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2024 UTME: JAMB unveils best results, three candidates score 367

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has unveiled the candidates with the best results in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Speaking at the 2024 Policy Meeting on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in Abuja on Thursday, July 18, 2024, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, listed three candidates with the best results of 367 scores as Oluwasijibomi Olowu, from Ondo State, David Alayande from Oyo State and Ehijele Orukpe from Edo State.

Others are Jewel Emmanuel from Akwa Ibom scored 366, Joshua Essiet from Akwa Ibom scored 365 and Valerie Ezenwoko from Abia State scored 365, among others.

2024 UTME: JAMB pegs admission cut-off marks at 140, 100

The Pan-Atlantic University, Ibeju-Lekki, Covenant University, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and the University of Lagos has 200 as the minimum admissible scores in the CAPS.

Also, Afe Babalola University, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigerian Police Academy, Wudil, Lagos said University of Science and Technology, Ikorodu has 180 as minimum admissible scores in the CAPS.

Meanwhile, JAMB has pegged admissions cut-off marks for universities, polytechnics and Colleges of Education (COE) at 140, 100 and 100 respectively.

Oloyede said that no university, polytechnics and colleges of education must admit candidates less than minimum cut-off requirements.

He, therefore, said that institutions were also mandated to adhere strictly to their various admission requirement stipulated in the Central Admissions Processing Systems (CAPS) institutions.

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