The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board, JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, yesterday in
Lagos said that out of the 1,648,429 million
candidates writing the ongoing UTME, the results of
1,048,914 have been released.
This was just as he also announced the extension of
JAMB’s portal for registration, adding that it will
finally close its registration portal on 28th May.
He said that in addition to the 1,048,914 results that
have been released, over 30,406 results are also
ready for upload before midnight today.
He said: “As at today, 1,648, 429 are taking our
examination and we have released the result of
1,048,914. That is the result we have released up till
yesterday. 
“On the first day, we released the results
of Sunday because anything you call CBT, the results
are ready, but for environmental reasons, we do not
release the results immediately.
“That is to ensure we go through the CCTV
camera to see whether there are report of
malpractice and prevent the situation whereby those
who do not pass become agitated at the CBT
centres.
“We have released the results
of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and we are
going to release today’s result before 12 midnight.
This morning, the results of 30,046 will be release.
Asked the performances of candidates results so far,
he said: “The candidates have not done badly from
the resrults released so far.” As soon as the last
person finished writing the last paper today, we will
upload additional over 30,406 results before 12
midnight today.”
Oloyede, also disclosed that JAMB’s portal for
registration has not closed, adding that it will finally
close its registration portal on 28th May. He said that
he got the mandate from the Senate few weeks ago
to increase the UTME registration period by one
month, which according to him will elapse on 28th of
May. “As I speak, we have registered additional 1,100
candidates,” he added.
Oloyede who disclosed during this during his visit to
one of the CBT Centres in Lagos said that in 2018,
fingers print may no longer be required.
He explained: We have now been able to catch those
people who registered two people with the same
names. The impersonator and the one being
impersonated went in collaboration with the CBT
centres after screening them.”
He said: “Both the impersonator and one being
impersonated used each fingers. While, the
impersonator used two thumb fingers, the
impersonated used eight fingers to register.
Thus, we have ten registered fingers and the ten
fingers were not from one person.
“In some centres, when we tested all their fingers, we
discovered that they were impersonator who had
used two of their fingers thumbs in both hands.
“By next year, we may not use finger print, there are
other technologies whereby with the technology,
everything about the candidate is captured. We need
to move in that direction.”
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