{"id":12036,"date":"2019-06-27T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=12036"},"modified":"2019-06-27T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:02:59","slug":"2019-utme-jamb-withdraws-results-of-4-candidates-over-alleged-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/2019-utme-jamb-withdraws-results-of-4-candidates-over-alleged-forgery","title":{"rendered":"2019 UTME: JAMB Withdraws Results Of 4 Candidates Over Alleged Forgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has withdrawn the results of four candidates who participated at its 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).<\/p>\n<p>This was announced in a statement by the board\u2019s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the candidates are found to have attempted to fraudulently increase their scores at the examination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the candidates, who is the main culprit, had claimed that he initially scored 290 and that it was eventually reduced to 153.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing this claim, he was invited by the board\u2019s headquarters for proper screening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIT WAS AT THIS POINT THAT IT WAS DISCOVERED AND PROVED TO HIM THAT HIS CLAIM WAS UNTRUE AND AS SUCH, HE HAS BEEN DEEPLY INVOLVED IN SERIOUS INFRACTION AND FORGERY OF THE EXAMINATION RESULT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHE, HOWEVER, EVENTUALLY CONFESSED TO THE FORGERY.<\/p>\n<p>FURTHER CHECKS ON HIS HANDSET ALSO REVEALED THAT HE WAS NOT ALONE AS THERE WAS EVIDENCE THAT HE HAD EQUALLY BEEN PATRONISED BY THREE OTHER CANDIDATES WITH THEIR REGISTRATION NUMBERS AND NAMES STATED CLEARLY, FOR POSSIBLE ILLICIT UPGRADE AND FAKING OF RESULTS,\u201d THE STATEMENT SAID.<\/p>\n<p>ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENT, NO EFFORTS WILL BE SPARED BY THE BOARD, IN IDENTIFYING AND SANCTIONING ANY CANDIDATE OR PERSONS WHO ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THE INTEGRITY OF THE BOARD\u2019S EXAMINATION BY WHATEVER MEANS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has withdrawn the results of four candidates who participated at its 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This was announced in a statement by the board\u2019s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin in Lagos. According to the statement, the candidates are found to have attempted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[38,610,206,658],"class_list":["post-12036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-election","tag-jamb","tag-lagos","tag-utme"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2019 UTME: JAMB Withdraws Results Of 4 Candidates Over Alleged Forgery - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/2019-utme-jamb-withdraws-results-of-4-candidates-over-alleged-forgery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2019 UTME: JAMB Withdraws Results Of 4 Candidates Over Alleged Forgery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has withdrawn the results of four candidates who participated at its 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). 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