ABUJA – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced significant errors in its 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. This has impacted over 379,997 candidates. Consequently, JAMB has mandated a UTME resit 2025 for all affected students across 157 centers located in Lagos and the South-East.
JAMB Registrar Professor Is-haq Oloyede offered an apology for the disruption. He attributed the problems to a combination of technical glitches and human errors. “What should have been a moment of joy has changed due to one or two errors,” Prof. Oloyede acknowledged.
Resit Exams to Commence May 16: What Candidates Must Do
Professor Oloyede has outlined the schedule for the new examinations. Affected candidates will start their UTME resit 2025 from Friday, May 16, 2025. JAMB is actively reaching out to these candidates. Notifications will be delivered via text messages, email, individual candidate profiles on the JAMB portal, and direct phone calls.
It is crucial for all affected candidates to reprint their examination slips. These updated slips will contain the specific rescheduled dates and designated centers. JAMB has also proactively collaborated with the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). This ensures that candidates facing timetable clashes, particularly for the Agricultural Science paper on Friday, will be accommodated. “Any candidate with a clash of timetable, particularly for Agricultural Science on Friday, would be rescheduled,” Oloyede assured.
Scope of Impact: Lagos and South-East Centers Detailed
The errors were identified in a total of 157 examination centers.
- Lagos zone: 65 centers experienced issues.
- Owerri zone (South-East): 92 centers faced similar problems. The Owerri zone covers Abia, Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi, and Anambra states.
In Lagos, 206,610 candidates were impacted by these UTME result errors. Across the South-East states, 173,387 candidates found themselves affected. This makes the upcoming UTME resit 2025 a considerable logistical undertaking for the board.
Understanding the Cause of the UTME Result Errors
Professor Oloyede also shed light on the root cause of the widespread errors. He explained JAMB’s operational grouping of states into ‘KAD vehicle’ and ‘LAG vehicle’ categories. An issue arose when the board detected that examination questions within the LAG category had not been shuffled correctly, leading to the initial discrepancies.
Despite efforts to rectify this primary problem, the technical team responsible failed to update some critical delivery servers. This oversight ultimately resulted in the incorrect results being issued to some candidates. “In clear terms, in the process of rectifying the issue, the technical personnel deployed by the Service Provider for LAG inadvertently failed to update some of the delivery servers,” Oloyede elaborated.
By Abdullah Korede
