The long queues, network failures, misplaced documents, and manual entry errors that have long defined O’Level result uploads at CBT centres are exactly what JAMB’s newest system is built to eliminate. The Board announced that candidates can now upload and verify their Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination results directly from home, without needing to visit a Computer-Based Test centre at all, starting with results issued by the West African Examinations Council.
The system works by connecting JAMB’s e-Facility platform directly to examination bodies, allowing candidates’ results to be checked against the issuing organization’s own records before being pulled into their JAMB profile. That direct verification step is what JAMB says will cut down on fraudulent, unverified, or incorrectly entered results, a problem that manual uploads at crowded CBT centres have made harder to catch consistently.
The process itself starts online, at buyresultsverificationcode.ng, where candidates enter their National Identification Number and click “Verify NIN.” From there, they select how many examination sittings they’re verifying and which examination body applies, provide an email address and phone number, and proceed to payment, which can be made by debit card or bank transfer. After payment, candidates enter their examination number, series, and year, triggering the actual verification and generating a Verification Code tied to their result.
That code then has to be activated by text message, sending “VERIFY” along with the code to either 55019 or 66019, after which JAMB uploads the result and sends a confirmation notification. Candidates verifying two examination sittings have an additional step: logging into their e-Facility profile, selecting “2026 UTME O’Level Upload,” and entering their code to view both verified results side by side. From there, they choose their final subject list, a minimum of five and maximum of nine, with no subject selected more than once, before submitting for final confirmation.
JAMB described the system as particularly useful during peak periods, when CBT centres see the heaviest traffic and candidates are most likely to run into network problems that can stall or corrupt an upload entirely. Beyond convenience, the Board said the direct verification process strengthens the integrity of the admissions pipeline overall, since results now pass through the issuing examination body before ever reaching a candidate’s profile.
The initiative is part of a broader push under JAMB’s sixth Registrar, Professor Segun Aina, to make the Board more technology-driven and centered on reducing friction for candidates. According to the statement, signed by Acting Director of Public Affairs and Protocol Fabian Benjamin, JAMB intends to keep expanding its use of technology and its collaboration with examination and government bodies to simplify services further going forward.
