Category: EDUCATION

The House of Representatives has waded into the allegation of result forgery leveled by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) against a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, MmesomaEjikeme.The lawmakers expressed concerns that the exam body acted in an unprofessional manner in a matter involving a minor by withdrawing the candidate’s result and banning her for three years.They said the girl may have been manipulated by an adult.The House subsequently set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the...

The candidate at the center of a UTME results forgery allegation, MmesomaEjikeme, says the three-year ban instituted against her by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is “not fair”.The 19-year-old claims her “results notification” slip for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination showing a score of 362 out of 400 was printed from the JAMB results portal, but the board argues she is parading a forged result on a template it discontinued in 2021.On Tuesday, JAMB insisted that her result...

A 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate from Anambra State, Ejikeme Mmesoma says she was falsely accused of forging her result by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).Mmesoma, in a video she released that has gone viral,  narrated how she obtained the result from the JAMB portal and was surprised when she heard stories of the forged results.She said she is traumatized that they accused her of forging her own result, adding that she is not capable of...