The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions for the 2025 academic session to re-upload their West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC SSCE) results.
The order affects those who had earlier uploaded their O’level results before the release of the final 2025 WAEC results.
The Board explained that all such records had been cleared from its system to avoid discrepancies and to ensure that only authentic results are considered during admission processing.
In its weekly bulletin released on Monday in Abuja, JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, noted that many candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) with “awaiting results” had uploaded incomplete or unofficial WAEC records.
He said this development created inconsistencies in the system, prompting the board to mandate a fresh upload for all candidates, whether or not their final results differ from those submitted earlier.
The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, reaffirmed the decision as a necessary step to safeguard the integrity of the admission process. According to him, candidates must urgently revisit accredited centres to re-upload their results if they wish to remain eligible for admission consideration.
This latest directive is consistent with JAMB’s history of tightening measures around result verification and admission procedures.
In July 2025, the board disclosed that it had screened the results of more than 6,400 UTME candidates following suspicions of “high-tech cheating,” underlining the growing sophistication of malpractice in the system.
Similar re-upload exercises have been carried out in previous admission cycles, including 2023 and 2024, when candidates were asked to update their O’level results on the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) after cases of incomplete or falsified uploads came to light.
As universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education across the country prepare to open their admission windows, the new directive carries serious implications. Candidates who fail to comply risk being excluded from the selection process, regardless of their UTME scores.
JAMB has frequently come under public scrutiny for its tough policies, with some lawmakers and student groups criticising what they describe as excessive rigidity. However, the board has consistently defended its actions, maintaining that the credibility of Nigeria’s tertiary education admissions must not be compromised.
