Dissatisfied with decision of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to withhold information about its top scorers in the recently released 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results, an Abuja based lawyer, Chief Chukwuma Nwachukwu, has invoked the Freedom of Information Act, FOI, against the examination body.
The legal practitioner, in a letter he forwarded to JAMB, requested to be furnished with names and scores of the 10 best candidates in the 2024 UTME, within seven days, in line with provisions of the FOI Act.
Consequently, he specifically asked the Registrar General of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, to supply him with: “The names and scores of the 10 best students and their respective performances in the above examination.” “Take Notice that the aforesaid law further provides that I should receive the information applied for within 7 days.
Statistics released by the body showed that out of 1,904,189 candidates that sat for the exams, 1,402,490 of the students scored below 200.Rector reads riot act to students as Federal Poly, Ilaro matriculates 8,740The statistics also showed that results of 64,624 candidates were withheld. “The Board is today releasing the results of 1,842,464 candidates.
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