Breaking: Foremost Nigerian exam body JAMB speaks on its registrar resigning (Exclusive)

Legit.ng writer Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has implicit 9 years of acquisition covering education successful Nigeria and worldwide.

FCT, Abuja - The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) connected Thursday, May 15, dismissed speculations astir the purported imminent resignation of its registrar, Ishaq Oloyede.

Legit.ng reports that determination are beardown speculations the JAMB helmsman has concluded plans to discontinue his relation owed to the pugnacious events of the past fewer days.

JAMB says its registrar not resigning implicit the ongoing contention surrounding the UTME 2025 results. Photo credit: Oyetunde Oluwatobiloba
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Recall the results from JAMB’s 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) were released connected Friday, May 9. An investigation indicated that much than 78 percent of candidates scored little than 200 points retired of the 400 maximum obtainable points.

This spurred protests that questioned the wide integrity of the introspection process.

On Wednesday, May 14, Oloyede, a professor, admitted that mistakes successful the UTME 2025 made by 1 of JAMB’s work providers led to distorted results for astir 380,000 candidates successful 157 centres crossed the Lagos and Owerri, Imo state portion (which includes the south-east states.

'Oloyede not readying to quit' - JAMB

On Thursday afternoon, May 15, speculations started, particularly connected X (formerly Twitter), that Professor Oloyede volition taxable his resignation—opting for an honourable way amid beardown criticisms from a conception of the Nigerian nationalist and calls for his departure.

When contacted connected Thursday evening, May 15, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB spokesperson, exclusively told Legit.ng that the rumour astir Oloyede quitting was false.

He told Legit.ng in a terse message:

Before serving arsenic JAMB registrar, Oloyede was the vice-chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN). In 2016, Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian president astatine the time, appointed him arsenic the registrar of JAMB, an appointment, personally described arsenic "divine" by him. His assignment was greeted by applause from respective quarters of the Nigerian society.

Since helium assumed office, Oloyede has been praised for transforming JAMB into a notation constituent successful effectual nationalist work delivery, transparency, and accountability successful Nigeria.

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