The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), held on Saturday, June 28. The announcement on Sunday was made 48 hours prior to the Tuesday, July 8, policy meeting of the board.
Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the JAMB spokesperson, said in a statement that 11,161 of the 96,838 candidates who were scheduled for the mop-up exercise had their results made public.
He also advised candidates who were having trouble accessing their results to make sure they followed the guidelines, pointing out that the primary cause of some candidates’ inability to view their scores has been found to be non-compliance with result-checking procedures.
“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 said.
Categories of candidates who wrote the mop-up UTME exam
Recall that the mop-up exam was created for the following categories of candidates: those who missed the main and resit exams, those who had problems with biometric verification, and a group of candidates who spilled over from previous sessions.
The JAMB claims that the exam was designed to accommodate the 5,096 candidates who failed biometric verification during the main exercise.
“Thus, 96,838 candidates are being rescheduled for the 2025 mop-up exercise in 183 centres across the nation, while others are kept on standby,” the board stated last month.
Clampdown on fake admission letters syndicate
JAMB gave thorough updates on ongoing efforts to dismantle a syndicate that produced fake admission letters for various fees, in addition to providing information on the outcome of the mop-up exercise. The examination body reported that it had successfully captured a five-person syndicate involved in the creation and distribution of fake admission letters with the help of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC).
“The five arrested ringleaders confessed to producing the fake admission letters and are currently being prosecuted at the FHC, Abuja in the case between Inspector General of Police vs. Effa Leonard and four (4) others,” Benjamin said.
Abuja, 17,417 candidates were identified as beneficiaries following the five-man syndicate’s confession.
“Between 2024 and May 2025, JAMB cleared 6,903 of these candidates after they rectified minor discrepancies. However, 10,514 candidates were referred to designated police investigation offices. He confirmed that 5,669 of these individuals had outright procured forged admission letters.
Benjamin pointed out that an additional 4,832 people were discovered to have attempted to use the syndicate to get around the Board’s official procedure for undisclosed admissions, which is normally covered by a ministerial waiver from 2017 to 2020.
He added that 13 additional candidates had been flagged for individual acts of commission or omission, 12 of which had occurred since the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) was implemented in 2017.
As disclosed, the flagged candidates are dispersed among several institutions, including Enugu State University of Science and Technology (2) and Bayero University Kano (2). Other institutions include the University of Ilorin, Ben Idahosa University, Obong University, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Osun State Polytechnic Ire, Ekiti State University, Yaba College of Technology, Federal University of Technology Akure, and Ramat Polytechnic Maiduguri.
The board decided to give the 13 candidates a chance to correct the specific irregularities in their records and print new admission letters after the JAMB meeting on July 5, 2025.