The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially released the results of its mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted on Saturday, June 28. According to a statement by JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, 11,161 results have been released out of the 96,838 candidates scheduled to sit for the mop-up exercise.
The official emblem of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), representing its commitment to service and integrity in Nigeria’s tertiary education admissions process.
JAMB emphasized that candidates unable to access their results likely failed to comply with the directive to send “UTMERESULT” as a single word to 55019 or 66019 using the phone number used during UTME registration.
In a related development, JAMB provided an update on its ongoing investigation into a fake admission letter syndicate, which was uncovered in 2024. The syndicate, JAMB revealed, was involved in producing counterfeit JAMB admission letters for unsuspecting candidates in exchange for money.
Following a joint operation between JAMB and the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC), five key members of the syndicate were arrested and are currently being prosecuted at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in the case: Inspector General of Police vs. Effa Leonard and Four Others. Their confession led to 17,417 candidates being flagged as beneficiaries of the fraudulent operation.
The board further disclosed that from 2024 to May 2025, it cleared 6,903 of those flagged candidates after verifying that their discrepancies were minor. The remaining 10,514 cases were referred to designated police units for further investigation.
Of these, it confirmed that 5,669 candidates had outrightly obtained forged admission letters, while another 4,832 attempted to bypass the proper condonement process using the fraudulent syndicate. Thirteen additional candidates were flagged due to specific acts of omission or commission related to their admissions, with most having registered in 2017 when JAMB’s CAPS platform was introduced.
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Institutions involved in these 13 cases include Bayero University Kano (BUK), Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Ramat Polytechnic Maiduguri, Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Ekiti State University (EKSU), Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Olabisi Onabanjo University, Osun State Polytechnic Ire, Ben Idahosa University, Obong University, and the University of Ilorin.
JAMB noted that at its July 5, 2025 meeting, it directed the 13 flagged candidates to correct the anomalies in their records and proceed to reprint their admission letters, classifying them among the earlier-condoned group.
Additionally, it announced that 1,532 candidates—who claimed they unknowingly benefitted from the fake letter syndicate—have also been condoned as their respective institutions eventually processed their admissions through proper channels.
However, JAMB maintained that 3,300 candidates remain under investigation because their institutions have yet to validate their admissions. The board reiterated its commitment to due process and warned that any candidate found to have engaged in examination or admission fraud would face penalties in line with the Examination Malpractices Act, including prosecution.
The board reaffirmed its zero-tolerance stance on admission and examination fraud, stressing the need for transparency and integrity in its processes.
