For the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been asked to distribute 300 scores to all South-East applicants by the youth wing of the Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide.
Ohanaeze criticized JAMB for doing a new test for people affected by what it called unacceptable mistakes in the just released 2025 UTME results.
According to reports, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB Registrar, admitted on Wednesday, May 14, that errors were a factor in the poor test results of applicants from Lagos State and the five South-East states.
The Board thereupon declared that actions were being taken to postpone the test for the impacted applicants.
On Thursday, May 15, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, told the media that this arrangement was completely unacceptable.
Okwu claimed that JAMB was unfairly putting the candidates through “another round of mental torture, stress, and risk” because of uncontrollable conditions.
Our people have already endured mental torment at the hands of JAMB, and we want to make it clear that they will not tolerate any more exams.
After being subjected to mental torture ever since the phony results were revealed, the candidates are not in the proper state of mind to take another test.
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Furthermore, who is going to pay for it? The same folks that are having a lot of financial difficulties?
“What about the danger of relocating to the testing sites in a nation plagued by insecurity?” “Ohanaeze asked.”
With that said, Nnabuike declared, “We demand that JAMB give all the South-East candidates a 300 score that is impacted by its own error, not the candidates’.” Igbos are exceptionally intelligent individuals who may have earned $300 or more.
In order to punish the people of the South-East, it was obviously intended to deny them access to education.
“The Board will not be spared by the Registrar’s crocodile tears if JAMB disregards our request; we will not hesitate to take them to court.”
