Nigeria, May 28 -- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disowned a 'spoofed' version of its shortcode circulating among UTME candidates, asking them to reprint their slips for a resit examination.

In a statement by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB said there are no scheduled examinations, and candidates who have successfully completed the resit examination and received their results need not be concerned.

"Such messages are fraudulent and intended to sow confusion," the statement said.

JAMB said the only examinations it plans to conduct are yet to be scheduled.

The board listed the examinations it planned as the foreign examination held in nine countries across Europe, the Middle East, and certain African nat...