The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reactivated the portal for uploading the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results for candidates who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The announcement was made through JAMB’s official X account on Tuesday, August 20, 2025. The board urged candidates to visit accredited Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres to complete the process, stressing that the use of authorized centres would help prevent errors and curb fraudulent practices.
The upload of O’level results is a compulsory requirement for securing admission into Nigerian universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education. JAMB relies on the uploaded WAEC or NECO results to verify candidates’ academic standing before forwarding admission lists to institutions. Candidates who fail to upload their results risk being excluded from admission processes, regardless of their UTME scores.
The reactivation follows the temporary suspension of the upload portal on August 14. JAMB had shut down the system to resolve technical issues after the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) revised its initial release of the 2025 WASSCE results. The closure ensured that only accurate and updated results reflected in JAMB’s admission database.
The suspension affected candidates seeking admission for the 2024/2025 academic session, especially those who had uploaded results from WAEC’s earlier release. They were required to wait until the portal reopened before re-uploading their details.
The incident formed part of a wider disruption within Nigeria’s examination bodies in 2025. WAEC, NECO, and JAMB all experienced downtimes. NECO shut down its platforms nationwide for scheduled maintenance after unplanned system failures disrupted registrations, result verification, and delayed some international applications.
WAEC itself faced a major setback earlier in August when it reviewed the 2025 WASSCE results following a grading error. The initial release on August 4 showed that only 38.32 percent of candidates obtained at least five credits, including English and Mathematics, triggering concern over a sharp decline compared to previous years.
After an internal review, WAEC corrected the figures, raising the pass rate to 62.96 percent. The error, traced to a wrong serialised code file, had affected grading in Mathematics, English, Biology, and Economics. In the corrected data, 1,239,884 candidates secured at least five credits including English and Mathematics, while 91.14 percent obtained credits in five subjects with or without the two compulsory subjects.
However, 191,053 results remain withheld due to allegations of malpractice.
