Nigeria, April 1 -- Protesting workers of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Ikorodu, have denied a report by the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Isiaq Oloyede, that two of his men were attacked in Lagos on Monday during the conduct of the mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

They described it as a "blatant lie and a figment of the imagination of whoever is behind such report."

Addressing journalists in Abuja earlier on Monday, Mr Oloyede condemned the attack on his men.

He also said efforts were on to investigate what transpired.

"The very first sad thing that we noticed was that two of our staff were almost murdered in Lagos. There was an attempt on their lives at the Lagos ...