The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of its mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted on Saturday, June 28, 2025.
In a statement issued Sunday, July 6, JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said results for 11,161 candidates have been released out of the 96,838 scheduled to write the exam.
“Candidates who are not able to access their results have been found not to have fully complied with the instruction to send ‘UTMERESULT’ (as one word text) to 55019/66019 from the same phone number (SIM) with which they registered for the UTME,” the statement noted.
Beyond the mop-up results, JAMB also gave fresh updates on the crackdown against a syndicate accused of producing fake admission letters for candidates at a fee.
According to the commission, “a joint press conference between the PPRO of the Nigeria Police Force and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board was convened on April 13, 2024.
“It was the outcome of the complaint of JAMB that a syndicate had engaged in the fabrication of JAMB Admission Letters for interested candidates in exchange for a fee, following which a comprehensive investigation was launched.”
With help from the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC), five key members of the group were arrested and are currently facing prosecution at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
“The five arrested ring-leaders confessed to producing the fake admission letters and are currently being prosecuted at the Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, in the case between Inspector General of Police Vs Effa Leonard and four Others.
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“Following the confession from the syndicate, a total of 17,417 candidates were flagged as beneficiaries,” the commission said.
From this figure, 6,903 candidates have since been cleared after correcting discrepancies. However, the remaining 10,514 are still under scrutiny.
JAMB explained, “Among the 10,514 candidates, 5,669 were confirmed to have procured forged letters outright, while 4,832 candidates, whose admission were then undisclosed to JAMB and who were being processed for condonement by their confessing institutions under a (2017-2020) ministerial waiver, impatiently engaged the syndicate to side-step the process.”
Thirteen others were flagged due to errors or actions linked to them, with their cases traced to institutions such as Bayero University Kano, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, FUTA, EKSU, YABATECH, and the University of Ilorin, among others.
JAMB said its management met on July 5, 2025, and decided that the 13 affected candidates must “rectify their specific anomalies and proceed to print their new letters of admission as they belong to the batch of 6,903 earlier condoned.”
Also addressed were 1,532 candidates who denied involvement in the scam, though their institutions eventually validated their admissions. These students were issued a warning and conditionally condoned.
The board confirmed that 3,300 candidates remain under investigation, as their schools have yet to process their admissions properly.
“The board’s screening processes continue and any candidate found to have employed or solicited assistance from examination and certificate fraudsters or deviated from laid down procedures for registration, examination or admission would continue to face the consequences which include prosecution under the Examination Malpractices Act which prescribes appropriate punishment even for the under-aged and their culpable mentors, guardians or parents,” JAMB warned.