The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the results of 1,792,719 candidates who sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Similarly, the board had withheld the results of 34,120 for various infractions. JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede broke the news to reporters on Saturday in Abuja, the nation’s Capital. Details Later…. -THE NATION
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board said that it would release the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results on Saturday. The Board’s Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this to newsmen on Friday in Abuja. According to him, the Board will meet and consider the details available to be announced to the general public. “We are releasing our results tomorrow; we are having a meeting today to consider what to put out,” he said. The 2019 UTME was held from April 11 to April 18 with over 1.8 million registered candidates.…
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Nigerian Union of Teachers(NUT) has appealed to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to release the results of the candidates who were not involved in examination malpractices during the 2019 UTME’s examinations. Its chairman for Lagos State wing, Mr Adesina Adedoyin, made the appeal on Tuesday in Lagos in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The union said the release should be for candidates who wrote the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) and were found to be innocent. He said that the examination body should sieve the…
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The results of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be released as soon as reports from the 687 Computer Based Test centres used for the conduct of the examination are reviewed, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, has said. The board said the review of reports from these centres will be concluded on Monday or Tuesday. JAMB spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said this in an interview with our reporter on Monday in Abuja. He attributed the delay in releasing the results to fraudulent practices of some candidates who…
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Jare OLUKOTUN The Management of Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, which has been at loggerhead with its staff members for a while now, has denied any involvement in the arrest and subsequent trial of eight of the staff members of the institution contrary to what is being peddled in some quarters and on social media. The affected staff members are currently facing trial for allegedly assaulting JAMB officials last month. Those arrested, who are members of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP) and Academic Staff…
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THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board yesterday explained why it has not released the results of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Some of the candidates engaged in massive fraud and impersonation, thus putting their results in doubt, the board said. The Nation newspaper reports that the JAMB’s Head of Information Dr. Fabian Benjamin told reporters in Abuja yesterday that the board has started screening the results of all the candidates who wrote the examination and that it would release it as soon as it the process is concluded.…
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Kunle ADELABU An international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in the United States of America (USA), Distance Relatives, has donated educational materials to the pupils of Aga primary School in Ikorodu. The event, which took place on Sunday, April 14 and Monday, April, 15, 2019, was facilitated by the three-term representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency and the Senior Special Assistant to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora Affairs, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa. Educational items like exercise books, pens , pencils , crayons, school bags and trainers were donated to the pupils. Miss Afolayan…
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Kunle ADELABU The Oriwu College Old Students Associaton of Nigeria (OCOSAN), the umbrella body of the ex-students of the premier college in Ikorodu, has announced the postponement of the week-long celebration marking the school’s 70th anniversary to June this year. The celebration, which was earlier fixed for May 2019, has now been rescheduled to hold between Saturday, June 8 and Saturday, June 15, 2019, due to the Ramadan fasting which would be coming up in May. The release by the National Secretary of the association, Mr Kunle Olambiwonnu, announcing the postponement states that : “Oriwu College…
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Jare OLUKOTUN The management of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Ikorodu, has stated that the just concluded 2018/18 examinations of the institution were conducted in line with the best global practices. The institution’s management also debunked claim that the examinations were fraudulent. These statements were coming on the heel of an alleged claim by a staff of the institution who, during an interview with a news medium (not THE IMPACT), cast aspersion on the conduct of the examinations. In a statement issued by the Deputy Registrar, Information and Public Relations of the institution ,…
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Kunle ADELABU The 15th edition of the Lateef Lamina Memorial (LATLAM) Montessori, Nursery and College held at the Oriwu Model College playing ground on Thursday, April 11, 2019, has been won by the Green house with 15 gold, 13 silver, and 6 bronze. The house also scored 72% to win the match past of the sporting competition which was chaired by Comrade Japheth Odesanya, the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of the Factor Newsmagazine and former Secretary to the Ikorodu Local Government. Blue house emerged the 1st runner-up with 14 gold, 6 silver and…
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