The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of its mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held on Saturday, June 28.
In a statement in Abuja by its Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB confirmed that the results of 11,161 candidates who sat for the mop-up exam have been released out of the 96,838 who were scheduled to participate.
The statement said, “Candidates who are not able to access their results have been found not to have fully complied with the instruction to send ‘UTMERESULT’ (as one word text) to 55019/66019 from the same phone number (SIM) with which they registered for the UTME.”
JAMB also provided an update on the ongoing investigation into a fake admission letter syndicate, whose masterminds were arrested in 2024.
“You will recall that a joint press conference between the PPRO of the Nigeria Police Force and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board was convened on April 13, 2024. It was the outcome of the complaint of JAMB that a syndicate had engaged in the fabrication of JAMB Admission Letters for interested candidates in exchange for a fee, following which a comprehensive investigation was launched.
“With the assistance of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC), the police successfully apprehended the five ring-leaders behind the scam.
“The five arrested ring-leaders confessed to producing the fake admission letters and are currently being prosecuted at the Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, in the case between Inspector General of Police Vs Effa Leonard and four Others. Following the confession from the syndicate, a total of 17,417 candidates were flagged as beneficiaries,” the statement said.
The board announced that between 2024 and May 2025, it had cleared 6,903 of those flagged candidates after they rectified minor discrepancies.
It added that the remaining 10,514 candidates were referred to designated police investigation offices.
