In preparation for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been ordered to distribute 300 scores to all South-East candidates by the youth wing of the Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide.
Ohanaeze criticized JAMB’s intention to administer a new test to anyone affected by what it called unacceptable flaws in the recently released 2025 UTME results.
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB Registrar, was said to have admitted on Wednesday, May 14, that errors were a factor in the poor scores of applicants from Lagos State and the five South-East states.
As a result, the Board declared that plans were in motion to reschedule the test for the impacted candidates.
Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, however, told the media in a statement on Thursday, May 15, that this arrangement was completely unacceptable.
According to Okwu, JAMB should not have put the applicants through “another round of mental torture, stress, and risk” because of uncontrollable conditions.
Given that JAMB has already tortured our people’s minds, we want to make it clear that they will not tolerate any more exams.
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“The candidates have been subjected to mental torment ever since the phony results were revealed, therefore they are not in the right state of mind to take another test.
Besides, who will pay for it? The same parents who are struggling financially?
“What is the danger of relocating to the exam sites in a nation plagued by insecurity?” “What?” asked Ohanaeze.
“Having said this, we demand that JAMB distribute a 300 score to all the South-East candidates affected by its own error, not the candidates’,” Nnabuike added. Being extremely intelligent, Igbos may have earned $300 or more.
“It was obviously intended to punish the people of the South-East by denying them access to education.”
“The Registrar’s crocodile tears won’t save the Board if JAMB disregards our request; we won’t think twice about dragging them to court.”
