Jamb Sets 62,000+ Candidates Having Issues to Rewrite on 1st July
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday said that 62,140 candidates, who had issues with late registration, biometric non-verification and cancellation of results would have to rewrite the examination. The board said the rescheduled examination would hold on 1st of July 2017 across the candidates’ centres. JAMB Registrar Is-haq Oloyede spoke yesterday after a meeting of the board’s management with chief external examiners and other major stakeholders on the conduct of 2017 UTME, at its headquarters, Bwari, Abuja. Oloyede said the meeting candidates approved the cancellation of the results of 1,386 candidates for examination He added that these candidates would not be allowed to rewrite the examination. The JAMB registrar said: “The meeting approved the cancellation of the results of 1,386 individual candidates found culpable of examination malpractice. The cancellation of results of 57,646 in centres-induced malpractice. The cancellation of the two re...