Nigeria, May 21 -- Candidates who registered but missed the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will have another opportunity to sit the examination.

JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, a professor, disclosed on Wednesday that the board would conduct a mop-up examination for candidates who missed either the UTME in April or the rescheduled UTME in May.

Mr Oloyede said almost five per cent - about 19,000 candidates - of the 379,997 candidates expected to sit the rescheduled UTME were absent.

JAMB had initially disclosed that 71,701 candidates were absent when the UTME was conducted.

This means about 90,000 candidates would have a second opportunity to sit the UTME.

"We are creating a new mop-up. Even those who missed th...