The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) resit, conducted for candidates affected by disruptions at certain examination centres.
The Board disclosed this yesterday via its official X account (formerly Twitter), in a statement signed by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor.
JAMB expressed appreciation to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for kindly providing a window for the resit examination.
The Board lamented that while some Nigerians continue to focus on conspiracy theories and the spread of hatred, the nation’s future is being endangered by increasingly sophisticated forms of digital examination fraud.
“During the 2025 examinations, further high-level malpractices were uncovered, which led to the withdrawal of some results and the arrest of several culprits across the country some of whom have made useful confessions.
“These unwholesome practices include collusion between certain CBT centre and school proprietors often with the connivance of accredited centres to hack the networks of targeted CBT centres. This gave them control of candidates’ computers, allowing remote submission of responses to the local server of the centres, as recently discovered by security agencies, to whom we are profoundly grateful,” the statement read.
JAMB emphasised that each of the 882 centres used by the Board operates on a separate local server, some of which were compromised. However, it reassured the public that JAMB’s central server remains secure and impervious to breaches.
“Other fraudulent activities include AI-enabled photo blending of candidates with impersonators many of whom are current undergraduate students and registration using combined fingerprints, which involves using fingerprints from multiple individuals for a single candidate’s registration.”
The Board further revealed the extension of Local Area Networks (LAN) from examination centres to remote “strong rooms,” and the pairing of candidates with professional mercenaries often following intentional disruption of seating arrangements.
“Over 3,000 candidates nationwide have been identified as either accomplices or beneficiaries of this extraordinary examination fraud. As investigations continue, all candidates implicated in these activities will have their results withdrawn once incontrovertible evidence is established, even if those results have already been released.”
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