The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of results for candidates who sat the rescheduled 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

This was disclosed in a statement by the Board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin.

According to JAMB, the rescheduled examination was conducted for over 300,000 candidates whose initial results were affected by a technical glitch that disrupted tests in 157 centres across Lagos State and the South-East region.

JAMB further stated that candidates who missed either the main UTME or the rescheduled sessions, amounting to a total of 92,783, will be given another opportunity to write the examination.

The examination body expressed regret over the disruptions caused by the technical failure, while also revealing that a post-exam review uncovered several irregularities involving candidates, school proprietors, and some Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres.

JAMB said it discovered alarming levels of malpractice, including manipulation of candidate details and biometric data during registration.

As a result, it has resolved to blacklist all implicated CBT centres and prosecute their owners, along with individuals found to have registered candidates using altered photographs and biometrics.

The released results underwent a thorough review led by Prof. Boniface Nworgu, an expert in educational measurement and evaluation.

His findings were corroborated by a committee of Chief External Examiners chaired by Prof. Olufemi Peters, Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria.

JAMB also released a detailed breakdown of the 2025 UTME performance:

17,025 candidates (0.88%) scored above 300

117,373 candidates (6.08%) scored above 250

565,988 candidates (29.3%) scored above 200

Over 1.3 million candidates (70.7%) scored below 200

The Board noted that this year’s performance falls within the 12-year historical range of UTME outcomes, with success rates fluctuating between 11 per cent (2013) and 34 per cent (2016).