BREAKING NEWS: JAMB releases 2025 UTME results

There is breaking news for admission-seeking individuals: the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) examinations

The board announced the release today stating that results of 39,834 candidates have however been withheld.

The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made the announcement at JAMB headquarters, Bwari Abuja.

Providing a lead on the reason for seizure of some results, Oloyede cited examination malpractices.

There is however more on the breaking news on JAMB: He said about 80 individuals are currently being questioned by the authority for exam-related offences.

Of this number, Anambra State is in the lead.

”The new trends observed this year were in the Registration and Examination processes, and they were mainly in the following categories; Identity Fraud, and Biometric Fraud of Combined Thumbprint of Candidate”, Oloyede said..

“Other infractions were impersonator at the point of registration with the active involvement of few CBT Centres, double registration, and attempted substitution of self by candidates.”

Other details of the address y Oloyede are as follows:

Number of unreleased results: 39,834

UTME Results under scrutiny & Processing:  1,426

Results withheld due to exam malpractices: 96

Candidates whose forms suffered Fingerprint rejections:  2,157

Number of candidates verified for the exam:  1,957,000

Number of candidates absent: 71,705

Number of candidates caught in “WhatsApp runs: 244

Number of candidates with “extraneous fingerprints”: 3,656

CBT Centres implicated for extraneous finger prints:

1. Tigh Technologies Limited, Abuja
2. Sascon International School, Maitama, Abuja,
3. Wudil Computer Information Technology. Wudil, Kano State and
4. Penta M &Amp; Centre 2, Tambuwal LGA, Sokoto, Sokoto State.