Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all candidates who uploaded their O’Level results before the release of the final 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC SSCE) results to revisit accredited centres and re-upload their results.
The examination body explained that all previously uploaded results had been cleared from its system to prevent discrepancies and ensure that only the official WAEC final results were used for admission processing.
In its weekly news bulletin released yesterday and seen by The Guardian, JAMB noted that “some candidates, who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) with ‘awaiting results’ had prematurely uploaded incomplete WAEC records before the final release.
“To address the issue, JAMB has mandated a fresh upload for every candidate, irrespective of whether the new results differ from those uploaded earlier.
“All UTME candidates are advised to urgently re-upload their 2025 SSCE results on the JAMB portal to remain eligible for admission consideration”.
JAMB also issued a warning to higher institutions that violated admission guidelines, describing their actions as an “aberration” and demanding full compliance within seven days.
The institutions, summoned to a meeting with JAMB on August 18, 2025, tendered apologies and pleaded with the board to “temper justice with mercy,” after failing to upload their matriculation lists for admitted candidates despite conducting admissions on the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).
These were also detailed in the agency’s weekly bulletin yesterday.
Oloyede, in condemning the infractions, said, “You conducted admissions on CAPS, but you did not matriculate any student.
“We feel that before we forward the report to the government, we should interact with you.”
Citing Section 23, subsection 7 of the admission guidelines, Oloyede reminded the institutions that every institution was required to submit/upload matriculation lists to the board for analysis before approval is granted for matriculation ceremonies.
He emphasised: “Any candidate whose name is not on the national matriculation list will be considered not to have been admitted by JAMB, and the admission is illegitimate. No such illegal admission will be condoned.”
The registrar warned that violations would attract grave consequences beyond regulatory sanctions.
“Apart from disenfranchising candidates, they could also sue the institutions for violation of their rights,” Oloyede cautioned.”
At the end of the meeting, the institutions resolved to: “Upload all outstanding matriculation lists within seven days from August 18, 2025, and ensure affiliate institutions operate strictly under their parent institutions, supervised by designated officers.”
