Ngerians Reacts As JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede Bursts Into Tears Over Errors In 2025 UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has admitted that technical errors negatively affected the performance of many students in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, got emotional on Wednesday while speaking at a press briefing in Abuja, saying the board takes full responsibility for what happened.

Holding back tears, Oloyede apologised to the affected candidates and described the incident as a major setback.

“Once again, we apologise and assure you that this incident represents a significant setback…. We remain committed to emerging stronger in our core values of transparency, fairness and equity.

“It is our culture to admit errors because we know that in spite of the best of our efforts, we are human; we are not perfect,” Oloyede said as he wiped tears off his eyes with a white handkerchief.

Oloyede also revealed that about 379,997 students who wrote the 2025 UTME in the South-East will have to retake the exam.

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This decision comes after numerous complaints from students and parents about poor scores, technical problems, and irregularities in the exam questions and answers.

In a post shared on JAMB’s official X (formerly Twitter) handle, the board confirmed that 157 out of the 887 exam centres experienced a technical glitch.

According to the board, this was the main reason for the low performance recorded in those centres.

“Man Proposes, God Disposes! It has been established that a technical glitch affected 157 centres out of the 887 centres in the 2025 UTME. This was basically responsible for the general low performance of the candidates scheduled to sit the examination in those centres.

“As such, all the affected candidates will be contacted to reprint their examination slips towards retaking their examinations starting from 16th May, 2025,” the post reads.

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See some reactions below:

KanyiDaily recalls that some frustrated parents recently gathered outside the JAMB office, protesting over unfairly low UTME scores for their children.

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