From Fred Ezeh, Abuja
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) disclosed on Friday, that no fewer than 82 inmates from different correctional centres in the country participated in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Its Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja, to officially announce the release of the 2025 UTME results.
He stated that 29 inmates were from Ilorin Correctional Centre, 40 from Kaduna Correctional Centre, and 13 from Lagos Correctional Centre.
He said: “This is in line with the JAMB’s unwavering commitment to supporting eligible inmates in their quest for further education. We made robust provisions for these inmates from the various Correctional Centres that are nearing the end of their sentences to register for the UTME, and they successfully participated.”
JAMB Registrar further disclosed that a total of 2,030,862 candidates registered for the 2025 UTME, which was conducted across 882 CBT centres, each of which was generally monitored by 10 invigilators of different categories.
He confirmed that over 10,000 officials were involved in conducting, monitoring and managing the exercise. Without equivocation, this year’s exercise will be remembered as the most successful in recent times.
Regarding the UTME results, the JAMB Registrar stated that out of the total number of 2,030,862 candidates registered for the 2025 UTME, 1,957,000 were successfully verified for the examination, 71,705 were absent and a total of 2,157 candidates’ fingerprints were rejected by the machines as invalid.
“This failure was beyond the acceptable normal margin of failure. Subsequent discoveries in this regard indicated that a number of the candidates whose fingers were unrecognised had one question of registration infraction or another to answer. Each of these cases would be reviewed and determined on its merit.”
He further stated that of the 41,027 registered underaged candidates, 40,260 sat for the examination whose UTME results are being isolated for further tests to identify the normally few exceptional candidates.
“However, results for 1,911,551 candidates have been released which makes the available results to be 1.951, 811,” he stated.