Meet Umeh Nkechinyere The Top Scorer in JAMB From Anambra state

Umeh Nkechinyere

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board on the 24th of June 2023 declared 16-year-old Umeh Nkechinyere , 16, as the top scorer with an aggregate score of 360.

Miss Umeh was celebrated by JAMB for being the top scorer by the board and asked Mmesoma Ejikeme to stop parading herself as the top scorer.

The board noted that Ejikeme manually inflated her UTME result from 249 to 362 and used her manually inflated score to attract a N3 million scholarship from Innoson Motors, which was set to be awarded by the Anambra State government before she was exposed.

“The most pathetic of them all is the case of Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, who claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME and was awarded a N3m scholarship by Chief (Dr.) Innocent Chukwuma.

“She was even set to be honoured by the Anambra State Government when one of its top officials put a call through to JAMB to confirm her claim only for the Board to reveal that Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had actually scored 249 and not 362 she claimed.

“She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain a scholarship and other recognitions,” a statement by JAMB said.

Ejikeme's result has since been withdrawn. And the examination body has barred  her from JAMB for three years.