The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has confirmed it is withholding the results of certain candidates who took part in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) due to their involvement in a WhatsApp group linked to exam malpractice.
Speaking during an X Spaces session, JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed that the board discovered the existence of a WhatsApp group created for the purpose of soliciting money in exchange for inflated UTME scores.
Benjamin explained the situation in response to a candidate who queried why his UTME result had not been released.
“He belongs to a category of candidates that we discovered were in a WhatsApp group where someone was soliciting for payment, that if you pay certain amount, your score will be inflated,” he said.
“So, we went into that group, and all candidates that paid money or patronized that group, we harvested their registration number and withheld their results.”
According to him, the board’s decision was rooted in its commitment to promoting integrity in the education system.
“The essence is that if we are bringing up credible Nigerians, whoever patronises fraud and wants to inflate his score… It’s not possible to even inflate scores.”
“The fact that you are there and thinking of that is also a crime. That is why their results were not released,” Benjamin added.
