The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted nationwide on Saturday, June 28, 2025.
According to a statement issued on Sunday by the Board’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, a total of 96,838 candidates were scheduled for the exercise, but only 11,161 candidates were confirmed to have sat for the examination, and their results have since been released.
Dr. Benjamin explained that candidates who are unable to access their results likely failed to follow the Board’s prescribed result-checking procedure.
“Such candidates did not send ‘UTMERESULT’ as a single word text to 55019 or 66019 using the same phone number used for their UTME registration,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Board also provided an update on ongoing investigations into a criminal syndicate engaged in the production and distribution of fake JAMB admission letters.
The scandal, which first came to light during a joint press briefing by the Nigeria Police Force and JAMB on April 13, 2024, exposed a group of fraudsters allegedly selling forged admission documents to unsuspecting candidates.
With support from the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC), five key members of the syndicate have been arrested and are currently facing trial at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in a case titled Inspector General of Police Vs Effa Leonard & Others.
As part of its internal audit, the Board flagged 17,417 candidates suspected to be involved in the fake admission scheme. Between 2024 and May 2025, 6,903 of these candidates were cleared after being found to have only minor discrepancies in their records and were regularised through due process.
However, the remaining 10,514 candidates were referred to police investigation offices across the country for further examination.
Out of this number, 5,669 candidates were confirmed to have procured forged admission letters, while 4,832 others were found to have attempted to bypass the ministerial waiver process by engaging with the criminal network.
JAMB noted that these individuals belonged to a category of candidates whose admissions between 2017 and 2020 were not properly reported to the Board by their institutions, but were being considered for official condonement.
Furthermore, the Board revealed that an additional 1,532 candidates have had their previously undisclosed admissions regularised by their institutions. These individuals were earlier implicated in the fraud but have since been issued stern warnings after their cases were resolved.
JAMB reiterated its commitment to upholding the integrity of the admission process and warned candidates against patronising unofficial sources or fraudulent agents.
