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JAMB bows, to reschedule UTME exams

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The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, has revealed that the board will reschedule exams for candidates who missed the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination because of relocation of centres.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja yesterday, Prof. Ojerinde said the board earlier relocated 59, 000 candidates in 15 states because of problems in some of the centres.

It also said candidates who had system failure during the examination would retake it, if the board finds their complaint to be genuine.

Continuing, Prof. Ojerinde said the new development does not apply to candidates who missed the exam deliberately or those who failed.

“We relocated candidates where the board had challenges. The board is looking at some of the issues raised during the examination, but most of the excuses raised by candidates are flimsy,” he said.

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“We relocated about 59, 000 candidates due to the problems in various centres which vary from town to town. There are about 59,000 of them spread across 15 states of the federation.

“Those that were relocated never suffered any setback or inconvenience. For all these two sets of people, I want to apologise sincerely for what happened to them, but we are going to put on a redress for those whose relocation affected them in missing their examination.

“Let me use this opportunity to offer explanation on the issue of the much-publicized two results. The process of our marking involves transformation and other qualitative programming. In the process of these configurations, we had a little challenge which we quickly corrected and ensured that this never happened in subsequent results. This challenge was only associated with the candidates that sat for this examination on Saturday, 27, and some candidates of Monday, 29 February, 2016.”

Continuing, Prof. Ojerinde about 500 CBT centres were compromised by the operators while also blaming education consultants for mobilizing candidates to protest against the conduct of the examination by the board.

“In our quest to have adequate and effective centres for the exercise, we approved over 500 centres, but unfortunately, some of the centre operators were not sincere in proving us with the true position of their facilities.

“They hired equipment during the period of accreditation and other necessary apparatus and on the examination day, they were found wanting. This led to relocation or rescheduling of candidates from some of them to more suitable centres.” He said.

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