About 21,082 candidates who were scheduled to resit the 2025 UTME examination set by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) did not show up at their various centers last week.
This information came out today, May 25, n a statement by the JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, while announcing the release of the results of the resit examination.
According to Dr. Fabian, 21,082 out of the total of 336,845 candidates who were rescheduled for the examination failed to show up for the resit.
He said that no explanation was provided for the high number of absentees.
He said that the rescheduled list included only candidates from affected centres after filtering out sessions that were deemed valid, as well as previously unverified candidates.
