JAMB to reschedule UTME for 379,997 candidates affected by technical glitches in southeast, Lagos
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB
Abdullateef Fowewe
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it would reschedule 379,997 candidates affected by technical glitches in the five states of the South East and Lagos to retake the Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in a press briefing on Wednesday.
He said, “206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos and 92 centres in the Owerri zone comprising 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East were affected.”
Oloyede, who took responsibility for what he described as a “sabotage” of the 2025 UTME, said the affected candidates will start getting text messages from the Board starting Thursday.
“The affected candidates will start getting text messages for rescheduling starting from tomorrow.
“I apologise, I take full responsibility, he added.
Recall that out of the 1.9 million candidates who sat the UTME, over 1.5 million reportedly scored below 200 out of the maximum 400 marks, raising concerns across the education sector.
