{"id":69852,"date":"2025-07-07T10:17:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69852"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:17:32","slug":"jamb-releases-mop-up-utme-results-updates-public-on-fake-admission-letter-syndicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/07\/jamb-releases-mop-up-utme-results-updates-public-on-fake-admission-letter-syndicate\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMB Releases Mop-Up UTME Results, Updates Public on Fake Admission Letter Syndicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has released results for the mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), held on June 28.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 96,838 scheduled candidates, 11,161 results have been released.<\/p>\n<p>JAMB, in a statement by its Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, noted that many candidates failed to access their results due to non-compliance with the instruction to text &#8216;UTMERESULT&#8217; to 55019 or 66019 using the same SIM used during registration.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the board gave an update on its investigation into a fake admission letter syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>The five masterminds arrested in 2024 are currently facing trial at the Federal High Court, Abuja, after confessing to producing forged admission letters.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 17,417 candidates were flagged in the scam. Of these, 6,903 were cleared after resolving minor issues, while 10,514 were referred to police.<\/p>\n<p>Among the latter, 5,669 were confirmed to have used fake letters, while 4,832 tried to bypass JAMB\u2019s condonement process through the syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>JAMB urged institutions and candidates to adhere strictly to admission protocols to safeguard the integrity of the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has released results for the mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), held on June 28. Out of 96,838 scheduled candidates, 11,161 results have been released. JAMB, in a statement by its Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, noted that many candidates failed to access their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69854,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69852\/revisions\/69854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}