The joint admissions and matriculation board (JAMB) says it has scheduled a nationwide mop-up unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) for Saturday, June 28.
According to a statement issued on Sunday by Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s spokesperson, the mop-up examination is aimed at accommodating 96,838 eligible candidates, including those affected by biometric verification failures, absenteeism, and security-related issues during the main and resit exams.
Benjamin said the examination would accommodate the 5,096 spill-over candidates.
He added that 91,742 candidates who were absent from both or either of the main and resit examinations would also be given the opportunity.
He noted that the 96,838 candidates are being rescheduled for a mop-up exercise across 183 centres.
Benjamin said a large number of CBT centres implicated for sharp practices in the ongoing security investigation are being suspended, while those found guilty are delisted.
“Consequently, 113 CBT centres have been delisted or suspended from across the country. Some other implicated in multiple infractions in the main or resit examinations exercise,” he said.
He added that several examination towns are no longer eligible to be used for the mop-up examinations.
“The few candidates who fall into the deactivated examination towns would be assigned to examination towns closest to the delisted towns,” he said.
“Institutions of apprehended undergraduates are already being notified of the gross misconduct of their students to invoke the violation of the matriculation oath already taken by the students to flush them out of the various tertiary institutions, in addition to their prosecution under the examination malpractice Act, 1999 which makes provisions for imprisonment even of the under-aged and their indulgent parents.”
He advised eligible candidates to print their examination notification slips from Monday, June 23, in preparation for the mop-up examination.
