The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced updated monitoring measures, age eligibility requirements, and registration timelines ahead of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) exercises.
The announcement was made on Saturday in Lagos during a meeting with Commissioners for Education, where JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, outlined key dates and compliance measures for candidates and Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres.
Prof. Oloyede said UTME registration would run from 26 January to 28 February 2025 at all approved CBT centres nationwide. He clarified that the sale of UTME application documents (ePIN) would begin before the registration period.
“The sale of UTME application document, which is the ePIN, will start earlier than the commencement of actual registration, which is January 19 to February 26. Actual UTME registration period is between January 26 to February 28 at all approved CBT Centres,” he said.
The Registrar also gave details on mock examinations and Direct Entry applications. “The close of mock selection is February 16, while the sale of DE application documents and e-PIN vending will commence on March 2, and close by April 25,” he added.
Oloyede warned that all registration centres would be monitored live from JAMB headquarters, stressing that centres whose activities cannot be viewed would neither be paid nor have their registrations validated.
“Any centre whose registration activities cannot be viewed from the headquarters will not be paid, while such registration may be invalidated,” he said.
He further noted that 924 centres had been screened and provisionally listed, but would undergo a final test before full accreditation.
“They will go through the final test before final accreditation,” Oloyede said.
The Registrar stressed that candidates are not required to pay any service charge to CBT centres. “Only fees approved by the board are payable,” he said.
On concerns about being posted to distant examination locations, Oloyede clarified that “The choice of a group of towns implies that candidates can be posted to any of the towns in the chosen group.”
Oloyede reminded candidates to declare any prior registrations or admissions. “Failure to disclose such prior admission is an offence which will be sanctioned,” he said, emphasising that it is a criminal offence to run more than one undergraduate programme simultaneously.
Regarding age, he said candidates must be at least 16 years old by 30 September 2026 to be eligible for admission. He added that underage candidates would undergo rigorous assessment.
“Underage candidates who will be less than 16 years old by 30th September, 2026, will undergo an intensive evaluation to determine their eligibility for a waiver, and such candidates must have scored not less than 80 per cent in each of UTME/A’LEVEL, PUTME, SSCE and in the exceptional candidate assessment,” he said.
Prof. Oloyede also disclosed that, unlike in previous years, UTME results for underage candidates would be released only after the full evaluation process is completed to ensure proper assessment.
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