The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has advised the candidates who sat the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to stop panicking over the perceived challenges in their efforts to upload their Senior School Certificate Examination results.
The examination body disclosed that candidates will be offered an opportunity to re-upload their results to its portal due to the abrupt recall of the results of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) earlier released by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
JAMB confirmed the development exclusively to DevReporting following an inquiry on the options available to WASSCE candidates who had earlier uploaded their results to the JAMB portal before WAEC recalled the results.
What happened?
On Monday, 4 August, WAEC announced the release of its 2025 WASSCE results, declaring that only 38.32 per cent of its almost 2 million candidates who sat the examination could be regarded as having performed well in the examination by securing credit in five subjects, including English and Mathematics.
The Head of Nigeria’s Office (HNO) of WAEC, Amos Dangut, while announcing the results, expressed frustration over the activities of those he described as examination malpractice syndicates and rogue website operators, who he noted were hellbent on compromising the standard of the examination.
He blamed the activities of this syndicate for the logistical challenges experienced by WAEC on 28 May when candidates were kept at centres across some states in Nigeria till late in the night while sitting the English Language papers.
However, on 7 August, WAEC announced that it was recalling the results already released, noting that an error was detected in the collation process.
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Meanwhile, on Friday, 8 August, new results were announced by the examination body, indicating a significant increase in the percentage of candidates who secured credits in five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics. The percentage now stands at 62.96.
UTME candidates in a fix
Findings by DevReporting revealed that many 2025 WASSCE candidates, who had initially successfully checked and printed their results before they were recalled by WAEC, had also uploaded the same on their JAMB portal for their admission into tertiary institutions.
However, since the new results were released by the examination body, it has been difficult for them to update their uploads.
According to a parent, who craved anonymity, though their child now has a better result, the challenge of updating the JAMB portal has constituted a major problem.
This newspaper also learnt that many other candidates have been unable to upload their results on the portal, even as they claim that JAMB did not respond to inquiries shared on its social media handles.
JAMB offers solution
Speaking with DevReporting on Thursday evening, the Public Affairs Advisor of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, said the examination body was aware of the challenge faced by the affected candidates, noting that it would soon announce the solution.
In a terse response to the inquiry, Mr Benjamin said: “We are pulling everything down, so that everyone will start to upload afresh.”.
He, however, did not state when the announcement would be made by JAMB, but assured every candidate to be calm.
Like WAEC, like JAMB
Both WAEC and JAMB in 2025 experienced technical issues during the conduct of their examinations, prompting them to release results multiple times.
JAMB had suffered a similar fate when it released the results of the 2025 UTME, which were met with criticism from education experts, public analysts, parents, and students.
The examination body had to hold fresh examinations for the affected candidates, a development that cast doubt on the integrity of the country’s national examination. The latest development with WASSCE would further damage the integrity of national examination bodies and public institutions.
