JAMB withholds results of 39,834 UTME candidates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it withheld the results of 39,834 candidates out of the over 1.9 million applicants in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). 

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, stated this on Friday, May 9, while officially releasing the 2025 UTME results. 

He explained that the results were withheld over issues relating to examination irregularities. 

He also disclosed that while 41,000 underage candidates registered for the exercise, 467 met the prescribed minimum score, adding that 50 were engaged in a cheating scandal. 

This comes following revelations that 80 suspects across the country are currently under interrogation for examination fraud.