•Board releases results of Saturday examination
Some syndicate groups are selling past question papers of
the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for N200,000 to
candidates, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Prof.
Is-haq Oloyede alleged yesterday.
Oloyede warned candidates against falling victims to the
fraudsters, who claim to have prepared answers to the examination questions
being conducted by JAMB.
He spoke during the monitoring of the ongoing UTME
examination with Minister of State for Education Prof. Anthony Anwukah in
Abuja.
Oloyede and Anwukah visited Digital Bridge Institute, Global
Learning Institute, Sascon International School and the JAMB CBT Centre in
Kogo, Bwari.
According to him, some of the fraudulent persons simply take
past question papers and redesign them by changing the date and then sell same
to gullible candidates, who might not have prepared well for the examination.
He said some candidates fell for the trick, paying huge sums
of money to purchase the question papers only to be disappointed on the
examination day.
Oloyede said: “This morning, somebody sent me questions.
They call it Orijo and he bought it for N200,000 and when I saw it, it was our
questions in 1984 and he just put 2017 on it and started selling it and people
are buying it.
“So, if people are corrupt, I won’t have any sympathy if
they are duped by corrupt people like themselves. They are just being wise.
They went into the past questions of JAMB and just changed the heading.
“Somebody else called me and said he had all my questions. I
asked him to send them to me and when I checked, I just laughed because none of
that was in our questions. What people are just doing, they are making money
because people are gullible.
“We appeal to people to do things according to the rules. No
cutting of corners will work with JAMB and that is why many of the candidates
who fell for such blackmail are disappointed.”
The registrar said the board has released the results of the
examination conducted on Saturday.
Oloyede, who expressed satisfaction in the smooth conduct of
the examination so far, decried the poor performance of students from the
results of Saturday’s examination.
He said: “The result of UTME has come out and the
performance is not too bad. But we are sure that this is the performance now
rather than thinking you can get result one way or the other.”
He said arrangements are being made by the board to transfer
its candidates at the two CBT centres in Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Oyo State to University of Ilorin to write
their examination.
He said about 440,000 candidates out of the 1.7 million that
registered for the UTME sat for the examination on the second day.
Oloyede added that the examinations would end in Bauchi,
Abia, Niger states and some other states yesterday.
The JAMB registrar added that the UTME would continue in
Kebbi, Lagos, Oyo and some other states.
Prof. Anwukah hailed the board for smooth conduct of the
examination.
The minister called on candidates to put in their best for
the UTME and shun any act of malpractices.
“This is excellent. Everything is in place and everything is
going well based on what we have seen. The candidates should do their best and
should not cheat. And of course, they cannot cheat,” he said.
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