UTME Results: Will candidates be able to check out JAMB exam grade today?

Those who wrote the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been told by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to monitor their profile code and enrollment details well. The profile code would be used to check their result which will be released soon.

NIGERIA NEWS has earlier reported that the board are on a mission to clean up the system and rid it off some fraudsters who are exploiting innocent candidates.

Dr Fabian Benjamin, the head of information for the exam board gives this exhortation yesterday in Abuja. There, he revealed that the board had verified the conviction of three people who were arrested for impersonation amid the examination. These wrongdoers will serve a two-year prison term.

Benjamin says the board found that some fraudsters used enlistment numbers of applicants to access their data, making use of it to dupe unsuspecting candidates.

He explained that, if anyone other than the candidate have access to the profile code or registration of any candidate, that person can use this to do “many things to the candidate”.

In his words, “We have discovered that some of these fraudsters are using candidates’ registration numbers to have access to their information. You know you can use a registration number to print examination notification and because of the public outcry that we should make it free for candidates to print from any point, they can print at home and from anywhere.

“If somebody lays hold on your registration number with your profile code, he/she can print your examination notification slip. He/she is not printing it to go and use for examination but on that notification, your phone number is there and other details.

“Once they have your phone number, they will begin to send you messages. There was a video in circulation where a man called a candidate and claimed to be a JAMB official. The impostor said he had checked his (candidate’s) result and that there was a problem with it and that the candidate should send money so that he would rectify it. If he didn’t have the phone number, he will not have had access to him (candidate).

“That is why we are saying guard your registration number and profile code jealously, like your ATM pin. This is because once an unauthorised person with dubious intent has a hold on it, they will use it to do so many things to you.”