By Janet Samuel Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the arrest of 27 individuals for impersonation during the ongoing 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
According to the board, the suspects have been handed over to the Nigeria Police for immediate prosecution as part of efforts to uphold the integrity of the examination process.
In a related development, JAMB has delisted four Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres for failing to meet the Board’s stringent technical and ethical standards.
The affected centres include:, Adventure Associate, Behind Sheshe Supermarket, Off Hadejia Road, Kano, Kano State, Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Zaria Road, Naibawa, Kano, Penta M & F Technical Services Ltd, Centre 1, 96km Sokoto–Jega Road, Tambuwal and Penta M & F Technical Services Ltd, Centre 2, 96km Sokoto–Jega Road, Tambuwal
JAMB, in a statement issued Friday night by its spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin commended the 883 CBT centres that have so far demonstrated exceptional performance.
“Any centre that fails to meet our technical or ethical benchmarks, regardless of ownership or location, will be blacklisted,” the statement said.
Candidates earlier scheduled to write their exams at the delisted centres are advised to urgently reprint their examination notification slips to reflect their new centres and rescheduled dates. The Board emphasized that failure to do so would not be excused.
As of Friday, April 25, 2025, over 900,000 of the 2,083,600 registered candidates have successfully taken the UTME.
Meanwhile, JAMB addressed concerns over an incident at Caleb University CBT centre where candidates wearing hijabs were reportedly restricted. The Board attributed the act to an overzealous security officer and confirmed that swift action had been taken.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university has since condemned the action, and JAMB has assured the public that no candidate suffered any undue disadvantage. Apologies have been extended to the affected candidates, and the board praised the prompt intervention by the university’s leadership.
