a detailed investigation and careful analysis of the highly-successful 2021 UTME, and with due consultation with the National Examination Council (NECO) concerning the timetable of the council’s ongoing SSCE, JAMB has scheduled a Mop-up UTME for Friday, 6th August 2021, in some selected locations across the nation.
“The rescheduled candidates are to print fresh examination notification slips containing the venue and time of the examination. The slips are to be printed from the JAMB website, https://www.jamb.gov.
“The Board strongly advises candidates to avoid supplying their important information including registration numbers to fraudsters who are bound especially in a cyber cafe, tutorial centres springing up almost everywhere in the nation as a result of the illicit activities of examination syndicates.
“CBT centres approved by JAMB, which is consistently monitored, are relatively more secured for printing examination notification slips by candidates who cannot print such on their own.”
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