This was reported by the News Agency of Nigeria as follows:
Hundreds of students, who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday in Kano staged a peaceful demonstration against mass failure and withholding of their results.
The students stormed the premises of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria in Kano on motorcycles around noon and carried placards and green leaves to show their anger.
Spokesman for the candidates, Haruna Maidabam, described the withholding of their results as a deliberate attempt to deny them the opportunity to further their studies.
According to him, more than 10, 000 students who sat for the examination in Kano metropolis have yet to access their results.
Maidabam said when the results were released last week, they went to the zonal office of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Kano (JAMB) to complain but were directed to go and repeat the thumb printing for verification.
‘’There is no reason for any verification of thumb- print,’’ he said.
He called on the authorities concerned to do something urgently to address their predicament.
When contacted, the JAMB Zonal Coordinator, Hajiya Karimatu Abubakar, described the incident as unfortunate and attributed it to “some technical hitches”.
Abubakar said as soon as the hitches were rectified, the issue would be resolved. (NAN)
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I have not seen a system that work in Nigeria.
If a candidate write an exams and the result is not out he have the right to ask question
JAMB admintration is corrupt infact it is better to scrap them and let the schools conduct there own exams Period!
This is purely an act/evidence of incompetence, a system that can not-fore see their result intricacies b4 embarking on the unnecessary bureaucracy(biometric verfication) .what Jamb should do at dis point in time is to release the result of those who were not verified, since they have their submitted photo card(as an evidence of attendance), without delay. Enough of this kindergarten administration, ah ah….. Are we moving forward or backward ?
Pls jamb harken to d grudges of ur candidates let our results b release cos u re denying us of our right & our future is as take pls place urself in our shoe & see wat we re passing tru pls release our results
They haven’t seen anything yet,i just returned from portharcourt of recent with the news/rumor that 56 youth boys and girls have sworn to join terror groups if jamb does not do something fast about the present situation and the pegged cutoff mark of 180
Lamentation of 2013 JAMBITE–
A must read article – Read and
broadcast till it gets to Goodluck
Jamb withheld over 80 thousand
results – for what? Many due to
lack of biometric verification –
What about the centers Jamb
never provided with biometric
machine ? Who is at fault ? What
about the centers where the
invigilators asked the candidates
not to be verified because of time
wasting? Whois to be blamed ?
What about the center where
network was the challenge? who
is at fault ? What about those
candidates who did verification,
Where istheir result? What will
happen to the 1.2 million that
won’t get admission? What is
their fate ? What will happen to
the 4 thousand naira each of this
80 thousand candidates paid?
Why has Jamb not made any
official statement on this issue?
What is the Federal Government
doing about this? When will these
results be released or when will
the candidates come for there
biometric verification? Who is
going to give an answer to all of
this questions? When will Nigeria
be a better place? Nigeria is yet to
be developed yet they do things
of a developed country – poor
electricity yet they come up with
biometric machines that needs the
use of electricity, Bad network
communication yet they want to
do biometric verification which
requires network- what about
dose that wrote exams in
villages? Did u build any network
coverage? Jamb should be sued to
court for refusing to verify its
candidates and thereby refusing
to release their result — Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan all this things
happening in your regime
– this is not boko haram issue so
you should tackle it
Why no biometric verication. Hold my jamb result, lets c what happens, enough is enough
Its unfortunate 2 com 2 terms wit d fact dat afta so much mental & financial stress, jambites cannot even get a glimpse of their results. Our country z lyk a yong mango plant yt d men at d top av gone 2 pick large mango fruits 2 forcefully hang it on d tender tendrils.. Our leaders shud nt go 4 flamboyant nd xtravagant tins wen dey know dey wont cope wit its challenges! We mst learn 2 cut our coats according 2 our own. Sth shud b done fast else jambites do sth unthinkable!
Jamb av never bin dissapointed in life like dis bfore,wot is hapenin to Nigeria,look at Ghana of yesterday ar more organised dan us,pls I beg u guys in d name of God,pls do releas our results on tym,I dnt want to write dis again,its ma sixth tym of writin,pls dnt fustrste us cos we ar d future leaders of tomowo.