We’ll investigate candidates’ inability to do biometric verification — JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it'll investigate mentioned cases of incapacity of a few candidates to do biometric verification as the 2019 /20 Unified Tertiary Matriculation exam started on Thursday .
The board’ s Head of Media and publicity, Dr . Fabian Benjamin , disclosed this to the information corporation of Nigeria in a cellphone interview on Friday in Abuja .
Benjamin also stated that the release of the results could no longer be instantaneous , as the board became taking time to process earlier than liberating them if you want to avoid a couple of cancellations .
At the biometric verification , Benjamin said that the board turned into searching into all suggested cases and would take a decision soon .
“ we will take a look at the cases brought before us to understand if they're actual demanding situations or part of malpractice .
“ that is due to the fact, we determined that a few applicants have accomplished something , and that they intend to take gain of the biometric verification project as an excuse . So , we want to check the genuineness of these cases .
“ I guarantee you we are looking at it and might do something . ”
NAN reports that the 2019/ 20 UTME which started on Thursday , April eleven nationwide became no longer absolutely hitch - free , as some candidates complained of their incapability to be confirmed via the biometric process , both at the start or at quit of the examination.
However , NAN additionally reviews that some centres recorded smooth behavior of the system , as over 1 . 8 million candidates who registered for the exercising were predicted to sit for it from April 11 to April 15 in the 698 laptop based test centres throughout the country
The board’ s Head of Media and publicity, Dr . Fabian Benjamin , disclosed this to the information corporation of Nigeria in a cellphone interview on Friday in Abuja .
Benjamin also stated that the release of the results could no longer be instantaneous , as the board became taking time to process earlier than liberating them if you want to avoid a couple of cancellations .
At the biometric verification , Benjamin said that the board turned into searching into all suggested cases and would take a decision soon .
“ we will take a look at the cases brought before us to understand if they're actual demanding situations or part of malpractice .
“ that is due to the fact, we determined that a few applicants have accomplished something , and that they intend to take gain of the biometric verification project as an excuse . So , we want to check the genuineness of these cases .
“ I guarantee you we are looking at it and might do something . ”
NAN reports that the 2019/ 20 UTME which started on Thursday , April eleven nationwide became no longer absolutely hitch - free , as some candidates complained of their incapability to be confirmed via the biometric process , both at the start or at quit of the examination.
However , NAN additionally reviews that some centres recorded smooth behavior of the system , as over 1 . 8 million candidates who registered for the exercising were predicted to sit for it from April 11 to April 15 in the 698 laptop based test centres throughout the country
