The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has delisted 5 Laptop-Based mostly Check (CBT) centres over technical failures in the course of the ongoing 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
In an announcement signed by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the Board stated the delisted centres, situated in Kano, Sokoto, and Imo states, have been discovered to have fallen wanting the Board’s minimal operational requirements.
The affected centres embody: Journey Affiliate, Off Hadejia Street, Kano; Saadatu Rimi Faculty of Schooling, Zaria Street, Naibawa, Kano; Penta M & F Technical Providers Ltd, Centre 1, 96km Sokoto-Jega Street, Tambuwal; Penta M & F Technical Providers Ltd, Centre 2, 96km Sokoto-Jega Street, Tambuwal and Soronara Ventured Nigeria Restricted, Basis Street, Umudagu Mbieri, Imo State.
The Board advises candidates who have been beforehand scheduled to take their exams on the delisted centres to urgently reprint their examination notification slips to entry their new centres and rescheduled dates.
“We remorse any inconvenience this may occasionally trigger, however we is not going to tolerate excuses by candidates who fail to reprint their slip to get their new schedules,” it acknowledged.
It added that as of Friday, 25 April, over 900,000 candidates have efficiently accomplished the UTME out of the two,083,600 registered for the 2025 examination.
“We commend the 883 centres which have demonstrated distinctive efficiency and we unequivocally warn that any centre which failed the moral or technical requirements, no matter possession, will probably be blacklisted,” it added.
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Arrests and impersonation
In a separate improvement, the examination physique stated 27 people have been apprehended for impersonation, including that the suspects have been “handed over to the Nigeria Police for speedy prosecution.”
The arrests spotlight the Board’s rising efforts on biometric verification and surveillance to fight examination malpractice.
Hijab incident at Caleb College
JAMB additionally responded to a latest controversy involving candidates carrying hijabs at Caleb College, Lagos, one of many authorised UTME centres.
In response to the Board, a safety official on the establishment had unilaterally imposed restrictions on hijab-wearing candidates, a call that JAMB described as ‘unauthorised and misguided.’
The Board stated the difficulty was shortly addressed following intervention by the college’s Vice-Chancellor, who categorically condemned the motion.
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“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,” the assertion learn.
Background
The UTME is a compulsory examination for candidates looking for admission into Nigerian tertiary establishments.
Every year, JAMB accredits lots of of CBT centres nationwide to host the exams, however issues over capability, technical glitches, and malpractice have plagued the method in earlier years.
To handle these challenges, JAMB has elevated its management measures, together with monitoring of centres, biometric verification, and penalties for infractions.
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