2025 JAMB Results: Family of Girl Who Died over Low UTME Score Breaks Silence, Shares Final Moments

NANS Demands JAMB Registrar Oloyede’s Resignation Over UTME Errors, Cites Student Suicide

ABUJA, Nigeria — The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called for the immediate resignation of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, following the examination body’s admission that widespread technical errors marred the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). In a statement issued on Thursday, May 15, 2025, and signed by its National Public Relations Officer,…

2025 JAMB results: Family of girl who died over low UTME score breaks silence, shares final moments

The family of Faith Opesusi, a 19-year-old UTME candidate, took her own life after receiving a low score has opened up on the incident and her final moments.

Father of late student who scored low in UTME recounts final moment

GistReel Mr. Opesusi Oluwafemi, the grieving father of Faith Opesusi Timileyin, the 19-year-old who tragically passed away after receiving a low UTME score, has revealed his daughter’s last moment. Faith, who had aspirations of studying Microbiology at the university, reportedly ended her life after scoring 146 in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Speaking to BBC Pidgin on Thursday, Mr. Opesusi said his daughter was dee…

UTME Error: What I’ll Do If I Were Tinubu – Ezekwesili

Former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili has criticised the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) over the error that affected the 2025 UTME results. Recall that JAMB Registrar Ishaq Oloyede, during a press conference, apologised for errors in UTME results and announced that affected students would retake the exams. Ezekwesili, in a post shared on the X platform on Thursday, asked why JAMB did not address earlier complaints with hum…

Ezekwesili: JAMB yet to provide evidence of how south-east was most affected by glitch

Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of education, says the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the education ministry were anecdotal in their explanation of the unusual Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result.   The results from JAMB’s 2025 UTME were released on May 9.   An analysis indicated that more than 78 percent of candidates scored less than 200 points out of the 400 maximum obtainable points.   This spurred p…