No fewer than 62,140 candidates have been ordered by the Joint Examination and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to re-sit for the 2017 Unified Tertiary matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, at a press briefing after a management meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, said the rescheduled exams will hold July 1.
The board also suspended 24 centres for one year due to technical issues. It said the affected centres may be considered for 2019 exams.
The 62,140 cancelled results include of 57,646 candidates in centres-induced malpractice, 3,811 late registration, and 683 candidates who had biometric challenges.
JAMB further cancelled the results of another 2,052 individual candidates found culpable of examination malpractice.
Oloyede said the management meeting had approved the “delisting of forty-eight (48) centres from participating in the board’s examination in future as a result of serious technical deficiencies, extortion, organised examination malpractice and other damaging infractions”.
He explained that the rescheduled examination was for candidates of centres with mass malpractice but who were deemed innocent.
“The rescheduling of examination is for: biometric non verification machine related issues, technical and log out issues, late registration, malfunctioning of servers at the centre and incomplete results,” he said.
JAMB added that 1,722,236 candidates registered for the 2017 unified Tertiary Matriculation Board, which is the highest figure ever in the history of the exams.
