The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, today July 14 released
the results of the 2017 university admission supplementary examination
that was held on July 1.
The
supplementary examination was an avenue created by JAMB to allow late
registration candidates for the first exams, and those will related
challenges write the partake in this year’s exams.
A minimum of 85,000 candidates were billed to write the test, Premium Times reports.
1,718,425
candidates who registered and sat for the just concluded Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) across the federation, only
1,606,901 results have been released by the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB). The registrar of JAMB Ishaq Oloyede
disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, May 31.
Oloyede
stated that the decision to withhold some 76,923 results out of the
80,889 outstanding was deliberately taken by the board due to alleged
exam malpractices in some of the examination centers.
The
results were released within 24 hours of the examination and the
registrar disclosed that the outstanding results would be released soon