JAMB is set to reschedule UTME 2025 for 379,997 candidates in Lagos and the South East due to what the board described as “sabotage” Lagos had 206,610 candidates affected across 65 centres, while 173,387 candidates in 92 centres in five states in the South East were also impacted The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, confirmed this in a terse statement and shared further details on Wednesday
FCT, Abuja – On Wednesday, May 14, the 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South East and Lagos will be rescheduled for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB to notify affected candidates of new exam dates
JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.
As reported by The Punch, Oloyede, who took responsibility for what he described as a “sabotage” of the 2025 UTME, said the affected candidates would start getting text messages from the board starting Thursday, May 15.
JAMB results error: Educare tech team shares insights
Meanwhile, the Educare tech team has shared its findings after participating in a high-level session held at the JAMB headquarters in Abuja. The team headed by Engr James Nnanyelugo revealed that systemic upgrades intended to improve fairness and performance in the 2025 UTME were not uniformly deployed across all test centres.
While new features, such as source-based answer validation, randomised question delivery, and system optimisations, were fully implemented in the Kaduna (KAD) server cluster, the Lagos (LAG) cluster, servicing centres in Lagos and the southeast, ran on outdated server configurations.
Data gathered from over 18,000 candidates corroborated the findings, prompting JAMB to acknowledge the error and announce remedial action.
JAMB Registrar Oloyede, in a press briefing following the review, issued a formal apology and confirmed that all affected candidates would be allowed to retake the exam at no additional cost. The board also said it had reached an agreement with the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to avoid clashes with ongoing SSCE exams.
Candidates are expected to reprint their examination slips by Friday, May 17, to confirm their revised schedules. Read more:
The Educare tech team emphasised that the incident highlighted the need for stronger deployment validation and real-time monitoring, urging JAMB to enhance its quality assurance frameworks moving forward.
