UTME 2025: Candidates for resit to get text messages from today

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Candidates set to retake the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will start receiving SMS notifications beginning today (Thursday).

A total of no fewer than 379,997 candidates from the five South-East states and Lagos are expected to be part of the rescheduled exam.

This development was confirmed by JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, during a media briefing held in Abuja on Wednesday.

“206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos and 92 centres in Owerri zone comprising of 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East were affected,” he said.

Oloyede also took responsibility for what he claimed was a “sabotage” of the 2025 UTME.

“The affected candidates will start getting text messages for reschedule starting from tomorrow.

“I apologise, I take full responsibility,” he said.

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Out of the 1.9 million candidates who sat for the examinations, over 1.5 million scored below 200 out of the maximum 400 marks.

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