JAMB fixes August 6 for 18,000 to retake exam

By Modupe Shodeinde

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed Friday, August 6, 2021, for 18,000 candidates who missed the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to retake the examination.

JAMB’s Head of Media, Fabian Benjamin, in a statement yesterday, said the examination will take place in some select locations across the country.

The statement said the candidates were being notified through text messages on their designated phone numbers and their JAMB profiles.

It directed the affected candidates to print fresh examination notification slips containing the venue and time of the examination from JAMB’s website from August 1.

It however noted that candidates whose results have been duly released, will not be rescheduled for another examination, contrary to the sponsored fake news being circulated on the social.

According to the statement, those affected include:
“Candidates who could not be initially scheduled for examination owing to their inability to timely procure and supply their mandatory NINs or profile codes until after the close of the registration and, therefore, had to purchase Bank Drafts (as against the usual vending of PINs) after the scheduled period for the examination and were later registered.

“Few candidates who encountered peculiar biometric verification problem, or who failed biometric verification on the examination date (and were recaptured) but were not allowed to partake in the examination.

“(Adequate screening arrangements have been made to re-verify such claims and any candidate found to be involved in any form of impersonation will be identified for prosecution).

“Candidates who were unable to sit for the UTME owing to the clash of timetables of the UTME and the then ongoing NABTEB examinations and whose particulars have been verified and supplied directly to JAMB by NABTEB, and,

“Candidates who have been ascertained by JAMB to have experienced genuine rescheduling/technical problems, as was the case in 30 of the 760 centres used for the examination.

The candidates were advised to avoid supplying vital information to fraudsters who abound in cybercafes and tutorial centers.

“CBT centres approved by JAMB, which are consistently monitored, are relatively more secured for printing examination notification slips by candidates who cannot print such on their own.” the statement added.