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JAMB cancels results, Reschedule Late Applicants

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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board chairman, Prof Oloyede Is-haq announced at a news conference at the end of an extensive meeting held with external examiners and other stakeholders that the board after due investigations has cancelled the results of about 59,698 candidates who sat for the examination on cases of examination malpractices and other ofences. he further noted that the board has also blacklisted 48 computer based-test (CBT) centres over their involvement extortion and organized examination malpractices during the 2017 examination. in his words, the delisting of 48 centres from participating in the board's examination in future is as a result of serious technical deficiencies, extortion, organized examination malpractices and other damaging infractions. while another 24 centres were suspended for the 2018 examination. Meanwhile, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has scheduled the supplementary examination for late registrants for July

Why the Dirge?

Prelude:”I saw a post of yours’ on the group’s platform, it captivated me--------your composition is matured”. -----------------------------The Culture-------------------- The prelude statement might have sound simple and small to most(including you reading this, perhaps) but it was the starting point for me, or better said, it was the turning point, every goal chaser and self believers must have had that moment in their life when the summing up of event(s) or circumstance(s) to make it really in their own chosen way was showcased, if there was anything like that for me, it is most definitely that message! It was like a ray of hope in a cloudy sky, a beam of light in a confusing fog, like a compass, in a strange wood. Naturally, the feeling was elation and inner pleasure, to know that you are actually making sense somehow, somewhere. The fact the sender of this message was a total stranger at that time was even more wonderful, for it took my sense of r