The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has recorded a huge success in the conduct of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) in eight countries.
The countries include United Kingdom (UK), Cameroon, Benin Republic, Cรดte dโIvoire and South Africa.
The boardโs Head of Media and Information Department, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos.
According to him, no fewer than 297 foreign candidates participated in the 2018 UTME in the countries conducted on Saturday, under the supervision of some foreign nationals, who came to understudy the process.
Benjamin said the foreigners were elated by what they saw that an African country could achieve and sustain such a feat.
He said: โThe examination was conducted yesterday in not less than eight foreign countries under the watch of some foreign nationals.
โAs usual, it was well attended and very successful. All resources to ensure the smooth conduct of the examination were readily deployed by the board.
โWe are indeed happy to have achieved yet another feat, especially as we had people who came around to observe and understudy the process.
โThey were happy as well as impressed with what they saw on ground. We know it can only be better because we have the capacity and all it takes to move this country to the next level.โ
Benjamin added: โAgain, we are not just conducting the examination in these countries because of the number of candidates that indicate interest but because we also want to showcase Nigeriaโs giant strides in technological advancement on the global scene.โ
The board has, however, distanced itself from a purported cutoff mark being circulated in some sections of the media, saying it did not emanate from it.
Benjamin said no such cutoff mark, whether for programmes or institutions had been released by JAMB as was being speculated.
โWe want to seize this medium to debunk such rumours as they are malicious and wicked as they are designed to defraud innocent Nigerians, especially parents and guardians as well as other stakeholders.
โNo cutoff marks will ever be decided upon without the usual policy meeting which has been scheduled to hold sometime in June and which is to be chaired by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu.
โUntil that is done, every other thing that is being paraded as cutoff mark is fictitious and therefore, the public is hereby warned not to fall prey to these fraudsters,โ Benjamin warned.
He said as a board, the management would continue to uphold standards and due process to protect the integrity of its examinations and process.
