JAMB Fixes Mop-Up UTME Date For 96,838 Candidates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed the date for 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mop-up exercise.

A statement signed by JAMB’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin on Sunday, disclosed that the examination will be held on Saturday, June 28, 2025.

According to the statement, the examination will accommodate 96,838 candidates, including 5,096 spill-over candidates and those who failed biometric verification during the main exercise, as well as 91,742 candidates who were absent in the main and resit examinations.

JAMB urged candidates to commence printing their examination notification slips from Monday, June 23, 2025.

It noted that the examination will be conducted in 183 centers across the nation, with strict security measures in place to prevent examination malpractice.

The statement added that in a bid to crack down on examination malpractices, JAMB has delisted or suspended 113 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centers implicated in sharp practices.

The board also appreciated security agencies, including the State Security Service (SSS), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for their efforts in investigating and prosecuting culprits.

It advised candidates to arrive at least one hour before the examination commencement time of 8:00 am.

“The first session for the examination day starts, as usual, at 8:00am. Candidates for the 8:00am session are therefore advised in their own interest to arrive one or one and half hours before the actual commencement of the examination at 8:00am,” the statement said.

It also warned that candidates from delisted examination towns will be assigned to the nearest examination centers.

“As a result of the investigation, a number of examination towns are no longer eligible to be used for the mop up examinations. Few candidates who fall into the deactivated examination towns would be assigned to examination towns closest to the delisted towns. We seek the understanding of such candidates,” it said.

The Board has reiterated its commitment to ensuring the integrity of the examination process and has vowed to prosecute any candidate found guilty of malpractice.

“The scheduled mop up examination provides the opportunity to further apprehend more impersonators particularly current undergraduate students who impersonate UTME candidates.

“Institutions of apprehended undergraduates are already being notified of the gross misconduct of their students in order to invoke the violation of the matriculation oath already taken by the students to flush them out of the various tertiary institutions, in addition to their prosecution under the examination malpractice Act, 1999 which makes provisions for imprisonment even of the under-aged and their indulgent parents.

“Special squads of invigilators/security personnel are being deployed in the continuation of the current war already declared by the Hon. Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Tunji Alausa, CON on examination malpractices and their perpetrators both high and low,” the statement said.

JAMB Fixes Mop-Up UTME Date For 96,838 Candidates is first published on The Whistler Newspaper