The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced April 24, 2025, as the new date for the commencement of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) across Nigeria.
Originally scheduled to begin on Friday, April 25, the examination was moved forward by a day due to what the Board described as “essential commitments by the Board and its partner agencies.”
The update was made known in an official statement signed by Fabian Benjamin, Ph.D., Public Communication Advisor to JAMB, on Saturday, April 19.
As part of preparations, JAMB has opened its portal for candidates to print their Examination Notification Slips
The Notification Slips contain vital information including:
How to print your UTME slip
The Board advised all candidates to print their slips and “familiarise themselves with the location of their centres before the date of the examination.”
This is to help ease any last-minute confusion or delays on the exam day.
JAMB reiterated a strict policy regarding examination locations, warning candidates not to appear at any centre outside their officially assigned venue or town.
According to the Board, each candidate will be assigned to a centre strictly within the examination town they selected during registration.
Any attempt to sit for the UTME outside this assigned town will not be permitted under any circumstances.
“Please note that candidates will be assigned to centres within their chosen examination towns; no candidate will be placed in a centre outside their selected town,” they stated.
The examination board recently launched decoy websites designed to trap individuals seeking to cheat.