The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ,JAMB, has said the results of 379,997 candidates who sat for the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination ,UTME, between Friday and Monday, will be released tomorrow.
The spokesperson of the body , Dr Fabian Benjamin, said in an interview on Monday that “The results of the candidates who took the rescheduled exam will be released on Wednesday”.
JAMB had admitted technical glitches and human errors after mass failure was recorded in Lagos and the South-East.
The Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, had disclosed that 206,610 candidates in Lagos and 173,387 in the South-East were affected.
Oloyede, in an emotional admission, took full responsibility for the failure and described the situation as “sabotage”.
He announced that affected candidates would receive text notifications for the resit beginning last Thursday.
Since the incident, the exam body had been slammed by Nigerians, with some calling for the resignation of JAMB Registrar.
South-East Caucus in the House of Representatives in a statement called for Oloyede’s immediate resignation, describing the board’s handling of the 2025 UTME as a “catastrophic institutional failure”.
“Last week, particularly on May 14, 2025, the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made a shocking public admission that due to a ‘technical glitch’ at some examination centres during the 2025 UTME, approximately 379,997 out of 1.9 million candidates would be required to resit the exam,” the lawmakers said in a statement signed by Iduma Igariwey (PDP, Ebonyi).
They added, “As a caucus, we are deeply concerned, as all five South-Eastern states we represent were directly affected by these so-called ‘score distortions.’”
The lawmakers also criticised the board for poor communication, short notice to candidates, and clashes with ongoing WAEC examinations, saying students experienced “unnecessary trauma”.
“JAMB’s knee-jerk, fire-brigade approach has been anything but adequate,” the statement read. They demanded cancellation of the 2025 UTME and a fresh schedule after WAEC and NECO exams.
