The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withheld the results of several candidates who participated in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) after uncovering their involvement in a WhatsApp group allegedly created to manipulate exam scores.
JAMB’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, revealed this during a conversation on X (formerly Twitter) Spaces, where he responded to inquiries from aggrieved candidates whose results were not released.
According to Benjamin, the candidates in question were part of a WhatsApp group where individuals solicited payments with the promise of inflating UTME scores.
“He belongs to a category of candidates we discovered in a WhatsApp group where someone was asking for payment, claiming they could boost scores.
"We identified all the candidates who paid or engaged with that group, tracked their registration numbers, and withheld their results," Benjamin said.
He emphasized that even the intention to cheat was grounds for sanction: “You don’t even need to succeed at cheating. The mere fact that you considered it or participated in such a group is criminal in itself.”
The move, JAMB says, is part of its ongoing efforts to sanitize the examination system and produce credible and honest students for Nigeria’s higher education institutions.
