The 2025 JAMB has been controversial since the release of the 2025 JAMB results two weeks ago.
The experts, public, lawmakers, and families have expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome of the 2025 Jamb exams, which has put some candidates and families in a bad mood.
According to Jamb, 1.9 million candidates registered for this exam. Of those 1.9 million, almost 85% scored below 200 marks, that is 1.5 million failed, but many candidates cried out, saying that was not their result, and rejected it.
But after the candidates had protested about the outcome of the result, JAMB registrar Professor Ishaq Oloyede admitted that there was a glitch at the backend, and he apologized and took full responsibility for the error.
Moreover, about 379,997 candidates were affected in 5 southeast states, and Lagos state was affected by the errors.
206,210 candidates were affected in 65 centers in Lagos, 173,387 candidates in 92 centers in Owerri zone were affected and JAMB has asked for a resit in 3 days.
One of the challenges about the resit for the affected candidates is that some of these candidates are currently writing the 2025 WACE Examination, the question the parents are asking is, how are they going to prepare in a short period and meet up?
We hope the Jamb resit will not clash with the ongoing May/June 2025 WACE.
Speaking in a video shared by the channel TV from 2:45 to 3:44 minutes.
Honorable Benjamin Kalu, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, is making some suggestions about what happened in the UTME.
He maintains that the technical glitch in the 2025 UTME, which affected about 380,000 candidates in Lagos and the other 3 southeast states, should be looked into.
” Unfortunately, we lost a UTME candidate to suicide, consequentially triggered by the issuing of results of this technical glitch, I call for the following urgent actions.
Number one, a comprehensive review of all reports, Jamb must immediately review all available technical and independent reports, including those from third-party educational technology companies that have gathered candidate-level data to fully understand the scope and implications of the crisis, only by triangulating internal findings.
With external audits, can we ensure that no affected candidate is left behind? ”
The Southeast Caucus of the House of Representatives is now calling for the resignation of Professor Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, over the technical glitch recorded in the 2025 unified tertiary matriculation Examination. UTME.
Speaking from a clip of a video shared by the channel TV from 13:27 to 24:40 minutes.
Some House of Representatives members said that they were restrained from taking a decision or reacting to what Professor Ishaq told Nigerians on the 14th of May.
Hon. IDUMA IGARIWEY, the South East caucus leader, House of Reps.
“ Hon. IDUMA said, we were very restrained in taking a decision, or reacting to what Professor Ishaq told Nigerians on the 14th of May, he admitted to what we have described as a catastrophic institutional failure,
where nearly 400,000 students who took exams in April were asked to come and retake those exams.”
This has never happened in the history of Nigeria, and this came as a shock to Nigerians.
Jamb registrar maintains that it was a technical glitch,
And a committee was set up to oversee it, the chairman said it was human error.
However, anything that caused over 400,000 candidates to resit their exams is a big challenge.
“Hon. IDUMA said that it never happened in the history of this country, and I’m sure it came as a shock to Nigerians.
The Professor said that it was a technical glitch. The chairman of the committee that oversees it said it was human error.
Whatever caused and led nearly 400,000 students to resit their exams is not the issue as far as the Southeast Caucus’s purpose is concerned.”
According to the House of Representatives, it was the response from JAMB that prompted the Rep. members. The registrar told Nigerians what happened, and he was in tears and apologized for it.
but waited to know what Jamb will do to bring a remedy to the situation. The action of Jamb is what prompted the rep to take a stand on the matter.
Jamb came out to tell Nigerians that those candidates will need to go back to the classroom to resit the same exam after 48 hours.
“what was the institutional response from Jamb, that was what concerned us, when he told Nigerians about what happened and was so emotional about it, yes mistakes can happen, but waited to know, what is Jamb going to do to remedy the situation, and what Jamb did, was what prompted us to take a stand on the matter.
Jamb came out the next day to announce that students would have to go back to classrooms after 48 hours to resit those same examinations.
Now, those examinations were conducted on the 16th, and reports started coming out from most parts of the southeast, especially because we are representatives of the southeast.
And if you listen to our press statement, we limited ourselves to what happened in the southeast. We all got reports from our various constituencies, and a lot of students could not make it to the examination hall.
A lot of people could not sit for those exams, those resit exams and that was our major concern.
Jamb cannot just come out after two days, and set another set of exams, you haven’t even told Nigerians that you have corrected whatever led to the initial problem, people are calling for investigation, people are calling for examination of what happened, and then you have set those exams right immediately again and students are unable to have access.
A whole lot of students couldn’t take those exams, so that was at the core of our concern.
We said no, the whole thing has lost its integrity, it has lost its fairness, and people who took the time and prepared for exams are no longer in a position to take those exams.
And what we merely did was to say these exams just must be done the proper way, the right way, that’s why we are saying that the exam has to be canceled, so that the right thing is done.
In the first place, because we believe that JAMB cannot just come out and pepper over an examination and say they have done.”
In the fallout of that exam, do you think that the Southeast was especially afflicted by the pain, and do you think the Southeast has benefited from the horrific situation, or the fallout of that error?
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“According to Hon IGARIWEY, we made it very clear that with no exception, the five states in the southeast, those five states were impacted; the bulk of more than 80% of these nearly 400,000 or 379,000 students, about 80% or 90% are from the southeast.
We are directly affected, but our interest is not just because they are from the southeast; our interest is because they are Nigerians who believe in the Nigerian project.
And if students have prepared to take exams and for one reason or the other the institution saddled with that responsibility fails, and comes out to admit it failure.
What do you do? Do you just wave it, do you just say so be it, or set the same exam within 48 hours and tell students who are already traumatized to go and resit those examinations? “
“This is not a sentimental thing as far as we are concerned, this is an objective situation.
If somebody has come out to admit responsibility for a particular thing, what do you do? Do you just go and continue doing the same thing you had taken responsibility for failing in the first place?
In every other civilized society, Professor Ishaq knows what he should do, and I will be surprised if we are a different species of people, that we cannot be honorable enough to say, I have made a mistake, I take responsibility, what does he mean by I take responsibility for what happened in Jamb. Is it I take responsibility so that I will reset the exam, is it I take responsibility so I can correct myself, nigerians have told him, that it is beyond you to correct yourself, other stakeholders need to look into what happened in the first place.
Okay, they said they were bad servers, how do we know those servers are no longer bad, you have set the exams 48 hours after,
They have told Nigerians that the results will be published within 72 hours. What is the credibility of those results?
How can we deceive ourselves in this country? You have made nearly 400,000 families desperate, very unhappy, and traumatized.
And you have set exams for them within two days, you are bringing out results in 3 days, how can Nigerians have faith in whatever you are turning out as results?
So if we want to address a situation, we should address it structurally.”
“Our position is clear, we make our position very clear, one is that it is not enough to say 400,000 students or 39,379,997 students, you don’t matter in this Nigeria, you can not say that,
If they matter, then give them their due. In this case, what is their due? Their dues is to look for equality in equity; and give them the same opportunity others had, those who did not suffer this, even if it was one student, even if it was a dozen students.
In this case, we have nearly 400,000 students who deserve their due, let natural justice take its course, which is equality, that is why we asked for these exams.
So, what does it take away from JAMB to cancel this exam? Some students are still taking WACE as we speak, and their exams are clashing with the old JAMB examination.
So what do you expect them to do?”
“ Hon. IDUMA maintains that we have walked away and cautioned ourselves not to bother about conspiracy theories.
We are concerned with the clear facts we have seen before us: nearly half a million students, more than a quarter of a million students had their results tainted, and then you wake up and admit, yes, these results are tainted.
They’re not what they are supposed to be, and then 24 hours after, they haven’t even recovered from the shock of whether the exam they took in April was APRIL FOOL.
They haven’t even recovered from it, you say that you are setting another exam for them, they don’t have sufficient notice to prepare for this exam, you go and set it, and now within 72 hours, you are bringing out fresh results.
But what magic could you have done?
it’s not a matter of whether the majority of the students came from the southeast, these students are Nigerian students,
what we speak on behalf of students from the southeast applies to others who may be in the southwest or wherever they are, who are equally undergoing the same kind of situation, we are saying even if it is 10 students,
even if it is 20.
But in this case more than a quarter of a million and, you say you won’t cancel that examination, you just come and demonstrate before Nigerians and say I am sorry, then you believe that ends it, is insufficient, the remediation from jamb is grossly insufficient, grossly unaccepted and does not go to solving the problem.
That’s why we are saying that the exams should be canceled, and fresh ones set so that everybody is at equal key. Let people go and take these exams, let them study, they still have time.
Some stakeholders in the education sector are even suggesting that these exams should come after Wace, and Neco, sometime in August, you still have September before admissions, so what’s the hurry in doing this thing now when we have seen that the atmosphere is simply not conducive.”