UTME: 82,000 candidates had incomplete results in 2010 - JAMB

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that over 82,000 candidates had incomplete results in 2010 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The registrar and chief executive of the Board, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, who disclosed this said that, asum of N48 million has been set aside for a Train the Trainers Project aimed at reducing to the bearest minimum the incidence of incomplete results in future UTME.Ojerinde said even though the figure was less than eight per cent of the total number of registered candidates, the number was still high.He said: Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is worried hence it has resolved to check the menace of incomplete result in the next examination.Meanwile, in order to ensure ahitch free 2011 UTME scheduled for June 11, 2011, the JAMB boss said that the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Hafiz Ringim and his team had assuredJAMB thatthe Police Force would collaborate with the Board in checking examination malpractices.A statement in Abuja by JAMBs Public Relations Officer, Mr Timothy Oyedeji, said the Director, Information Technology Services, (ITS) Mr Olujide Adisa, and JAMB were working to ensure hitch-free biometric system and success in the registration and conduct of the forthcoming UTME. Adisa was quoted to have said that this was aimed at reducing the incidence of incomplete results which had characterised previous examinations.He made the comments at a maiden training session for UTME coordinators, the first in the series of training programmes for all categories of stakeholders in the conduct of the examinations.
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