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The 19th Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria has approved 160 and above as the national minimum benchmark for admission for the year 2019 into public universities.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has released 15,490 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results of candidates who were suspected of being involved in one examination infraction or another.

The cut-off marks for the 2019/2020 admission will tomorrow be fixed by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board at a policy meeting with stakeholders at Gbongan, Osun State.

Franklin, who made University of Lagos his first choice, scored 347 and may not be admitted because of his age.

The registrar said the details of the results will be announced by 10 a.m. on Saturday.

Heads are set to roll across the country as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has launched a probe into the credentials of applicants dating back to 2009.

JAMB said some desperate parents were in the habit of paying up to 10 persons to sit for the examination for just one child of theirs.

No fewer than 23 inmates of the Ikoyi Prisons School on Wednesday participated in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.