UTME 2024: JAMB Takes Action Ahead of Supplementary Exam

UTME 2024: JAMB Takes Action Ahead of Supplementary Exam

  • Professor Ishaq Olarewaju Oloyede, the registrar of JAMB, has met with some UTME CBT centres
  • Legit.ng recalls that the affected centres had their UTME 2024 examinations cancelled on account of substantial non-compliance with laid-down rules and regulations
  • Ahead of the rescheduled exam, Prof. Oloyede explained why 24,535 candidates would sit the UTME later in June

Legit.ng journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering education in Nigeria and worldwide.

FCT, Abuja - The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has advised computer-based test (CBT) centres billed to host the upcoming supplementary UTME, to be wary of the pitfalls of others during the just-concluded 2024 UTME that led to the rescheduling of the examination.

Legit.ng reports that the examination is slated for Friday, 21st and Saturday, June 22, 2024.

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A total of 24,535 candidates would sit the rescheduled UTME examination in 18 centres across Akwa Ibom, Delta, Edo and Kwara states. Photos credit: Prof Is'haq O. Oloyede
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According to JAMB's latest bulletin, the body's registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, at a virtual meeting with affected centres, which was hosted from the headquarters of the agency on Friday, June 7, 2024, urged centres to avoid any forms of infractions that could undermine the examination and attract sanctions from the Board.

It would be recalled that the affected centres had their examinations cancelled on account of substantial non-compliance with laid-down rules and regulations.

Prof. Oloyede frowned at the level of alleged laxity and compromise witnessed in many of the centres stating that the board would not tolerate "anything that would negatively impact its image."

Furthermore, he explained that the decision to reschedule the examination was considering there might be innocent candidates among the candidates so as not to subject them to punishment unjustly.

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Earlier, Legit.ng reported that JAMB announced that 24,535 candidates of the 2024 UTME have been rescheduled to retake the exercise at their chosen examination towns on Saturday, June 22, 2024.

The examination board also announced that the 3,921 results of the 2024 UTME, which were earlier withheld for further investigation, have been released.

Source: Legit.ng

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Ridwan Adeola (Current Affairs Editor) Ridwan Adeola Yusuf is a Current Affairs Editor at Legit.ng and a certified journalist with over 9 years of experience. He edited Politics Nigeria's articles, was the Acting Editor of AllNews Nigeria and Fact-Checking Researcher (Africa Check). He received his HND in Mass Communication from The Polytechnic Ibadan. He received a Certificate of Achievement (Journalism Clinic’s Fix The Leak masterclass, 2021) and also completed Google News Initiative's Advance digital reporting curriculum. Contact him at ridwan.adeola@corp.legit.ng.