OVER 200,000 UTME RESULTS RELEASED – OJERINDE

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says it has released the results of over 200,000 candidates who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination, UTME, which began on Saturday.

While thousands of candidates are still waiting to sit for the 2016 UTME, the Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said on Tuesday in Abuja, that the candidates, who had already sat for the examination should visit the JAMB website to check their results.

“Over 200,000 results have so far been released. We have always advised candidates to indicate the correct telephone number through which they could receive SMS and get their results. But some candidates continue to make the mistake of giving us the telephone number of the business centres where they registered for the examination.”

He stated that the National Communications Commission to create at least four new CBT centres annually.

“The NCC has been mandated to give us at least four centres every year; meanwhile, the first four are fully completed. The next four would soon be built and with time, all the nooks and crannies of the country will have functional CBT centres” he said.

Ojerinde also spoke on the improvements the board had made in the conduct of the exams. He said, “We have made improvement from that of last year; for instance, we now have calculator on the screen.