Over 40 candidates nabbed for impersonation — JAMB

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede, has vowed to ensure the prosecution of more than 40 candidates who have been apprehended for impersonation in the ongoing 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

He also declared that there would be no rescheduling for candidates who missed the examination for whatever reason.

Speaking on Monday during monitoring of the examination in some Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres in Abuja, Oloyede described this year’s UTME as one of the best examinations so far conducted by JAMB.

He revealed that more than 1,600,000 out of 2,031,000 candidates who registered for the 2025 UTME have successfully taken the examination.

According to him, the Board would likely round off the conduct of the examination on Tuesday, with about 500,000 candidates remaining.

The Registrar noted that the Board was not in a hurry to release the results, saying adequate time was needed to thoroughly scrutinise the results for any possible trace of examination malpractices.

“We have arrested over 40 people for impersonation. Some of them very funny. Some even went to our examination hall with camera to snap the screen and be sending it out. They don’t know that our own exam is not that type of exam.

“At least 40 persons are in custody and we will see that they are prosecuted by the police,” he stated.

On rescheduling of candidates who missed the examination, Oloyede said: “No, we don’t reschedule anybody. If you are going to UK and you miss the flight, will you tell the plane to come back?”

The JAMB boss further clarified that JAMB did not impose examination towns on the candidates, insisting that candidates made their choice of examination town during registration for the UTME.

He said: “This is one of our best examinations so far, for which we are grateful to God. But you can also see that some people are making a case out of no case.

“We have always started our exam at 8 o’clock. The first session is 8 o’clock, the second session 10.30, the third session 1 p.m., and the fourth session at 3.30 p.m.