Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that candidates affected by disruptions during the ongoing 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be rescheduled to sit for the exam at a later date.
Gatekeepers News reports that the assurance was given on Friday by JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, during a monitoring exercise by the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education in Abuja.
According to the board, several candidates were unable to take their exams due to technical glitches and delays experienced at some computer-based test (CBT) centres across the country when the exercise commenced.
Benjamin acknowledged the challenges but stressed that such issues are not unusual given the large scale of the examination, which involves over 2 million candidates nationwide. He assured that every registered candidate would be given a fair opportunity to sit for the exam.
He stated that affected candidates would be assigned new dates and possibly different centres. He further explained that even candidates who miss their rescheduled exams would still be accommodated through additional arrangements.
JAMB also revealed that a mop-up examination has been planned to ensure that no candidate is left out due to unforeseen circumstances such as technical failures.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Mohammed Dandutse, acknowledged the operational challenges at some centres and assured that steps would be taken to improve efficiency and prevent candidates from being stranded.
The 2026 UTME began nationwide this week across hundreds of CBT centres, with authorities working to address early technical issues and ensure a smoother process going forward.
