JAMB Urges Universities to meet up with the adjusted date as it is very important

By Sadiq Abdulfatah

In its press release Signed by Fabian Benjamin the public communication advisor JAMB, The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in collaboration with university representatives, adjusts final assessment date for under-age candidate who sat for the 2025 UTME.

National Examination Council NECO has released its SSCE 2025 results on Wednesday. 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.

JAMB thereby, urges the defaulting university to submit their screening scores without further delay.

Furthermore, The Board also 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.

JAMB stresses that, this is to ensure that the deadlines of 30th October 2025, for public universities, and 31st November 2025, for private universities are achieved.

According to JAMB, 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.

JAMB is in charge of conducting the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME which students must take to gain admission Into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education