The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced Saturday, June 28, as the date for the conduct of the 2025, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, mop-up examination.
The announcement was made on Sunday in a statement by the examination body.
It said that the first session for the examination day would start at 8:00 a.m.
Candidates for the 8:00 a.m. session, JAMB advised to, “in their own to arrive one or one and half hour before the actual commencement of the examination at 8:00 a.m.”
“Eligible and genuine candidates are advised to print their examination notification slips from Monday, 23rd June 2025 in preparation for the mop up examination scheduled for Saturday, 28th June, 2025,” the board said.
It stated that the examination would accommodate the 5,096 spill-over candidates and those who failed biometric verification during the main exercise.
According to the board, due to the special dispensation granted 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 would be given the opportunity which is granted only for 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 examination body stated.
It explained that in addition to centres being delisted for technical deficiencies during the mock, UTME and resit examinations, a large number of CBT centres implicated for sharp practices in the on-going security investigation were being suspended and those found culpable would be delisted and reported for prosecution.
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“Consequently, 113 CBT centres have been delisted or suspended from across the country. Some other implicated in multiple infractions in the main or resit examinations exercise,” the board said.
The board applauded security agencies for efforts which were said to have led to the arrest and prosecution of tens of culprits, including few JAMB officials, professional examination takers and syndicates of some school proprietors and tutorial centres involved in infractions.
It explained that as a result of the investigation, a number of examination towns were 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,” the board said.
The scheduled mop up examination, JAMB said, provided the opportunity to further apprehend more impersonators, particularly current undergraduate students who impersonated UTME candidates.
It said that institutions of apprehended undergraduates were 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, JAMB said, were being deployed in the continuation of the current war already declared by the Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Tunji Alausa, on examination malpractices and their perpetrators both high and low.
