The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released 531 out of 64,000 withheld results of the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Spokesperson of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, revealed this in a statement on Tuesday.

According to Benjamin, the Board is also looking at cases of unverified candidates and will soon come up with a position.

“As promised, the Board is proceeding with the screening of over 64,000 withheld results. It has, however, released additional 531 results taking the total number of results released to 1,842,897,” Benjamin said.

“In the course of the exercise, other cases of examination misconduct were also established to make a tally of 92 from the 81 initially discovered.”

The Board dismissed the trending story that its processes have been compromised, stressing that it will continue to “protect the integrity of its systems against such malicious actors, who are hell-bent on creating confusion where none existed.

“Consequently, the Board is primed to adding more features like registration number to the existing UTME Result checking process going forward to make it extra difficult for anybody to edit.

“Candidates are, therefore, urged to securely keep their details secure for if they are found associating with any of these mischievous elements, they would be treated as collaborators.

“For now, the method of checking the 2024 UTME remains sending UTMERESULT to 55019 or 66019 and not through any other process. The result, at the moment, is not on the Board’s website.”