US Edition2025 UTME: JAMB invites expert to investigate mass failure
- On Monday, officials revealed that the 2025 UTME annual system review is being expedited in response to an unusual increase in complaints following the release of last Friday’s exam results.
- This accelerated review responds to over 8,000 formal complaints alleging technical glitches and missing questions that affected candidates’ exam performance.
- JAMB engaged educational and IT experts including university examiners and professional bodies to scrutinize registration, exam conduct, and result release for potential faults.
- Out of the 1.9 million students who took this year’s UTME, more than 1.5 million received scores under 200 out of a possible 400, with JAMB committing to swift corrective measures should any errors be verified.
- JAMB invited education expert Alex Onyia to lead a transparent review expected to publicly share findings and ensure affected students can verify and dispute their results.
35 Articles
35 Articles
2025 UTME: JAMB invites expert to investigate mass failure
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has reportedly invited an education technology expert and the Chief Executive Officer of Educare, Alex Onyia to investigate the 2025 UTME. DAILY POST reports that there were widespread complaints of technical glitches and incomplete questions that reportedly marred the exam. JAMB announced last week that over 1.5 million out of the 1.9 million that sat the 2025 UTME scored below 200 out of the …
UTME 2025: JAMB to review UTME results after widespread protest of low scores
“If it is determined that there were indeed glitches, we will implement appropriate remedial measures promptly, as we do in the case of the examinations themselves,” the board said The post UTME 2025: JAMB to review UTME results after widespread protest of low scores appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
UTME: Educare CEO Reveals How ‘Human Error’ Marred Exam In S/East, Lagos
A report has attributed the technical glitches that led to the unexpectedly poor performance of candidates in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to human error. According to a detailed technical report shared by education advocate and Chief Executive Officer of Educare, Alex Onyia, on Wednesday, the issues stemmed from the failure to apply a system patch uniformly across all server clusters. The patch was necessary to sup…
Technical Glitches: JAMB Apologizes, Reschedules 2025 UTME for Affected Candidates
By Kwin Israel, The Sight News The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has said that 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South East and Lagos would be rescheduled for another Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in a press briefing in Abuja, on Wednesday. Prof. Oloyede who took responsibility for what he described as a “sabotage” of the 2025 UTME sa…
Technical Glitches: JAMB Reschedules UTME For Affected Candidates
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB says the 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South East region in Nigeria and Lagos state affected by technical glitches in it’s recent 2025 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination,(UTME) will be rescheduled for another exam. The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede made this known in a press briefing in Abuja, Nigeria . Oloyede who took responsibility for what he described as …
JAMB admits technical glitches in 2025 UTME results: Registrar weeps, apologises, 379,997 candidates to retake Exams
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is facing an unprecedented credibility crisis after officially admitting to widespread technical failures that marred the conduct of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). At a tense press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, emotionally apologised to the nation, confirming that 379,997 candidates …
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 50% of the sources lean Left, 50% of the sources are Center
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
Ownership
To view ownership data please Upgrade to Vantage
