JAMB admits to error in 2025 UTME, orders resit for 387,000 candidates
By KEMI KASUMU
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has admitted to a technical error that compromised the integrity of the results from the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in 157 centres across the country.
JAMB Registrar/Chief Executive, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, stated this at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday May 14, 2025.
This followed widespread complaints of technical glitches, unusually low scores, and alleged irregularities in the just-concluded UTME.
Professor Oloyede, who wept profusely, intermittently wiping his face with a handkerchief, said he took full responsibility for the negligence of its staff, revealing that 65 centres in Lagos and 92 centres in the Owerri Zone, covering the five states in the South East, would rewrite the exam.
“I apologise for the trauma caused to the candidates and I take full responsibility for this,” he said
