The Registrar of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has been urged to resign over death of a student and incompetence in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
This call came from an education development campaigner, John Williams and after public outcry over the suicide of one students and the emotional trauma faced by over 170,000 students who failed the 2025 the Joint Admission Matriculation Board Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) exam due to technical glitches.
The Earlier data released by JAMB showed that out of the 1.9 million (1,955,069) available results, only 12,414 candidates — or 0.63 per cent — scored above 300 points. It was further revealed that only 22 per cent, representing 420,415 candidates, scored above 200 out of the 400 possible marks. About 78 per cent of the candidates failed the examination as they scored below 200.
JAMB had initially defended the poor results, insisting the results reflected the candidates’ “true academic abilities” and denying any wrongdoing.
Students committed suicide for low score.
A 19-year-old Timilehin Faith Opesusi committed suicide for scoring a low mark of 190.
According to The Guardian, Opesusi ingested rodent poison on Monday. One of her close allies told reporters that she lamented her poor results before taking the poison.
Neighbours became alarmed when Opesusi asked for palm oil at her sister’s office to relieve the pain caused by something she had ingested at home.
On the way to the hospital, Opesusi reportedly confessed to taking poison before proceeding to her sister’s office. Tragically, she passed away in the hospital.
Opesusi received a provisional admission notification via her Gmail account just thirty minutes after her death. She has since been taken to Abeokuta for burial by her parents.
Although, JAMB had now realised their mistakes and calling for the resit of the exam for those who failed but Williams believe that it’s too late too little.
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