The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has delisted 4 Pc-Based mostly Testing (CBT) centres and arrested 27 impersonators throughout the ongoing 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Abuja.
This was contained in an announcement issued to newsmen in Abuja on Friday by the Board’s Spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin.
Candidates who have been scheduled to take their examinations at any of the affected centres have been suggested to reprint their examination notification slips instantly.
“We remorse any inconvenience this may increasingly trigger, however we won’t tolerate excuses from candidates who fail to reprint their slips,” Benjamin warned.
In response to Dr Benjamin, the CBT centres have been delisted for failing to satisfy the stringent technical requirements required for the UTME train.
The delisted centres embody:
“Whereas JAMB commends the 883 centres which have demonstrated distinctive efficiency, it unequivocally warns that any centre failing to satisfy moral or technical requirements, no matter possession, will probably be blacklisted,” Dr Benjamin acknowledged
He additional famous that as of Friday, April 25, 2025, over 900,000 candidates had efficiently accomplished the UTME out of the two,083,600 registered for the 2025 examination.
In a associated growth, JAMB additionally reported the arrest of 27 impersonators who tried to sit down for the UTME on behalf of others.
Benjamin disclosed that the suspects had been handed over to the Nigeria Police for rapid prosecution.
Addressing a separate incident at Caleb College, Dr Benjamin confirmed that the Board was alerted to the “unauthorised restrictions positioned on candidates carrying hijabs.”
He added that swift motion was taken following the incident.
“We lengthen our honest apologies to the affected candidates and commend the management of each the centre and the college for his or her immediate intervention, which ensured that no candidate suffered undue drawback,” JAMB acknowledged.
The Vice-Chancellor of Caleb College was stated to have condemned the actions of an “overzealous safety officer” accountable for the unauthorised restriction.
The examination board lately launched decoy web sites designed to entice people looking for to cheat. These web sites, which mimic these operated by fraudsters, have been a part of a sting operation that uncovered not less than 180 candidates who paid sums ranging from N30,000 for leaked examination questions and pretend rating upgrades
As a part of its preparations for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) disbursed a complete of N397,030,900 as transport allowances to 1,909 officers who participated within the conduct of the mock examination held nationwide on April 10, 2025.
