Chidimma Uchegbu, Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has approved Saturday, 28th June for the conduct of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), mop-up examination for 96,838 candidates in 183 centres nationwide.
Public Communication Advisor of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said in a statement on Sunday that the exercise will accommodate the 5,096 spill-over candidates and those who failed biometric verification during the main exercise.
Benjamin added that due to the special dispensation granted to absentee candidates of the main and resit examinations, 91,742 candidates who were absent in both or either of the main and resit examinations would also be given this opportunity which is only for 2025 UTME.
“Collectively 96,838 candidates are being rescheduled for the 2025 mop up exercise in 183 centres across the nation while others are kept on standby,” he said.
On sanctions meted on some CBT centers, he said “in addition to centres being delisted for technical deficiencies during the mock, UTME and resit examinations, a large number of CBT centres implicated for sharp practices in the on-going security investigation are being suspended and those found culpable would be delisted and reported for prosecution.
“Consequently, 113 CBT centres have been delisted or suspended from across the country. Some other implicated in multiple infractions in the main or resit examinations exercise.”
JAMB also appreciated security agencies particularly the State Security Service, SSS, the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDS, for their extra -ordinary devotion, passion and tenacity in the on-going nation-wide special investigation of identity theft and examination malpractices syndicates which led to the arrest and prosecution of tens of culprits, including few JAMB officials, professional examination takers and syndicates of some school proprietors and tutorial centres.
“As a result of the investigation, a number of examination towns are no longer eligible to be used for the mop up examinations. Few candidates who fall into the deactivated examination towns would be assigned to examination towns closest to the delisted towns. We seek the understanding of such candidates,” he said.
According to him, the scheduled mop-up examination provides the opportunity to further apprehend more impersonators particularly current undergraduate students who impersonate UTME candidates.
“Institutions of apprehended undergraduates are already being notified of the gross misconduct of their students in order to invoke the violation of the matriculation oath already taken by the students to flush them out of the various tertiary institutions, in addition to their prosecution under the examination malpractice Act, 1999 which makes provisions for imprisonment even of the under-aged and their indulgent parents.
“Special squads of invigilators/security personnel are being deployed in the continuation of the current war already declared by the Hon. Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Tunji Alausa, CON on examination malpractices and their perpetrators both high and low,” he stated.
On the time of the scheduled exam, he said the first session for the examination day starts, as usual, at 8:00am.
“Candidates for the 8:00am session are therefore advised in their own interest to arrive one or one and half hour before the actual commencement of the examination at 8:00am,” he said.
Benjamin advised eligible and genuine candidates to print their examination notification slips from Monday, 23rd June 2025 in preparation for the mop up examination scheduled for Saturday, 28th June, 2025.
