The results of candidates who participated in the supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, has been released by JAMB.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.

The supplementary examination which took place between June 21st and June 22nd, had 28,835 candidates, who were not able to biometrically verified during the main 2024 UTME.

The spokesperson further directed candidates on how to check their results.

“To check their supplementary UTME results, candidates are to send UTMERESULT to either 55019 or 66019 through the same phone number they had used to generate their profile codes at the start of registration,” he stated.

According to Benjamin, “Similarly, the other category of candidates were those suspected to have been involved in examination malpractices during the main UTME but who were given a second chance to sit the examination.

The exercise, which recorded a huge success nationwide, was marked by heightened security measures put in place by the Board to preclude any instance of examination infractions. As such, some nefarious characters, who had attempted to impersonate bona fide candidates were apprehended and handed over to law enforcement agencies for further investigation and prosecution.

The Board would continue to ensure that no candidate benefits from any acts of infractions through the deployment of state-of-the-art technology before, during and after its examinations.

“Candidates are, therefore, urged, in their own interest, to refrain from engaging in any form of irregularity during their examinations. They are also enjoined to desist from soliciting score upgrades from fraudsters or engage in the mutilation of their result sheets while trying to generate fake result sheets with higher scores,” he said.