News Editor
Peter Jerome
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of results of candidates who sat for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
This was contained in a statement by the board’s Head of Information and Media Fabian Benjamin, on Friday.
In an examination that was conducted in more than 720 CBT centers, Fabian advised each concerned candidate to check his/her result by sending UTMERESULT to 55019 through the GSM number used by each candidate to obtain profile code and UTME registration with the Board and their results would be relayed to them.
He stated that result for subsequent days would be released daily.
The Board equally acknowledge with satisfaction that the utilization of NIN (National Identification Number) helped in curbing examination malpractices as the 2021 UTME has recorded the least incidence of irregularities since the inception of the CBT examinations in Nigeria.
Fabian added that nevertheless, the Board would still review all the CCTV footages and other technical gadgets for detection of possible examination misconducts.
He stated, “extremely comparatively few results are being withheld for further investigation. In addition, the Board would not hesitate to withdraw the results of any candidate subsequently found to have committed any form of examination misconduct.”
The examination was conducted between Saturday, 19th and Tuesday, 22 June 2021.
