The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has scheduled a mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for June 28, 2025.
This exercise, JAMB’s spokesperson Fabian Benjamin said on
Sunday, aims to accommodate 5,096 spill-over candidates and those who
encountered biometric verification issues during the main examination.
Benjamin said a special dispensation has been granted to
91,742 candidates who were absent from either the main or resit examinations,
or both.
In total, 96,838 candidates are set to participate in this
mop-up exercise across 183 centres nationwide.
The board also announced the suspension and delisting of 113
CBT centres across the country due to their involvement in “sharp practices”
and multiple infractions during the previous examinations.
These centres are currently under security investigation, and
those found culpable will face prosecution.
JAMB extended its appreciation to security agencies,
particularly the State Security Service (SSS), the Nigeria Police Force (NPF),
and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), for their work in
ongoing investigations into identity theft and examination malpractice
syndicates.
These efforts, he said, have led to the arrest and
prosecution of numerous culprits, including some JAMB officials, professional
examination takers, and syndicates linked to school proprietors and tutorial
centres.
As a result of these investigations, some examination towns
have been deactivated for the mop-up exercise.
Candidates affected by this change, Benjamin said, will be
assigned to the closest available examination towns.
JAMB said the mop-up examination also presents an
opportunity to apprehend more impersonators, especially current undergraduate
students.
The board stated that institutions of apprehended
undergraduates are being notified of their students’ misconduct, which violates
their matriculation oaths, with a view to expelling them in addition to
prosecution under the Examination Malpractice Act of 1999.
Special squads of invigilators and security personnel are to
be deployed to continue the crackdown on examination malpractices.
Benjamin said candidates slated for the mop-up examination
are advised to arrive at their centres one to one and a half hours before the
scheduled 8:00 am start time.
Eligible candidates are to commence printing their
examination notification slips from June 23, 2025.
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