Category: EDUCATION

The candidate at the heart of a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results in forgery debacle, MmesomaEjikeme, has written to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) asking for leniency.The 19-year-old on Wednesday read a letter of apology before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on the manipulation in Abuja.According to JAMB, Mmesoma had claimed a score of 362 as opposed to her official score of 249.The Board however presented evidence indicating that Mmesoma had requested her result via...

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...