The spokesperson for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Fabian Benjamin, has said the board withheld results of some candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for belonging to a Whatsapp group.

Speaking during an X Spaces chat, Benjamin said the group was formed for members to pay money to have their UTME results inflated.

He made this known in response to a question from a candidate who wondered why his result was withheld by JAMB.

Benjamin said, “He belongs to a category of candidates that we discovered were in a Whatsapp group where someone was soliciting for payment, that if you pay certain amount, your score will be inflated. So, we went into that group, and all candidates that paid money or patronized that group, we harvested their registration number and withheld their results.

“The essence is that if we are bringing up credible Nigerians, whoever patronises fraud and wants to inflate his score… It’s not possible to even inflate scores. The fact that you are there and thinking of that is also a crime. That is why their results were not released.”