There has been a lot of posts on this website particularly as well as others concerning Jamb candidates in the just concluded UTME who are finding it hard to check for their results online. While there are some who have checked theirs earlier, many others are still left out due to the difficulties they face in getting the site to work at internet cafes. It is not normal for a student to be waiting on the Jamb server to load the page for more than 3 hours and yet there's no positive feedback. There are also numerous other problems many are facing part of which includes their inability to remember their registration number. This perceived lack of clear guidelines from Jamb is giving the candidates a lot of problems. There is also to issue of Post UTME exams in schools which Jamb has not clearly ruled out. Many students want to know if the schools they applied for will still conduct Post UTME exams and if so why?
Here is a more detailed report on the issue facing students from www.234next.com:
Many candidates who sat for the maiden Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) are yet to see their results days after its stated release by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Friday, 23 April, 2010.The results can only be checked online at www.jambonline.org, but many candidates have been having difficulty logging on to the site since its release, an experience they described as similar to that for the online application for the examination.
Announcing the results in Abuja, Dibu Ojerinde, Registrar of JAMB, said over 68 per cent of the 1,276,795 candidates that sat for the UTME passed; 96.23% of the results have so far been released. Over 1.3 million candidates had applied for the examination around the world.
Still waiting
"It's not good at all that I can't see my result since it was released on Friday; their site is just not going. After putting my data and clicking 'done', nothing happens. It's their service that's bad, because I've been trying other cafes too, but it's the same thing," said Sodiq Jimoh, a candidate who is also a computer operator at Sky touch Cyber cafe, along Isheri Road in Lagos.
Mr. Jimoh also pointed out that his inability to access the site in spite of his limitless access to the internet during the day, by virtue of his job, means the "situation must be really bad."
"I feel very bad about it, me that I'm even working at a cafe from morning till 8pm can't even access the result; it is very painful, and must be for others (other candidates) too," Mr. Jimoh added.
Cyber cafes across Lagos, which are the major points of call for many of the candidates requiring internet access for the checking of results, have been experiencing the similar difficulties.
At Pop-com Cyber cafe, Ogba, where only one out of about 30 candidates has so far succeeded in checking the result, the system administration, Kazeem Adebayo, blamed JAMB for the continued delay experienced by candidates in checking their results.
"The problem is with JAMB site, because we've been visiting other sites, and no problem; it's their site that is not okay. Anything Nigerian is not okay, at least hundreds of thousands of Nigerians visit facebook (an online social networking site) at anytime, and no problem or congestion," said Mr. Adebayo.
