The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), in collaboration with the representatives of the chosen universities of the underage candidates who sat the 2025 UTME, has adjusted the final date for their scheduled assessment.
It is worthy of note that NECO has released its SSCE 2025 results on Wednesday, 17th September,2025, the Board has noted with concern that at the close of the submission date for the screening scores, which was 15th September, 2025, 23 out of the 71 universities chosen by the candidates are yet to submit the Post-UTME screening scores of these candidates as agreed. The universities are as listed in the table below:
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, LAGOS STATE
39 candidates
NILE UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, ABUJA, FCT
18 candidates
NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA, ANAMBRA STATE
15 candidates
UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA, GWAGWALADA, ABUJA, FCT
12 candidates
UNIVERSITY OF UYO, AKWA IBOM STATE
9 candidates
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OWERRI, IMO STATE
8 candidates
DAVID UMAHI FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, UBURU, EBONYI STATE
6 candidate
UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE
6 candidates
LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, OJO, LAGOS STATE
5 candidates
BINGHAM UNIVERSITY, KARU, NASARAWA STATE
3 candidates
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY, LOKOJA, KOGI STATE
2 candidates
LEAD CITY UNIVERSITY, IBADAN, OYO STATE
2 candidates
McPHERSON UNIVERSITY, SERIKI SOTAYO, OGUN STATE
2 candidates
ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY, UTURU, ABIA STATE
1 candidate
BAYELSA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, YENAGOA, BAYELSA STATE
1 candidate
CLARETIAN UNIVERSITY, NEKEDE, IMO STATE
1 candidate
DENNIS OSADEBAY UNIVERSITY, ASABA, DELTA STATE
1 candidate
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, IKOT-ABASI, AKWA IBOM STATE
1 candidate
MICHAEL OKPARA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, UMUDIKE, ABIA STATE
1 candidate
MODIBBO ADAMA UNIVERSITY, YOLA, ADAMAWA STATE
1 candidate
RHEMA UNIVERSITY, ABA, ABIA STATE
1 candidate
TOTAL NUMBER OF CANDIDATES
135
By this press release and emails sent to these defaulting universities, they are urged to submit their screening scores without further delay.
Furthermore, the Board wishes to remind all public universities to submit their recommended candidates on CAPS on or before Tuesday, 30th September 2025, while all private universities are to submit their recommendations on or before Friday, 31st October 2025.
This is to ensure that the deadlines of 30th October 2025, for public universities, and 31st November 2025, for private universities are achieved.
These dates are sacrosanct as decided at the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions under the chairmanship of Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa, CON, the Honourable Minister of Education.
