135 Underage Candidates Affected As Varsities Delay Post-UTME Scores

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced an accommodation successful the last day for the scheduled appraisal of underage candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Examination Board (UTME).

This follows delays by immoderate universities successful submitting post-UTME scores arsenic earlier agreed.
According to JAMB, the National Examinations Council (NECO) released the 2025 SSCE results connected Wednesday, September 17, 2025.

However, successful a property connection connected Thursday, by the adjacent of the submission deadline for screening scores connected September 15, JAMB’s nationalist connection advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said 23 of the 71 universities chosen by the candidates had not uploaded their results.

According to him, the hold has affected 135 candidates. The highest numbers are from the University of Lagos (39 candidates), Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja (18) and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (15).
Other institutions see the University of Abuja (12), University of Uyo (9), Federal University of Technology, Owerri (8), David Umahi Federal University of Health Sciences, Uburu (6) and University of Calabar (6).

Lagos State University (5), Bingham University (3), Federal University, Lokoja (2) and Lead City University (2) are besides connected the list, alongside respective others with 1 affected campaigner each.
Fabian said, “By this property merchandise and emails sent to the defaulting universities, they are urged to taxable their screening scores without further delay. The aboriginal of these candidates indispensable not beryllium jeopardised by administrative lapses.”

JAMB further reminded the institutions of the deadlines already fixed astatine the 2025 argumentation gathering connected admissions. “All nationalist universities indispensable upload their recommended candidates connected the cardinal admissions processing strategy (CAPS) connected oregon earlier Tuesday, September 30, 2025, portion backstage universities are expected to bash truthful connected oregon earlier Friday, October 31, 2025,” the connection read.

He stressed that the timelines would not beryllium shifted. “These dates are sacrosanct arsenic decided astatine the 2025 argumentation gathering connected admissions nether the chairmanship of Dr Maruf Tunji Alausa, the curate of education. JAMB volition not entertain excuses for non-compliance,” helium added.

The committee emphasised that timely compliance is important to guarantee that the admittance process is concluded smoothly and without further disruption to the affected candidates.