This was revealed on Thursday at the ongoing 2024 policy meeting by the JAMB Board in Abuja.
The candidates are Olowu Joseph from Ondo State, Alayande David from Oyo State, and Orukpe Joel from Edo State.
In 2023, Umeh Nkechinyere emerged as the highest scorer with a 360 aggregate score.
JAMB had earlier stated that it would not announce the 2024 highest scorer to avoid a repeat of the “Mmesoma matter.
It is important to know that Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 19-year-old student, claimed to score 362 as against her actual score of 249 in the 2023 UTME JAMB portal.
Speaking on the essence of disclosing the names of top scorers in UTME, JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede said, “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.”
