JAMB Candidates Dodge 2025 Mop-Up UTME For Fear Of Arrest

Do you know why many candidate to the 2025 Mop-Up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held nationwide on Saturday, June 28, dodged the examination?

They were afraid they could be arrested by the police, the Joint Admissions & Matriculation Board (JAMB), has revealed.

The board said such fears by impersonators, either proxy candidates or others involved in identity fraud, eventually affected the turnout of candidates to the exam.

JAMB Registrar Professor Is-haq Oloyede, said over 90,000 candidates were scheduled to sit for the mop-up exam but that far fewer showed up.

This was to the point that some centres expecting 250 candidates per session recorded less than 20 in attendance.

“What you have is a bunch of fraudulent individuals parading themselves as tutorial centres along with some private school proprietors who have constituted themselves into syndicates for examination malpractice,” he said.

“Given the work that we have done in conjunction with the DSS, the NSCDC and the police, we have been able to get some actionable intelligence that we could use to apprehend impersonators. So, we felt that it’s better to keep the door open as wide as possible. At least to apprehend impersonators,” Oloyede said.

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The board, the registrar added was however giving candidates who were absent to the 2025 Mop-Up UTME for whatever reason, another chance.

“Therefore, in the wisdom of the management and our stakeholders, we felt everybody who missed the exam should be given another opportunity, regardless of the reasons for missing the exam in the first instance.”