The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that 2,243,816 candidates were successfully registered in the recently concluded 2026 UTME registration. The number of registered candidates in each state is now available.

Meanwhile, candidates are to note that the JAMB exam comes up on April 16th, 2026. To prepare, candidates can practice with over 60,000 JAMB past questions and answers.

Number of Registered Candidates for 2026 UTME in Each State Abia – 44,394 Adamawa – 31,321 Akwa Ibom – 47,079 Anambra – 34,787 Bauchi – 27,963 Bayelsa – 27,245 Benue – 60,860 Borno – 33,483 Cross River – 34,605 Delta – 77,670 Ebonyi – 19,662 Edo – 59,605 Ekiti – 31,643 Enugu – 50,305 FCT (Abuja) – 302,963 Gombe – 23,012 Imo – 42,170 Jigawa – 28,166 Kaduna – 303,498 Kano – 83,167 Katsina – 37,973 Kebbi – 36,533 Kogi – 46,783 Kwara – 64,988 Lagos – 321,814 Nasarawa – 65,739 Niger – 47,679 Ogun – 137,156 Ondo – 66,270 Osun – 64,894 Oyo – 122,662 Plateau – 62,440 Rivers – 105,584 Sokoto – 20,243 Taraba – 38,093 Yobe – 20,583 Zamfara – 14,841

JAMB also recorded UTME registrations from foreign countries as shown below; Burkina Faso - 14 Cameroon - 11 Cote D'Ivoire - 32 Equatorial Guinea - 16 Gambia - 3 Ghana - 5 Republic of Benin - 7 Saudi Arabia - 10 South Africa - 5 United Kingdom - 12

Earlier, the Registrar of JAMB, Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed that the Board uncovered syndicates using AI-generated fake images and videos of senior officials to defraud candidates. He revealed that with the approval of the Minister of Education, the Board would delete no fewer than 100 UTME registrations of candidates found to have solicited score inflation through the syndicate. According to the Registrar, investigations showed over 120 candidates had already paid the fraud network, which operated under the guise of an online platform promising direct system package and VIP assistance.