The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has rescheduled the 379,997 applicants who were impacted by the error for a new Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination.
Following a press event in Abuja on Wednesday, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the registrar of the examination organization, announced the rescheduling, which started Thursday morning.
In a reissued test slip seen Thursday morning, Punch reports that one of the impacted applicants has been rescheduled to take her exam on Saturday, May 17, 2025, by 12 p.m. at one of the Lagos centers in the Igando village, which is located in the state’s Alimosho Local Government Area.
According to reports, Oloyede acknowledged that 206,610 students at 65 locations in Lagos and 92 locations in the Owerri zone—a total of 173,387 candidates throughout the five South East states—were affected by mistakes in the just ended exam.
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Oloyede acknowledged, “One or two mistakes have changed what should have been a moment of joy.” “Even after we arranged every piece of equipment, mistakes persisted.”
He went on to say that “206,610 in 65 centers in Lagos and 92 centers in the Owerri zone comprising 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East were affected.”
The impacted candidates will begin receiving SMS messages from the Board on Thursday, Oloyede, who accepted responsibility for what he called a “sabotage” of the 2025 UTME, said.
Additionally, he announced that impacted applicants will now have the chance to repeat the test from May 16 to May 19, 2025.
