Tag: UTME

JAMB Extends Assessment Deadline for Underage UTME Candidates

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The date of the final evaluation for minors who took the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has been moved by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The Board claims that the change was required since 23 of the 71 universities selected by the impacted candidates did not submit their Post-UTME screening results by the original September 15, 2025, deadline. JAMB stated in a statement signed by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, its Public Communication Advisor, that some schools had not complied with the National Examinations Council’s (NECO) September 17 announcement…

JAMB Panel Finds Over 6,000 Cases of AI and Biometric Malpractice

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Over 6,000 instances of technology-enabled malpractice in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination have been found by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s  (JAMB) Special Committee on Examination Infractions. Dr. Jake Epelle, the chairman of the committee, revealed the results during Monday’s report presentation in Abuja. Epelle discovered that 1,878 candidates erroneously claimed to be albinos, while others engaged in biometric fraud and digital identity manipulation during the performance of the examination. The panel also recorded many examples of bogus National Identification Numbers, credential forgery, and syndicate-backed fraud operations. Exam…

Hackers Reveal How They Breached CBT Exam Servers

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There have been allegations of widespread malpractice during the most recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME  against certain operators of computer-based test CBT centres  approved by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. According to investigations, the operators gave tech-savvy people technical information, and those people subsequently broke into servers and changed how the test was conducted. Technical issues that JAMB encountered in May caused the 2025 UTME to be a huge failure, with 1.5 million of the 1.9 million candidates who took the test receiving scores below 200 out of…