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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has fixed Saturday, June 28, 2025 for the conduct of a mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, for 96,838 candidates.
Spokesman for JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, made this disclosure in a statement, on Sunday.
Benjamin explained that the affected candidates could start printing their examination notification slips beginning from Monday, June 23.
“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.
“This examination will accommodate the 5,096 spill-over candidates and those who failed biometric verification during the main exercise.
“Also, 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. Thus 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.
The Board further announced that 113 Computer-Based Test, CBT, centres across the country have been suspended or delisted due to various infractions uncovered during the conduct of the UTME.
The tertiary institution examination body stressed that some of the affected centres were found to have committed technical infractions during the mock and main examinations, while others were implicated in ongoing security investigations into examination malpractice.
“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,” it said.
The Board appreciated the security agencies, especially 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.
According to the Board, the investigation 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.
