UTME 2020: JAMB not rescheduled

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has moved the dates of the examinations to end on Saturday and early days of next week in Bayelsa and Rivers State.

Onyxnewsng understands that this information was contained in a statement by the JAMB Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin. He stated that the examination has not been rescheduled as speculated. He also said candidates have been contacted to reprint their slips.

He said, “The board has not rescheduled its examination as being speculated. All examination will be finishing on Saturday with only few centres in Bayelsa and Rivers who will be writing in the early days of next week.

“The board in its determined efforts to give the candidates the best has adjusted the schedules of the remaining candidates in these two states. We have also contacted the few candidates to reprint their slips.”

This online news platform reported in another development that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released Tuesday 2020 UTME results.

On Tuesday 17, March, 450,000 candidates sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) nationwide, and the results were released on the following day which is Wednesday 18, March 2020.

The board’s Head of Public Affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin revealed this.

He also revealed that fraudsters were extorting money from the candidates to access the results.

Benjamin urged UTME candidate to disregard such false information. He said results of other examination days would continue to be released as the examinations were taken.

“The results of the first day were placed on the website and some fraudulent individuals were coping and manipulating it to deceive unsuspecting candidates. Hence, our decision to move it to the mobile platform for candidates to use their unique phone numbers used in registering for the examination to access their results,” he said.

“In few days, we will be concluding the 2020 exercise and we urge the candidates to be vigilant as many fraudsters who could not operate, given the security measures put in place to secure our system, will want to use every opportunity of information gap to defraud or mislead unsuspecting candidates,” Dr Fabian said.