The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the results of the 2025 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted on Thursday, April 10.

JAMB disclosed this in a statement on Sunday by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, noting that candidates can check their results by sending “MOCKRESULT” via SMS to either 55019 or 66019 using the phone number they registered with for the examination.

According to the board, the mock UTME is optional and aims to test its yearly innovations while also giving candidates an opportunity to experience the computer-based test environment ahead of the main examination.

The statement read, “A total of 200,115 candidates initially expressed interest in participating; however, two candidates later withdrew, resulting in 200,113 registered candidates.

“Of those registered, 73,844 candidates were absent on the day of the examination, and 88 candidates failed the biometric verification screening.

“Consequently, 126,181 candidates successfully sat for the examination, and results for 115,735 of these candidates are now available for viewing. Additionally, 10,446 results are still being processed and will be released soon.”

JAMB also acknowledged delays faced by some candidates during the mock exam and expressed regret over the inconvenience.

It explained that the disruptions were due to new features introduced to improve the upcoming main UTME.

The board urged candidates to continue supporting its efforts, adding that the mock exam remains a key part of its strategy to enhance the UTME process and better prepare candidates.

“The mock examination serves as a trial version of the UTME, allowing the Board to test new innovations while helping candidates familiarise themselves with the CBT environment.

“Over the years, this initiative has successfully achieved its objectives, addressing noted lapses and equipping candidates with valuable experience for the main examination,” the statement added.

By Francesca Hangeior

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said the body has deployed a decoy website to apprehend candidates seeking to cheat in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination Mock examination.

Oloyede disclosed this to reporters on Thursday while monitoring the exercise at a CBT centre in Bwari, Abuja, the nation’s capital.

He expressed concerns that some candidates patronise rogue websites to cheat in the exam, adding that JAMB has also opened a decoy website targeting such individuals.

Oloyede said, “We need to let the students know that the best way to pass the examination, UTME in particular, is to study. We are aware of some rogue websites asking people to come and pay so that they can help. It cannot work. We have also opened our own rogue website. As of this morning, about 180 students have paid.

“So those students, because to attempt to cheat is already an infraction. So those who paid into that account, looking for questions, we are going to deal firmly with them.

“In many of the institutions, UTME is not a school-based examination. We register students individually. That is why we tell the students not to give out their registration numbers. Do not register by proxy.

“Do not give your registration number to anybody. Because some of these schools want to be able to brag that, oh, my 10 students from my school scored 280. There was a state where even the governor of a state was misinformed, and they were celebrating nothing. So this type of thing that people want to cut corners, we are abreast of all this. And we are doing everything possible (to stop it).

“We have about 180 of them. And we are going to deal with them firmly. We are going to cancel their results, both UTME and DE.”

Oloyede also advised candidates to steer clear of fraudulent websites and individuals claiming to offer assistance during the examination.

“Some of them are paying N30,000 for something that will never work. And to some, when I look at those who have paid us this money, I smile,” he added.

By Francesca Hangeior

The Western Zone of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities on has rejected the resolution of the Governing Council of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, which absolved the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, of sexual harassment.

The Governing Council absolved Fasina of allegations of sexual harassment.

The Registrar and Secretary to the council, Mufutau Ibrahim, said the council took the decision at its 8th Extraordinary Meeting held on Tuesday.

In a statement issued by the National Vice President of SSANU Western Zone, Dr Abdussobur Salaam, and made available to PUNCH Online, the union faulted the institutuion council’s resolution, saying the governing council was not being fair and just on the matter.

According to the statement, one of the wrongs of the process was the continued stay in the office of the vice chancellor during the pendency of the investigation into the matter.

It said that had compromised the fairness of the process.

The statement read,” The governing council acknowledged the existence of audio recordings between the vice-chancellor and Engineer Folashade Adebayo gladdens our hearts.

“While we note that the governing council admitted that the recordings were not subjected to any forensic evaluation, we are taken aback that rather than focus on the contents of the recordings, the governing council attempted to gaslight the public by querying why the recordings were made and concluding it was for the purpose of blackmail.

“We find it further shameful that the council did not query the spate of queries that followed the rejection of the offer by Professor Fashina in his bid to intimidate Engineer Folashade Adebayo into submission.

“We are also further disappointed that the Governing Council did not see anything wrong in a conversation where the Vice-Chancellor compromised and impugned other principal officers of the university, especially the Registrar and Bursar, in a bid to sweet-talk Engineer Folashade Adebayo to accept his advances.

“To further claim that Engineer Folashade Adebayo never made any complaint of sexual harassment against Professor Abayomi Fasina is a barefaced and brazen lie.

“Consequently, and in view of the compromised decisions of the governing council on this issue, the Western Zone of SSANU rejects in totality, the various sanctions meted out to Engineer Folashade Adebayo for allegedly bringing the name of the institution into disrepute.”

To this end, the SSANU called on the Nigeria Labour Congress and other stakeholders in the protection of the rights of Nigerians to wade into the matter, which, according to it, “has the potential of becoming a cause of national industrial unrest in our university system.”

“We have begun mobilisation of all 26 universities in the Western Zone of SSANU for a possible industrial action, and we shall not stop until our demands are met,” the statement added.