The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says candidates who missed the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) due to disruptions will be rescheduled.
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JAMB’s public communication adviser, Fabian Benjamin, gave the assurance on Friday during the Senate committee’s monitoring of the examination in Abuja.
The board said about 2.2 million candidates are expected to sit the exam across 966 computer-based test centres nationwide.
The clarification comes after complaints of technical glitches and delays at some centres on Thursday, the first day of the examination.
“We are assuring all Nigerians that every candidate who has registered for this exam will be given the opportunity to sit this exam,” Benjamin said.
“If your centre fails today, you will be rescheduled again to take the exam. For any reason, even when you are rescheduled and you are unable to sit the examination, you will be rescheduled again.”
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He added that JAMB has made provisions for a mop-up exercise to accommodate affected candidates.
“That is why when we finish the exam, we have what we call the mop-up… to ensure that candidates whose centres failed and they could not take the exam are given another date,” he said.
Benjamin acknowledged that minor disruptions are expected given the scale of the exercise but stressed that the board is prepared to address them.
Also speaking, Mohammed Dandutse, chairman of the Senate committee on tertiary institutions and TETFund, assured that steps would be taken to improve operations at CBT centres.
“So definitely we are going to address it and we are going to make sure that all the CBT centres are well functional and efficient. Because there is no moral justification for somebody to come from far away and be left stranded without writing the exam,” he said.
Meanwhile, JAMB has said results of those who sat for the exam today will be released before midnight.
“This is to inform all candidates who sat for the 2026 UTME on Thursday, 16th April 2026, that their results will be released today before midnight.
“An official announcement will be made to the public and posted on this page as soon as the results are available,” Fabian stated.
