By Ikugbadi Oluwasegun
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held on Saturday, June 28, 2025. In a statement by Fabian Benjamin, the Board disclosed that out of 96,838 candidates scheduled for the mop-up exercise, results for 11,161 candidates who sat for the examination have been released.
It added that Candidates who are unable to access their results were found to have failed to follow the instruction to send “UTMERESULT” (as a single word text) to 55019 or 66019 using the same phone number they used for UTME registration. JAMB also provided updates on the investigation into a fake admission letter syndicate exposed in April 2024 during a joint press briefing with the Nigeria Police Force adding that, they have been producing counterfeit JAMB admission letters for candidates in exchange for fees.
With the assistance of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC), the Examination body said five ringleaders were apprehended and have since confessed. They are currently being prosecuted at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in the case Inspector General of Police vs Effa Leonard and Four Others.Following these confessions, Jamb disclosed that, 17,417 candidates were flagged as beneficiaries of the scam.
The Board declared that between 2024 and May 2025, 6,903 candidates rectified their minor discrepancies and were cleared, 10,514 others were referred to police investigation offices. Among them, 5,669 were confirmed to have procured forged letters, while 4,832 whose admissions were initially undisclosed to JAMB and who were undergoing condonement under a 2017–2020 ministerial waiver engaged the syndicate in an attempt to bypass due process.
An additional 13 candidates were flagged due to various acts of omission or commission. Twelve of these registered in 2017, when the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) was introduced.At a management meeting held on July 5, 2025, JAMB resolved that these 13 candidates should rectify their anomalies and print new admission letters, as they belong to the 6,903 already condoned.
Additionally, 1,532 candidates, who claimed they were unaware of the syndicate’s involvement in producing their fake letters, have been warned and condoned. Their respective institutions have since processed their condonement of initially undisclosed admissions,a process the candidates had previously attempted to circumvent. Meanwhile, 3,300 candidates whose admissions remain illegitimate or unprocessed by their claimed institutions are still under investigation.
