The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is planning to conduct a mop-up examination for candidates who missed the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Professor Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB Registrar disclosed this in Abuja at a meeting with key stakeholders to address challenges encountered during the exercise, explaining that this would afford the over 5% of candidates who were unable to sit for the examination for whatever reason the opportunity to do so. He emphasized...

…Parents, Ohanaeze Youth kick as Board orders resit for over 200,000 candidates Some candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have called for the total cancellation of the results following the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) admission of technical errors that affected the performance of over 379,000 candidates. The aggrieved candidates, speaking with Daily Trust on Wednesday, expressed their frustration, disappointment and heartbreak after JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, publicly...

…Thousands to Resit Exam Following System Failures The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, has addressed the nation amid mounting complaints over the recently released results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Speaking during a press conference held at the Board’s headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, on Wednesday, 14th May 2025, Professor Oloyede acknowledged that a technical error affected the scores of thousands of candidates, particularly in...