Makegood:JAMB Begins Rescheduling Of UTME For Affected 379,997 Candidates
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has begun the rescheduling of the 379,997 affected candidates for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination.
This was coming after the registrar of the examination body, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, admitted errors in the just-concluded exam affecting 206,610 candidates in 65 centres in Lagos and 92 centres in Owerri zone, comprising 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East.
Oloyede, who fought back tears during the press conference, asked for forgiveness from the affected candidates.
OSUN DEFENDER reports that the results of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, have generated lots of controversies.
Meanwhile, one of the candidates who sat for the exam, Faith Timileyin, tragically took her own life on Monday after reportedly scoring 190 in the recently released UTME.
The JAMB Registrar, said, “The affected candidates will start getting text messages for reschedule starting from tomorrow.
“I apologise, I take full responsibility.”
However, in the reprinted exam slip sighted by our correspondent, one of the affected candidates has been rescheduled to take her exam on Saturday, May 17, 2025 by 12noon in one of the Lagos centres in Igando community situated at the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Sam Udekwe is a journalist working in the News and Current Affairs department, Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) Enugu. He is well trained in all genres of journalistic venture.
Mr Sam read Mass Communication, graduating all with Distinction in National Diploma, Higher National Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma at IMT, Enugu and Madonna University, Okija, Anambra state, while he is presently on his M.Sc programme also in Mass Communication, at National Open University of Nigeria.
He was the NUJ Chairman, Enugu state who handed over to the Caretaker Committee currently in the Council.
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