The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has begun the rescheduling of the 379,997 affected candidates for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The rescheduling began on Thursday morning after the registrar of the examination body, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made it known in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to The PUNCH, Oloyede admitted that errors in the recently concluded exam affected 206,610 candidates across 65 centres in Lagos and 92 centres in the Owerri zone, comprising 173,387 candidates from the five states of the Southeast.
He also said, “The affected candidates will start getting text messages for reschedule starting from tomorrow.
“I apologise, I take full responsibility.”
However, in the reprinted exam slip sighted by our correspondent, one of the affected candidates has been rescheduled to take her exam on Saturday, May 17, 2025 by 12 noon in one of the Lagos centres in Igando community situated at the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state.