Candidates who have been scheduled to resit the 2025 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination, UTME, will begin getting text messages from today (Thursday).

In total, at least 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South East and Lagos are expected to participate.

This was confirmed by the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, during a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.

“206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos and 92 centres in Owerri zone comprising of 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East were affected,” he said.

Oloyede also took responsibility for what he claimed was a “sabotage” of the 2025 UTME.

“The affected candidates will start getting text messages to reschedule starting from tomorrow.

“I apologise, I take full responsibility,” he said.

Out of the 1.9 million candidates who sat for the examinations, over 1.5 million scored below 200 out of the maximum 400 marks.