The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has confirmed the arrest of 27 impersonators during the ongoing 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), handing them over to the Nigeria Police for immediate prosecution.
In a statement released Friday night by JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the board also announced the delisting of four Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres for failing to meet the “stringent technical standards” required for conducting the UTME.
The affected centres are:
- Adventure Associate, Behind Sheshe Supermarket, Off Hadejia Road, Kano, Kano State
- Saadatu Rimi College of Education, Zaria Road, Naibawa, Kano, Kano State
- Penta M & F Technical Services Ltd, Centre 2, 96km Sokoto-Jega Road, Tambuwal
- Penta M & F Technical Services Ltd, Centre 1, 96km Sokoto-Jega Road, Tambuwal
“While JAMB commends the 883 centres that have demonstrated exceptional performance, it unequivocally warns that any centre which failed the ethical or technical standards, regardless of ownership, will be blacklisted,” the board said.
The statement further advised candidates affected by the delisting of centres to immediately reprint their examination notification slips to obtain updated information about their new venues and exam schedules.
“Candidates who were previously scheduled to take their exams at the delisted centres are urged to urgently reprint their examination notification slips to access their new centres and rescheduled dates.”
“We regret any inconvenience this may cause, but we will not tolerate excuses by candidates who fail to reprint their slip to get their new schedules,” it emphasized.
As of April 25, 2025, JAMB disclosed that over 900,000 candidates out of the 2,083,600 registered have successfully completed the UTME.
In a related development, the board addressed concerns over alleged discrimination against hijab-wearing candidates at Caleb University CBT centre.
“JAMB said it has been alerted to the unauthorized restrictions imposed on candidates wearing hijabs in its Caleb University Centre, and swift action has been taken to address this unilateral decision, which has been categorically condemned by the Vice-Chancellor of the university.”
“This misguided action was the result of an overzealous security officer. We extend our sincere apologies to the affected candidates and commend the leadership of both the centre and the university for their prompt intervention, which ensured that no candidate suffered undue disadvantage,” JAMB concluded.
