The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given reasons why some candidates who sat for its recently conducted mop-up examination will not be able to get their results.
This followed the release of results of the examination in question, which was held on Saturday, June 28, 2025.
Out of the 96,838 candidates scheduled for the mop-up exercise, the results of 11,161 who were present for the mop-up exercise was released.
In a statement at the weekend, signed by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB said that “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.”
Out of the 96,838 candidates scheduled for the mop-up examination exercise, JAMB said, the results of 11,161 who were present for the mop-up exercise was released.
It could be recalled that a joint press conference between the PPRO of the Nigeria Police Force and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board was convened on 13th April 2024. It was the outcome of the complaint of JAMB that a syndicate had engaged in the fabrication of JAMB-Admission Letters for interested candidates in exchange for a fee, following which a comprehensive investigation was launched.
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 the Inspector General of Police Vs Effa Leonard and four (4) others.
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 admissions 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. Of the thirteen candidates, two each are from both Bayero University Kano (BUK) and Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), while one each is from Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri; Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA); Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti; 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.
In continuation of the screening process, the management of the JAMB at its meeting on the July 5, 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,” said the Board in a statement seen by The Africanscholar.
It added further that 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.”
