The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the mop-up examination held on Saturday, June 28, 2025.
JAMB Spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin announced this in a statement on Sunday.
Benjamin disclosed that, “out of the 96,838 candidates scheduled for the mop-up exercise, the result of 11,161 who were present have been released. Candidates who are not able to access their result have been found not to have fully complied with the instruction to send “UTMERESULT”(as one word text) to 55019/66019 from the same phone number (SIM) with which they registered for the UTME”.
In another development, the Board announced that with the assistance of the Nigerian Police, a syndicate had engaged in the fabrication of JAMB-Admission Letters for interested candidates in exchange for a fee, had been arrested and were being prosecuted at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
“With the assistance of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC), the police successfully apprehended the 5 ring-leaders behind the scam.
“The five arrested ring-leaders, confessed to producing the fake admission letters and are currently being prosecuted at the FHC, Abuja in the case between Inspector General of Police Vs Effa Leonard and four (4) others”, the Board said.
In addition, “following the confession from the syndicate, a total of 17,417 candidates were flagged as beneficiaries. Between 2024 and May, 2025 when the Board submitted an update to the Federal Ministry of Education, a total of 6,903 candidates who were asked to rectify their minor discrepancies were cleared leaving behind 10,514 who had been referred to their nearest designated police investigation offices.
“Among the 10,514 candidates, 5,669 were confirmed to have outrightly procured forged letters while 4,832 candidates whose admission were then undisclosed to JAMB and who were being processed for condonement by their confessing institutions under a (2017-2020) ministerial waiver, impatiently engaged the syndicate to side-step the process.
“13 others were found to have been flagged due to one act of omission/commission or the other on the part of the candidates. 12 of the 13 candidates registered in 2017 when CAPS was established”.
The JAMB Spokesperson also disclosed that, of the thirteen candidates, two each were from both Bayero University Kano (BUK) and Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) while one each was from Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (EKSUB), Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Osun State Polytechnic, Ire, Ben Idahosa University, Benin City, Obong University, Obong Ntak and University of Ilorin.
The statement read in part: “In continuation of the screening process, the management of the Board at its meeting on the 5th July, 2025 decided that the 13 candidates flagged through one act of commission/omission or the other on the candidates part, should be requested to rectify their specific anomalies and proceed to print their new letters of admission as they belong to the batch of 6,903 earlier condoned.
“In addition, a total of 1,532 candidates, whose essential defence (though difficult to believe) was that they were not party to the commissioning of the syndicate which help facilitated their admission letters, are hereby warned and condoned because their institutions had eventually processed their condonement of initially undisclosed admission-a procedure the candidates initially attempted to side-step.
“Thus, 3,300 candidates who are not processed for illegitimate or undisclosed admission by their claimed institutions remain under investigation.
“The Board’s screening processes continue and any candidate found to have employed or solicited assistance from examination and certificate fraudsters or deviated from laid down procedures for registration, examination or admission would continue to face the consequences which include prosecution under the Examination Malpractices Act which prescribes appropriate punishment even for the under-aged and their culpable mentors, guardians or parents”.
