By John Moses
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it will conduct a nationwide mop-up examination for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on 28 June.
In a statement released on Sunday by the board’s Public Communications Adviser, Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB said the exercise would accommodate over 96,000 candidates, including those who experienced biometric failures and others granted special exemptions from previous sittings.
Among those eligible are 5,096 spill-over candidates and 91,742 candidates who missed either or both the original exam and its rescheduled sessions.
The mop-up will take place in 183 designated centres across Nigeria. Candidates are advised to begin printing their examination notification slips from Monday, and those scheduled for the 8:00 a.m. session are expected to arrive at least one hour before the exam commences.
The board also revealed that several Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres implicated in malpractice during earlier exam phases have been either suspended or permanently delisted, with 113 centres affected so far.
JAMB thanked Nigeria’s security services, including the Department of State Services (DSS), the police, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for their continued efforts in dismantling examination fraud rings.
Benjamin confirmed that several suspects—including professional exam imposters, syndicates, and even JAMB officials—are currently facing prosecution.
Some towns implicated in fraud are now barred from hosting further exams. Candidates originally assigned to these deactivated areas will be relocated to nearby towns, JAMB stated, appealing for their understanding.
