The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has released the results of the mop-up examination, which was held on Saturday, June 28.
It stated that the results of 11,161 candidates who participated instead of 96,838 candidates scheduled have been released.
This is contained in a statement by Fabian Benjamin, the spokesperson of the board.
It stated that candidates who are not able to access their results did not comply 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.
It stressed that the board uncovered a syndicate that forged fake admission letters for candidates.
According to the statement, “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 13th April 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 5 ring-leaders behind the scam.
The five arrested ring-leaders confessed to producing the fake admission letters and are currently being prosecuted at the FHC, Abuja.
It said that a total of 17,417 candidates were flagged as beneficiaries following the confession of the syndicates.
A report by the board to the federal ministry of education showed that 6,903 candidates with minor discrepancies were cleared, leaving behind 10,514 who had been referred to their nearest designated police investigation offices.
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The statement noted that 5,669 candidates among 10,514 were confirmed to have outrightly procured forged letters.
It said that while 4,832 candidates whose admissions were then undisclosed to JAMB and who were being processed for condonement by their confessing institutions under a (2017-2020) ministerial waiver, impatiently engaged the syndicate to side-step the process.
It said that 13 others were found to have been flagged due to one act of omission or commission on the part of the candidates.
12 of the 13 candidates registered in 2017 when CAPS was established.
These thirteen candidates are students of these tertiary institutions: Bayero university Kano (BUK) and Enugu state university of science and technology (ESUT); Ramat polytechnic, Maiduguri; Federal university of technology, Akure (FUTA); Ekiti state university, Ado-Ekiti (EKSUB); Yaba college of technology (YABATECH); Olabisi Onabanjo university, Ago Iwoye; Osun state polytechnic, Ire; Ben Idahosa university, Benin city; Obong university and Obong Ntak; University of Ilorin.
It furthered that the management of the Board at its meeting on the 5th July, 2025 decided that the 13 candidates flagged through one act of commission or omission should be requested to rectify their specific anomalies and proceed to print their new letters of admission.
“In addition, a total of 1,532 candidates, whose essential defence (though difficult to believe) was that they were not a party to the commissioning of the syndicate which help facilitated their admission letters, are hereby warned and condoned because their institutions had eventually processed their condonement of initially undisclosed admission-a procedure the candidates initially attempted to side-step.
“Thus, 3,300 candidates who are not processed for illegitimate or undisclosed admission by their claimed institutions remain under investigation.
“The Board’s screening processes continue and any candidate found to have employed or solicited assistance from examination and certificate fraudsters or deviated from laid down procedures for registration, examination or admission would continue to face the consequences which include prosecution under the Examination Malpractices Act which prescribes appropriate punishment even for the under-aged and their culpable mentors, guardians or parents.”
