Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Thursday, in Abuja, announced that
three candidates scored 367 during the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, thereby emerging as the highest scorers for the examination.
JAMB disclosed this at the ongoing 2024 policy meeting in Abuja.
The top UTME scorers are Olowu Joseph from Ondo State, Alayande David from Oyo State, and Orukpe Joel from Edo State.
Last year, Umeh Nkechinyere emerged as the highest scorer with a 360 aggregate score.
JAMB had earlier said it would not announce the 2024 highest scorer to avoid a repeat of the “Mmesoma matter.
Recall that a 19-year-old student, Ejikeme Mmesoma, had caused a hoopla across the country following her claim of scoring 362 as against her actual score of 249 in the 2023 UTME JAMB portal.
“It is common knowledge that the Board has, at various fora, restated its unwillingness to publish the names of its best-performing candidates, as it considers its UTME as only a ranking examination on account of the other parameters that would constitute what would later be considered the minimum admissible score for candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions,” Oloyede said.
