Jamb releases results of mop-up exams for 11,161 candidates, cracks down on fake admission letters

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of its mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted on Saturday, June 28, 2025. The announcement on Sunday comes forty-eight hours before the board’s policy meeting slated for Tuesday, July 8, 2025.

A statement by the JAMB Spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, revealed that out of the 96,838 candidates scheduled for the mop-up exercise, the results of 11,161 who were present have been released.

In addition, he urged candidates who were unable to access their results to ensure they followed the prescribed procedure, noting that non-compliance with result-checking procedures has been identified as the main reason some candidates cannot access their scores.

“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,” the statement said.

Also Read: How to check your 2025 JAMB/UTME results online or using SMS.

Recall that the mop-up exam was designed for three key groups of candidates: those who were absent from both the main and resit UTME, those who experienced biometric verification issues, and a set of spill-over candidates from earlier sessions.

According to the JAMB, the examination was meant to accommodate the 5,096 spill-over candidates and those who failed biometric verification during the main exercise. While the board granted special dispensation to absentee candidates of the 2025 main and resit examinations, 91,742 candidates who were absent in both or either of the main and resit examinations were also provided an opportunity, which is granted only for the 2025 season.  

“Thus, 96,838 candidates are being rescheduled for the 2025 mop-up exercise in 183 centres across the nation, while others are kept on standby,” the board stated last month.

Jamb crackdown on fake admission letters

While providing information on the mop-up exercise result, JAMB made detailed updates on ongoing efforts to dismantle a syndicate engaged in the production of fake JAMB admission letters for a range of fees. With the assistance of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC), the examination body explained that it successfully apprehended a five-man syndicate engaged in the production and distribution of forged admission letters.

“The five arrested ringleaders confessed to producing the fake admission letters and are currently being prosecuted at the FHC, Abuja in the case between Inspector General of Police vs. Effa Leonard and four (4) others,” Benjamin said.

After the confession from the five-man syndicate, a total of 17,417 candidates were flagged as beneficiaries. 

“Between 2024 and May 2025, JAMB cleared 6,903 of these candidates after they rectified minor discrepancies. However, 10,514 candidates were referred to designated police investigation offices. Of these, 5,669 were confirmed to have procured forged admission letters outrightly,” he added. 

Benjamin highlighted that another 4,832 were found to have tried to bypass the Board’s formal process for undisclosed admissions (typically covered by a 2017–2020 ministerial waiver) by resorting to the syndicate. 

He also noted that 13 other candidates were flagged due to individual acts of omission or commission, where 12 of these cases date back to 2017 when the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) was introduced.

The flagged candidates, as revealed, are spread across institutions, including Bayero University Kano (2) and Enugu State University of Science and Technology (2). Others are one each from Ramat Polytechnic Maiduguri, Federal University of Technology Akure, Ekiti State University, Yaba College of Technology, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Osun State Polytechnic Ire, Ben Idahosa University, Obong University, and the University of Ilorin.

Following the JAMB meeting on 5 July 2025, the board resolved to provide the 13 candidates an opportunity to rectify the specific anomalies in their records and print new admission letters.