The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called for the resignation of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, following the admittance by the examination body that the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination was marred with errors.
NANS, in a statement released on Thursday by its National Public Relations Officer, Samson Adeyemi, described the errors as a “damning indictment of the institution’s incompetence.”
The 2025 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME) results recently released by JAMB indicated that over 1.5 million out of 1.9 million candidates who sat for the exam scored below 200.
Following public outcries on the controversial results, Prof Oloyede admitted that the exam body made mistakes that affected the results of over 300,000 candidates.
Oloyede tearfully explained that the problem was caused by ‘technical glitches’ which affected 65 centres in Lagos (206,610 candidates) and 92 centres in the south-east zone (173,387 candidates).
His admission sparked another outcry as many Nigerians criticised JAMB and called on the Federal Government to scrap the exam body.
Reacting to the admittance by the JAMB authority, Adeyemi stressed that the negligence of JAMB has caused untold psychological distress to the affected students while referencing a suicide case involving a student in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State over her UTME score.
He said, “The National Association of Nigerian Students is outraged by the unforgivable negligence of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, which has resulted in widespread despair among Nigerian students and, most tragically, the loss of a promising young life in Lagos.
“JAMB’s admission of errors in the released UTME results, particularly in Lagos and five South East states, is a damning indictment of the institution’s incompetence.
“This catastrophic failure has shattered the dreams of countless students, subjected them to untold psychological distress, and, in this case, driven a young scholar to the ultimate despair.
This is not just an administrative lapse, it is an institutional disgrace.”
NANS therefore demanded that the JAMB boss resign from his position and that compensation should be paid to the family of the deceased student.
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“Prof. Ishaq Oloyede must resign without delay. The leadership that presided over this disaster cannot continue to administer an examination body that holds the future of Nigerian students in its hands.
“JAMB must bear responsibility for the irreversible damage it has caused and provide financial, psychological, and legal support to the grieving family.
“While JAMB has announced a rescheduled UTME for 379,997 students, NANS demands absolute transparency and integrity in this process.
We will not tolerate further incompetence,” Adeyemi stated.
He concluded by urging the federal government to ensure that reforms were made to forestall future occurrences of such errors.
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