The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2025 UTME resit examination for candidates at impacted centers.
The Board’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, announced this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Benjamin said thatout of the 336,845 candidates scheduled, 21,082 were absent.
Despite ongoing inquiries, performance analysis remained consistent, with results ranging between 11 per cent in 2013 and 34 per cent in 2016.
The situation, he noted, had revealed numerous alarming practices perpetrated by candidates and certain Proprietors of Schools and Computer-Based Test (CBT) centers.
”After the conduct of the resit examination, a meeting of the Board’s Chief External Examiners (CEEs) was held to consider the results.
”A sub-committee, chaired by Professor Olufemi Peters, was constituted to confirm that the results were in order.
‘:The CEEs reviewed the exercise and directed that an expert in psychometrics, Professor Boniface Nworgu, analyze and endorse the results for subsequent release.
”The meeting resolved that the withheld results of under-aged candidates (except where litigation is involved) who performed below the established standards be released.
”However, the result does not qualify them for admission. Candidates involved in “WhatsApp Runs” and other misdemeanors were found to have been involved in illicit solicitation of assistance.
”The meeting condemned the involvement of some CBT centers in perpetrating serious registration and examination malpractices and resolved that all implicated CBT centers should be blacklisted while complicit owners should be prosecuted.
”The identified individuals who directly registered candidates with modified pictures and biometrics should be apprehended and prosecuted.
”The meeting urged governments at all levels to take appropriate steps in ensuring that operators of tutorial centers were properly regulated, licensed, and constantly monitored to curtail the initiation of candidates into the path of dishonesty, ” he said.
Benjamin emphasised that the unfortunate incident was not targeted at any section of the country, neither was it caused by any particular section of the country.
He stressed that such narratives risk exacerbating existing divisions within society and even the JAMB workforce.
”The meeting noted that more than 93 attendance at the resit examination and offered all absent candidates an opportunity to participate during the normal annual mop-up examination.
‘:This waiver is also extended to candidates who missed the initial main UTME, ” he added.
