The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday released the results of 1.5 million candidates, who sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The board, in a statement by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, in Abuja yesterday, said it decided to release the results after considering reports of its supervisors’ CCTV footages during the conduct of the examination.
He said the results of 112,331 and those of visually-impaired candidates are yet to be released.
Benjamin added that the board was screening the results of 111,981 candidates, which has been withheld.
The statement reads: “After viewing all CCTV footages during the conduct of the 2018 UTME and considering reports from our supervisors, monitors and other independent Nigerians, who took interest in promoting the quality of public examination in Nigeria, the JAMB has released the results of 1,502,978 candidates who sat for the 2018 UTME.
“A total of 1,652,825 candidates had indicated interest in the examination by registering for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
“One hundred and twelve thousand, three hundred and thirty-one candidates’ results are yet to be released out of which 350 are the results of the blind candidates, which would be released soon and 111,981 results withheld for further screening.
“The figure above excludes foreign candidates, whose examination would be conducted in April.”