Also, the Board has urged faith-based institutions to disclose their status from the outset, saying pretending to be secular to attract applicants and later imposing religious rules is a form of deception.
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The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede disclosed this during an interactive session with state Commissioners for Education, in preparation for the UTME exercise in Lagos.
“This was detailed in a release signed by the Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, and shared on the Board’s official X handle on Tuesday.”
The announcement, made via the official JAMB X handle on Sunday, aims to assist prospective candidates in preparing for the upcoming registration.
Describing the practice as unethical and manipulative, the Board condemned it as a deliberate attempt to distort the merit-based admission process designed to ensure transparency, accountability, and fairness.
The spokesman of the Board, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, announced the development in a statement he issued to newsmen late on Sunday
In a statement by its Public Communication Adviser, Fabian Benjamin, the board said the 85 candidates were adjudged qualified following a meticulous evaluation and have been duly notified to proceed to their respective institutions to complete their admission process and print their individual JAMB admission letters.
This, according to the Board, became necessary after 23 of the 71 universities chosen by the affected candidates failed to submit their Post-UTME screening scores by the initial deadline of September 15, 2025.
JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who inaugurated the 23-member committee in Abuja on Monday, expressed concerns over the rising sophistication in perpetrating exam fraud.
According to a schedule by the board, all private universities are also required to complete admissions by November 30, 2025, while all tertiary institutions in Nigeria, private or public, have until year’s end.
The screening exercise is scheduled to hold from September 22 to 26, 2025 across three centres: the Federal Capital Territory, and Lagos and Imo States.
According to the board, the admissions were conducted outside the popular Central Admission Processing System (CAPS), which aims to enhance transparency and efficiency in the admission process.
Speaking on how the winners emerged, the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, said the board judged the winning institutions by five criteria.
The decision was reached on Tuesday during the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions, held at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja, with stakeholders from various tertiary institutions in attendance.
This came as the government warned that any admission conducted outside of the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) would be illegal and perpetrators would be prosecuted.
Basola and FUTA had complained to JAMB after it described his admission as fake whenever he tried to register for the National Youth Service Corps scheme.
According to a statement issued on Sunday evening by JAMB’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, results have been released for 11,161 candidates who sat for the exam out of the 96,838 candidates scheduled for the mop-up exercise.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday during the monitoring exercise of the rescheduled examination.
In a statement released by JAMB’s Public Communications Adviser, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday, “the Board disclosed that a total of 96,838 candidates would be participating in the mop-up exercise.
The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede disclosed this during a stakeholder meeting on examination infractions in Abuja on Tuesday.