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- In a important admission, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has acknowledged that method glitches affected the results of the 2025 UTME of thousands of candidates successful Lagos and the South East states
- JAMB Registrar Prof. Is-haq Oloyede expressed heavy regret and took afloat work for what helium described arsenic avoidable quality errors
- Oloyede noted that the glitch occurred during the automated marking of scripts successful 157 centres — 65 successful Lagos (206,610 candidates) and 92 successful the Owerri portion covering South East states (173,387 candidates)
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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, connected Wednesday, May 14, 2025, addressed wide complaints implicit the 2025 UTME results, admitting that method errors had affected immoderate candidates’ scores.
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At a property league held connected Wednesday, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede expressed heavy regret and took afloat responsibility.
He noted that the glitch occurred during the automated marking of scripts successful 157 centres — 65 successful Lagos (206,610 candidates) and 92 successful the Owerri portion covering South East states (173,387 candidates).
JAMB Registrar disclosed that a faulty bundle spot deployed by 1 of JAMB’s method work providers failed to update definite servers, starring to incomplete oregon inaccurate effect uploads.
He added that affected candidates volition present retake their UTME betwixt Friday, May 16, and Monday, May 19, with JAMB coordinating with WAEC to debar scheduling conflicts. Candidates volition beryllium notified via substance messages, email, and telephone calls.
Prof. Oloyede, stated:
“I instrumentality afloat work for this unfortunate incident. It is not sabotage, but an mistake connected the portion of a work provider. I sincerely apologise to each affected candidates and stakeholders.”
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Below is the afloat substance of his property conference:
MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES
Press Conference Address connected the Complaints astir the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) Results by the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, CON, FNAL, astatine the Boardroom of JAMB National Headquarters, Bwari, Abuja, connected Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
1.0 First of All
Gentlemen of the press, it is with heavy feelings and a precocious consciousness of work that I code you contiguous connected the taxable of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results, which has generated immoderate traction successful nationalist sermon and societal space. I privation to statesman by appreciating you for gathering present today, particularly to the press, whose extended sum has highlighted the merchandise of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results, formally announced connected Friday, 9th May 2025. Similarly, we admit each those who person lent their voices to the strident complaints connected the results we released due to the fact that you each did truthful retired of concern. I admit our critics immensely due to the fact that they could person chosen to beryllium indifferent. I hold with the idiosyncratic who said that the other of emotion isn’t hate, it is indifference; the other of creation is not ugliness, it is indifference; the other of religion is not heresy, it is indifference; and the other of beingness is not death, it is indifference. By not being indifferent to JAMB, we are grateful.
Today marks a infinitesimal we shall not soon hide – a time that should person been filled with solemnisation for what was, until recently, regarded arsenic our astir palmy UTME exercise. Regrettably, this joyousness has been overshadowed by an easy avoidable mistake by 1 oregon 2 persons.
Without equivocation, determination has been a batch of hoopla since the results of 2025 UTME were released past Friday, 9th May 2025. Despite the information that JAMB is simply a responsive organisation, the antithetic level of nationalist concerns and large complaints has prompted america to bash an contiguous audit oregon reappraisal of what happened, which we ordinarily would person done successful June. I privation to marque it wide that our reappraisal and probe uncover that determination are grounds for the complaints astir our 2025 UTME results and this property league is convened with a presumption to unveiling the bitter information of our findings openly and objectively.
We are each quality afterall but earlier immoderate different thing, it is imperative that I shed airy connected the grade that JAMB goes to guarantee prime successful its processes and activities.
2.0 JAMB and Quality Assurance
Gentlemen of the press, prime assurance is cardinal to the operations of JAMB. I can guarantee you that we standard each heights, fathom each depths and traverse each horizons to ascertain that prime assurance mechanisms permeate each our operations from the instrumentality disconnected constituent to the decorativeness line. We pain the midnight lipid and we acceptable our standards high. This is wherefore we person guidelines, checklists and protocol guiding our activities close from the clip of registration to the points of monitoring and supervision to the processing of results.
As we cognize we cannot clap with our sole manus arsenic a azygous entity, we person respective committees successful spot that are portion of our prime assurance system. There are Peace Monitors, of 41 women of substance who are oregon person been Principal Officers of Nigerian universities; we person Chief External Examiners (CEEs), who are Vice-Chancellors, Rectors and Provosts of universities, polytechnics and Colleges of Education. Each authorities besides has Chief Technical Adviser, a reputable prof who is an adept successful computing and cybersecurity. We person Peace Monitors, Civil Society Group, Equal Opportunity Group, the General Monitors Group, High-powered Opinion Leaders, the Roving Group, Technical Advisors Group and the Virtues Vanguards. All of these groups play captious roles and complement our unit successful ensuring prime and troubleshooting challenges.
Furthermore, we besides person an in-house advisor and adept successful bundle improvement and cybersecurity. Besides, we person introduced mock examinations since 2017 arsenic chiefly a prime assurance measurement to trial our systems and intervene wherever indispensable anterior to the clip of our examinations, knowing the quality of technology. Our Technical Officers annually instrumentality tests earlier the palmy ones are deployed to the tract truthful that astatine nary constituent would incompetence acceptable in. All our introspection officials are profiled with their NINs to guarantee ratio and accountability. We besides person a robust squad of in-house physics investigating experts led by a renowned prof of Software Engineering.
We deploy our systems to the usage of high-profile organisations wrong and extracurricular Nigeria arsenic portion of the broader strategy of ensuring that everything works good erstwhile we request it to work. As portion of our preparations for this year, we upgraded our strategy from form-based to the azygous item-based examination, the second of which is the planetary modular now. We simulated this system, streamlined our Autobot and Autotest systems and inactive went up to make our ain JAMBTEST, a bundle innovated in-house by a tiny squad led by ain staff, Dubem. We improved connected the introspection system, simulated everything end-to-end earlier the examinations and we thought everything was perfect. All the layers, including utilizing dummies, were deployed this twelvemonth but contempt that, an mistake happened. It is simply a classical manifestation of the axiom that antheral proposes but God disposes.
3.0 Between KAD and LAG
Let maine disclose portion of however we run successful JAMB for the archetypal clip successful public. Conscious of the fault-lines of Nigeria, we usage 2 operational ‘vehicles’ to traverse Nigeria nether the codification names of KAD and LAG. The KAD conveyance contains the Northern states excluding Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Niger, Kogi and FCT but it includes the six South South states. The LAG vehicle, connected the different hand, consists of Southern states excluding the 6SouthSouth states but it includes Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Niger, Kogi and FCT. These ‘vehicles’ are deployed to service Nigerians arsenic a whole, the South being portion of the North and the North being portion of the South. So, determination is nary chiseled North oregon South.
After the mock examinations this year, we reviewed our LAG (which includes South West and South East states arsenic earlier indicated) and KAD introspection engines. We realised that successful the LAG category, options to the items of our examinations were not shuffled. We insisted that the shuffling indispensable beryllium effected. After this was done, we tested the update arsenic accustomed and we were satisfied. We thereafter inactive did what we telephone dummy, a simulation, a time earlier the examinations and everything seemed to beryllium okay. In different words, we believed we were acceptable to deploy the items aft immoderate layers of investigating the processes.
However, connected the 2nd time of the examinations this year, which was Friday April 25, 2025, we discovered that determination was immoderate omission successful the items wrong the LAG category. An update for correction and grading accommodation was instantly made and it was tested connected Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The update was applied aft 12 a.m. connected Tuesday greeting and it was successful. That was wherefore each the examinations from Tuesday till the extremity of UTME had nary problem. To close and re-upload the responses(i.e. results) from LAG for the pre-Tuesday glitch, the work providers acrophobic with LAG were deployed to effect the spot but determination were spot errors successful immoderate center’s (servers) for the archetypal 3 oregon 4 days successful lone 2 locations. In elemental terms, portion 65 centers (206,610 candidates) were affected successful Lagos portion (comprising lone Lagos state), 92 centers (173,387 candidates) were affected successful Owerri zone, which includes the South East states. In wide terms, successful the process of rectifying the issue, the method unit deployed by the Service Provider for LAG (Lagos and South-East zones) inadvertently failed to update immoderate of the transportation servers. Regrettably, this oversight went undetected anterior to the merchandise of the results.
Recall that past year, we overhauled our reporting system, which made evident what has not caught overmuch nationalist attraction and frankincense sparked important backlash from the Nigerian public. In effect to wide concerns astir what galore referred to arsenic a “failure rate,” we made adjustments this year. Only nonrecreational educators who cognize the quality betwixt accomplishment trial and enactment trial (which UTME ranking trial is) were not concerned, we felt with accommodation made during the preparation, amended show of statistic volition emerge. We were truthful not amazed erstwhile the champion people successful 2025 (374) was the champion highest successful the past 1 and fractional decades arsenic shown below.
List of Best UTME Candidates for the Past Twelve (12)Year
1. 2024
-202440343695GA Olowu Joseph Oluwasijibomi -367
-202440097040EF Alayande David – 367
-202440089418GA Orukpe Joel Ehijele – 367
2. 2023202330325356GA Umeh Kamsiyochukwu Nkechinyere – 360
3. 2022202211075576JA Adebayo Eyimofe Oluwatofunmi – 362
4. 202110054281ID Monwuba Chibuzo Chibuikem – 358
5. 202021398306DF Maduafokwa Egoagwuagwu Agnes – 365
6. 201996630270JC Ezeunala Ekene Franklin – 347
7. 201886034528DA Galadima Israel Zakari – 364
8. 201775902784CB Akingbulugbe Precious Ayomide – 353
9. 201665290500BI Akenbor Adesuwa Osarugue – 359
10. 201665740193BF Anonye Victory Emenike – 359
11. 201555395199EB Ilukwe Lottachukwu Geraldine – 332
12. 201447049891HB Onomejoh Princewill – 299
13. 201337207292AB Olise Israel Chukwunalu – 299
Between Friday and Monday, the uproar could beryllium said to person reached the highest decibel and it was coming from immoderate respected voices successful the society. Though JAMB usually responds to each ailment based connected its merit, the quality of the clam our this clip made america to fast-track the reappraisal process, a post-mortem investigation of the results that we would person done adjacent month. that of past year; yet everything fell wrong the scope of the existing pattern.
COMPARISON OF UTME RESULTS SINCE INCEPTION (2013)
Between Friday and Monday, the uproar could beryllium said to person reached the highest decibel and it was coming from immoderate respected voices successful the society. Though JAMB usually responds to each ailment based connected its merit, the quality of the clamourthis clip made america to fast-track the reappraisal process, a post-mortem investigation of the results that we would person done adjacent month.
4.0 A Meeting of Minds
On the greeting of Monday, May 12 2025, we issued a tentative property connection which includes “… If it is determined that determination were so glitches, we volition instrumentality due remedial measures promptly, arsenic we bash successful the lawsuit of the examinations themselves.” Apart from officials of JAMB and different Government agencies, specified as, Nigeria Education and Research Development Council (NERDC), we besides summoned immoderate experts and professionals who graciously responded to us, including a renowned prof of psychometrics and esteemed adept successful Test and Measurement, who is from Imo state, Prof. Boniface Nworgu; a method advisor and adept from the Computer Professionals Council of Nigeria (CPN), Prof. Adenike Osofisan;a CPN Representative, Mr Bayo Onimode; the President of the Nigerian Academy of Education, Prof. KabiruIsyaku; the National Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria, the National Association of Nigerian Students, among others. We immensely admit them for heeding our distress call.
Within 24 hours of rigorous work, we were capable to isolate wherever the occupation emanated from. It happened successful 65 centres successful Lagos and 92 centres successful Owerri zone. In these centres, the spot was not decently applied successful immoderate centre servers by the work supplier and that nonaccomplishment disrupted the upload of the candidates’ responses wrong the archetypal 3 oregon 4 days, arsenic applicable to Lagos and Owerri zones. The 2025 UTME that could person been our finest yet, were it not for the carelessness, negligence, and deficiency of interest exhibited by the agents entrusted with this important yet straightforward function. Immediately we realised this, we summoned the Chief External Examiners of Lagos, Imo, Anambra, Oyo, Abia and Ebonyi, the six states affected. Fortunately, they each swiftly responded to articulation the group. We besides invited Prof. Bashir Galadanchi, a starring adept successful Computer Science; the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPSS), which was represented by a leadingvoice successful nationalist advocacy, Dr. (Mrs) BukolaDosumu. A fig of our vocal critics were besides invited to the enactment specified that we could jointly and sincerely analyse the situation.
Despite being capable to place the root of the occupation and the affected centres, we are conscious of the achy harm it has inflicted connected the estimation of JAMB. As Registrar of JAMB, I clasp myself personally responsible, including for the negligence of the work provider, and I unreservedly apologise for it and the trauma that it has subjected affected Nigerians to, straight and indirectly. Once again, we apologise and guarantee you that this incidental represents a important setback for the Board’s reputation. We stay committed to emerging stronger successful our halfway values of transparency, fairness, and equity. It is our civilization to admit mistake due to the fact that we cognize that successful spite of the champion of our efforts, we are human, we are not perfect. The lone consolation we person successful this lawsuit is that it is conscionable 1 of the 2 work providers that did not bash good by uploading improperly but it was not a lawsuit of glitches nor sabotage.
By Tuesday morning, with the CEEs, the experts and Mr Osita Chidoka (a erstwhile Minister of Aviation) of Athena Centre, we selected samples of responses and reviewed. We compared the results and we are uncovering absorbing correlations but successful the 157 centers wherever distortions had occurred.
We unanimously agreed that each authorities of the Federation beryllium sampled. No motion of immoderate abnormality truthful acold has been detected successful immoderate centre extracurricular the ones mentioned and the laborious workout is ongoing.
5.0 No Problem without a Solution
We person decided that each the candidates affected successful the 157 centres retired of 882 centres volition beryllium contacted to retake their examinations starting from Friday, May 16, 2025.These candidates are to beryllium contacted done substance messages addressed to their registered telephone numbers, their email addresses, their profiles and telephone calls by JAMB. They are directed to reprint their Examination Slips for the rescheduled introspection dates.
While not oblivious of the information that WAEC examinations are ongoing, we person contacted WAEC and successful an unprecedented amusement of solidarity, the Council has graciously decided to arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable accommodate america wrong the WAEC time-slot. Any campaigner with a clash of timetable, peculiarly for Agricultural Science connected Friday, would beryllium rescheduled. However, we person endeavored to guarantee that nary specified exist. Most, if not all, specified candidates are scheduled for Saturday. Fortunately, the prescribed texts for SSCE are besides the prescribed texts for UTME isolated from the speechmaking substance of the UTME, which carries conscionable 10 marks successful our Use of English test.
6.0 Appeal, Appreciation and Apology
I recognize that determination are 3 almighty expressions which incorporate 1 word, 2 words and 3 words respectively. They are please, convey you and I americium sorry. So, I entreaty to the candidates and those affected by the mistake of our strategy to judge this mentation arsenic the information of the substance without embellishment, PLEASE. I apologise and instrumentality afloat work not conscionable successful words.
Then, I privation to accidental a large THANK YOU to the Honourable Minister of Education for his unwavering content successful JAMB and what the Board stands for. I besides admit each officers and officials who judge successful america for their goodwill successful the look of this challenge. We person vowed to uphold integrity arsenic the abiding doctrine of JAMB and we won’t waver oregon depart from it contempt the information that we are not infallible. I americium arsenic grateful to each stakeholders who person lent america their enactment and expertise successful arriving astatine a logical decision that we person arrived at. And for the inconveniencies, erstwhile again, connected behalf of JAMB, I say, I AM SORRY to each Nigerians.
Thank you
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