The results of Saturday, June 28, 2025’s mop-up exam were made public by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
Of the 96,838 applicants who were slated to participate in the mop-up exercise, 11,161 have had their results made public.
Candidates who are unable to view their results have not properly followed the instructions to send “UTMERESULT” (as a single word text) to 55019/66019 using the same phone number (SIM) with which they enrolled for the UTME, according to JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin.
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In providing an update on a syndicate of phony admission letters, the Board recalled that on April 13, 2024, the Nigeria Police Force’s PPRO and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board held a joint news conference, after which a thorough investigation was started.
Inspector General of Police Vs. Effa Leonard and four (4) other people are currently being prosecuted at the FHC, Abuja, after the Board disclosed that the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC) helped the police capture the five ringleaders behind the scam who admitted to creating the phony admission letters.
Following the syndicate’s admission, 17,417 candidates were identified as beneficiaries.
A total of 6,903 applicants who were asked to correct minor inconsistencies were cleared between 2024 and May 2025, when the Board provided an update to the Federal Ministry of Education. The remaining 10,514 candidates were directed to the closest designated police investigation offices. 5,669 of the 10,514 candidates were found to have directly obtained forged letters, while 4,832 candidates, whose admission was afterwards kept a secret from JAMB and who were being processed for condonement by their confessing institutions under a ministerial waiver from 2017 to 2020, impatiently enlisted the syndicate to circumvent the procedure.
The Board cautioned that any candidate who diverged from established procedures for registration, examination, or admission, or who hired or solicited assistance from examination and certificate fraudsters, would continue to face consequences, including prosecution under the Examination Malpractices Act, which stipulates suitable punishment even for minors and their responsible parents, guardians, or mentors.
