A review of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) bulletin detailing financial expenses has shown that a total of N535.2million was spent on supervision of the examinations and supply/installation of servers.
Also the supervision of the UTME examination cost in total N291million.
The bulletin for between April 26 and May 2, 2025, shows that N244.3 million was spent on supervision of examination (2025 UTME).
Further review shows that for the bulletin meant to cover financial outflows for between May 3rd and May 9th, another N46.7 million was released for “supervision of the 2025 UTME.”
This would mean in total, supervision of the examination cost N291million.
Further review show that the bulletin for financial outflows between April 26th and May 2nd shows that N244.2 million spent on the “supply and installation of servers.”
In total N535.2 million was spent on supervision of the examinations and supply/installation of servers.
This revelation comes amid growing controversy over the conduct of the examination, which has resulted in about 400,000 students expected to retake it.
Earlier, SaharaReporters
JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, acknowledging that errors during the initial examination negatively affected the performance of some candidates.
Oloyede revealed that affected candidates will be sent messages with details of the rescheduled examination slated for this weekend.
The registrar, moved to tears, issued an apology and said he takes full responsibility for the lapses recorded in the examination.
He said, “After the mock examinations this year, we reviewed our LAG (which includes South West and South East states as earlier indicated) and KAD examination engines. We realised that in the LAG category, options to the items of our examinations were not shuffled. We insisted that the shuffling must be effected.”
“After this was done, we tested the update as usual and we were satisfied. We thereafter still did what we call dummy, a simulation, a day before the examinations and everything seemed to be okay. In other words, we believed we were ready to deploy the items after some layers of testing the processes.”
The decision to allow rewriting of examinations came after intense pressure on JAMB by Nigerians and various stakeholders.
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that JAMB received a formal request from a law firm, John Nwobodo & Associates, demanding the release of the 2025 UTME questions and answers for over 1.5 million candidates who scored below 200.
This followed concerns over the examination’s unprecedented failure rate, which saw more than 70% of candidates scoring below the 200 pass mark.
The law firm, which said it was representing 1,534,654 candidates, raised the alarm about potential discrepancies in the results, suggesting a possible malfunction in JAMB’s software.
