The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has blamed parents for 80% of the infractions recorded during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This was disclosed by Jake Epelle, Chairman of JAMB’s Special Committee on Examination Infractions, during an appearance on Channels TV’s Politics Today. He said, “Eighty per cent of these infractions are…
The JAMB Special Committee on Examination Infractions (SCEI) has exposed massive tech-driven malpractices in the 2025 UTME, including 4,251 cases of fingerprint manipulation (“finger blending”) and 190+ instances of AI-assisted impersonation via image morphing. Committee chair Jake Epelle reported these findings to JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, citing widespread complicity involving parents, tutorial centres, schools,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has launched a probe into 6,458 candidates suspected of engaging in technology-driven exam malpractice during the 2025 UTME. At the inauguration of a 23-member Special Committee on Examination Infraction in Abuja, JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede described the rise in sophisticated cheating methods — including biometric fraud, image…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results for candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) resit. According to a statement from JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, out of the 336,845 candidates scheduled for the exam, 21,082 were absent. This figure accounts for candidates after excluding affected centres and…
Twenty suspects have been arrested for hacking the 2025 computer-based test examinations conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Police Force have arrested several suspects in Abuja, believed to be members of a cybercrime syndicate targeting examination bodies. The syndicate, reportedly comprising…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has admitted that there were errors that affected the performance of candidates during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination held across different centres in the country. The Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, who disclosed this during a media briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, also broke down in tears while admitting to…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has launched an immediate review of the 2025 UTME following numerous complaints of technical issues, incomplete questions, and unusually low scores. In a statement by its Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB acknowledged an “unusual volume of complaints” since the UTME results were released last Friday. The Board…
Data from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that Anambra and Lagos States top the list of 80 suspects currently being interrogated by the police in connection with malpractice during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Speaking at a press briefing held at JAMB headquarters in Abuja on Friday, the Registrar,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this on Friday during a press briefing in Abuja, saying over 1.9 million candidates sat for the examination across the country. He revealed that it is withholding the results of…
JAMB: Only 1.16% of Underage UTME Candidates Show Exceptional Academic Ability Out of the 40,247 underage candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), only 467 — representing 1.16% — qualified for the “exceptional ability” category, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). This data is drawn from a total…
