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44-year-old Candidate Scores Highest In JME
A 44-YEAR old man, Mr. Oluwafemi James Atoyebi from Kwara State was one of the two candidates who scored the highest marks in the just-released Universities Matriculation Examinations (UME)
Mr. Quadri Abayomi Muraina from Oyo State came second with 317 points, and the third position jointly occupied by Olatoye Olusola Akinbo from Ogun State and Solomon Onyedikachi Unekeh from Ebonyi State.
Announcing this to journalists in Abuja yesterday, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB)Professor Bello A. Salim, said out of the 908,847 candidates that filled and returned their forms, 31,429 were absent at the examination, and 95,985 candidates have their results cancelled.
He noted that Imo State tops the list of the six states whose candidates recorded the highest number of applicants, followed by Delta, Anambra, Edo, Ogun and Abia. Zamfara, Jigawa, Yobe, Kebbi, Sokoto and Taraba, in that order recorded the lowest number of applicants.
Candidates desiring to read Social Science-related courses constitute about 25 per cent of the total number of applicants, followed by Administration Medical Sciences and Engineering.
There is a remarkable improvement in the number of female applicants this year, 385,843 female candidates applying (with Imo, Anambra and Delta jointly contributing 112,109 female candidates), as against the 353,834 last year.
While lamenting the 17,439 cases of unscannable scripts due to multiple, incorrect and incomplete shading, and blank scripts, Salim said cases of examination malpractices continued to rear its ugly head in the system.
He stated: "It is quite disheartening that officials of some universities entrusted with the administration of the UME often turn around to collude with candidates
to undermine the integrity and credibility of the examination."
He specifically mentioned a J. O. Babawale, who supervised centre 11865, Mavik Leaders College in Apapa who offered N10, 000 to a member of staff of the Board Mr. Ado Sani, to aid and possibly 'be blind' to cheating and other vices at the centre. Sani has already tendered the money as evidence in his report.
The Registrar decried the various dimensions adopted to facilitate cheating during exams. Citing the case of 4,254 candidates in Odi, Bayelsa State, who after being admitted in the hall and given question papers and answer scripts absconded with their answer scripts. The supervisor had to return with empty examination box.
According to him, with the connivance of parents, supervisors and touts, various forms of malpractices were committed in 43 different examination towns, therefore results in 205 centres are withheld, with 83,455 candidates affected. The highest record of these cases is Lagos, 70; Rivers, 36 and Imo State, 24.
He further regretted that some centres that have consistent cases of irregularities would be deleted from the list of the centres to be used next year.
He further advised that candidates can check their results at any office of the Board across the country as well as the headquarters in Abuja or the Annexes in Lagos and Kaduna. Or JAMB online nformation service.
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