The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board –JAMB—in a press release on Monday had agreed to check ‘potential technical issues’ and thus review its candidate result.

This is coming after mass condemnation trailed the release of result on 9 May 2025, with some of their candidates coming online to challenge the examination body, alleging that the mark given was below expectation or too poor in some cases.

With over 78% of 1.9M candidates scoring below 200, JAMB also withheld 39,834 results for suspected malpractices, with some people blaming educational underinvestment by government in the educational sector.

“The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) acknowledges the significant volume of unusual complaints following the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results, which were officially published last Friday.

“In response, the Board is fast forwarding its annual system review—a comprehensive post-mortem of the examination process that is conducted each year months after the exercise.

Addressing the issue is the Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin who listed some of the things that could have caused the seemingly error and had promised that the body is currently looking into the situation in order to remedy it, if indeed the fault is from them.

 In his words: “The Board’s annual review encompasses three key stages: registration, examination, and result release. During the examination phase, JAMB ensures that every candidate is afforded the opportunity to sit for the test. Should any technical issues arise, the Board reschedules the examination for affected candidates without hesitation.

“We are particularly concerned about the unusual complaints originating from a few states within the Federation. We are currently scrutinising these complaints in detail to identify and rectify any potential technical issues.

“To assist in this process, we have engaged a number of experts, including members from the Computer Professionals Association of Nigeria, Chief External Examiners, who are heads of tertiary institutions, the Educational Assessment and Research Network in Africa, measurement experts, and Vice Chancellors from various institutions.

“If it is determined that there were indeed glitches, we will implement appropriate remedial measures promptly, as we do in the case of the examinations themselves.” It avowed