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.
The Board also reminded all public universities to submit their recommended candidates on Central Admissions Processing System
(CAPS) on or before Tuesday, 30th September 2025, while all private universities are to submit their recommendations on or before Friday, 31st October 2025.
Fabian Benjamin, Ph.D, Public Communication Advisor of JAMB said these in a press statement on Thursday, 18th September 2025.
Dr Benjamin added that :
“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:
S/N
INSTITUTION
NO. OF CANDIDATES
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, LAGOS STATE
39
NILE UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, ABUJA, FCT
18
NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA, ANAMBRA STATE
15
UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA, GWAGWALADA, ABUJA, FCT
12
UNIVERSITY OF UYO, AKWA IBOM STATE
9
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OWERRI, IMO STATE
8
DAVID UMAHI FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, UBURU, EBONYI STATE
6
UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE
6
LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, OJO, LAGOS STATE
5
BINGHAM UNIVERSITY, KARU, NASARAWA STATE
3
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY, LOKOJA, KOGI STATE
2
LEAD CITY UNIVERSITY, IBADAN, OYO STATE
2
McPHERSON UNIVERSITY, SERIKI SOTAYO, OGUN STATE
2
ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY, UTURU, ABIA STATE
1
BAYELSA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, YENAGOA, BAYELSA STATE
1
CLARETIAN UNIVERSITY, NEKEDE, IMO STATE
1
DENNIS OSADEBAY UNIVERSITY, ASABA, DELTA STATE
1
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, IKOT-ABASI, AKWA IBOM STATE
1
MICHAEL OKPARA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, UMUDIKE, ABIA STATE
1
MODIBBO ADAMA UNIVERSITY, YOLA, ADAMAWA STATE
1
RHEMA UNIVERSITY, ABA, ABIA STATE
1
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.”