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An Abuja based lawyer, Chukwuma Nwachukwu, has invoked the Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, against the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, following the examination body’s decision to withhold information on the top scorers in the recently released results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
ln a letter the legal practitioner forwarded to JAMB, he requested to be furnished with names and scores of the 10 best candidates in the 2024 UTME, within seven days, in line with provisions of the FOI Act.
The applicant said that it was wrong for JAMB to withhold the requested information when it gave a breakdown of the performance of candidates that partook in the examination on April 29.
Consequently, he specifically asked the Registrar General of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, to supply him with the names and scores of the 10 best students in the examination.
