The House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education and Examination Bodies has clarified that the issue with the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results was caused by human error, not a technical failure.
At a press conference on Tuesday, the committee’s chairman, Oboku Oforji, revealed that preliminary findings indicated the discrepancies, which affected over 300,000 candidates, were due to human error.
Papers News reports that the issue came to light when the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, addressed the press on May 14, 2025, and admitted that the board had made errors in the released results of some candidates.