The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that a blind candidate hired a fellow blind man to impersonate him for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB Registrar Prof Ishaq Oloyede, who spoke at a press briefing on Friday, disclosed that the blind impersonator is an undergraduate.
Oloyede stated that the board remains committed to supporting persons with disabilities aspiring to pursue tertiary education.
“The Prof. Peter Okebukola-led JAMB Equal Opportunity Group continues to demonstrate exceptional dedication in ensuring that these candidates are able to sit examinations, regardless of their challenges.
“JAMB refunds to the blind and some categories of challenged candidates their registration fee in addition to providing transportation, lodging and feeding for them.
“For the 2025 UTME, a total of 501 candidates were successfully examined by JEOG across 11 centres nationwide. The results are also being released today.
“Sadly, one of them was also involved in impersonation by recruiting an undergraduate student who is also blind to come and write for another blind candidate,” he said.
Daily Sun reported that 50 of the underage UTME candidates were implicated in a cheating syndicate scandal.
The results for underage candidates as released by JAMB indicated that 467 candidates (1.16%) scored 320 and above; 667 candidates (1.66%) scored 300 to 319; 4, 665 candidates (11.59%) scored 250 to 299; 12, 357 (30.69%) scored 200 to 249; 15, 978 candidates (39.69%) scored 160 to 199; 5,528 candidates (13.73%) scored 140 to 159; 5,541 candidates (1.38%) scored 120 to 139; 30 candidates (0.07%) scored 100 to 119; 15 candidates (0.04%) scored below 100.