A former candidate of the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB), Mr. Emmanuel Jesuyon Dansu, has recalled how the Board sold his ‘seemingly high University Matriculation Examination (UME) results’.

Mr. Dansu made the recollections in a story he told on his Facebook account over the weekend.

The latest development came amidst the controversy that heralded the JAMB result of Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, a graduate of Anglican Girls’ Secondary school, Uruagu Nnewi.

Mmesoma had claimed that she had an aggregate score of 362 but on interrogation it was discovered that results from JAMB indicated candidate’s UTME results to wit: English: 64, Physics: 54, Biology: 74, Chemistry: 57 with a total aggregate score of 249.

At the end, Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma admitted that she manipulated the fake results herself, using her phone and tendered an unreserved written apology to JAMB and her school, Anglican Girls’ Secondary School.

Read the full story below:

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In this episode, however, Dansu recalled that he actually scored 262/400 based on his online printout.

He had considered studying Marine Engineering at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) but the course was not accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and he would be admitted into the Mechanical Engineering department. 

Emmanuel Jesuyon Dansu

To his shock and chagrin, however, he was told by his guardian, a staff in the university’s Exams and Records Office, that his name was not on the UME list sent by JAMB, a discovery she knew made from the office of the HOD of Mechanical Engineering.  

Upon enquiry, he was told that his result was withheld and it was later “gathered from unverified sources that ‘selling’ of seemingly high UTME results” was the in-thing.

He was forced to move on with his life and according to the curriculum vitae shared on his Facebook page, he studied Marine engineering (disambiguation) at Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology “oceanography”, Lagos.

He also later studied MTech Industrial Mathematics at Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), as well as BTech Industrial Mathematics at Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA).

He would later obtain a PhD in Mathematics, Mathematical Modelling at Tohoku University in Japan.

He will later tell his story in a book he released last year called “Keeping Success Pace” available on Amazon.

Reads the story entitled “Our Public Institutions Need to do Better: My Sad JAMB Experience” below:

“I wrote the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) University Matriculation Examination (UME) five times. I know this will sound strange to many people. I wrote my third one around 2002/2003. Interestingly, that was the only UME I really prepared for. 

When the result was released, I had 262/400 based on my online printout. That turned out to be the highest of the two attempts before that time and the two attempts afterwards.  

My first option then was Marine Engineering in UNILAG and I was supposed to be part of the pioneering set. The course was not accredited by the NUC and I learnt we would be admitted into the Mechanical Engineering department. 

Long story short, I was told by my guardian who was a staff in the university’s Exams and Records Office at the time that my name was not on the UME list sent by JAMB. She knew about this from the office of the HOD of Mechanical Engineering.  

At that point, I was studying for a National Diploma in Marine Engineering at the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. As such, it was easy for me to go to the JAMB office in Ikoyi within 24 hours of getting the news from UNILAG. 

It was so shocking when I was told that my result was withheld. As expected, I went to the JAMB office with my online printout but that was no help. 

I later gathered from unverified sources that ‘selling’ of seemingly high UTME results was a thing. 

I don’t mind having an open discussion on this.”

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