US EditionNigeria: JAMB UTME Glitch - Majority of Affected Candidates Are in Lagos
- On May 14, 2025, the examination body responsible for conducting the UTME revealed that a technical fault impacted more than 379,997 candidates in Lagos and the South East regions during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
- JAMB attributed the glitch to a failed server patch intended to update examination systems across 157 centres in Lagos State and South East states.
- The technical issue impacted a total of 379,997 candidates, with 206,610 individuals at 65 examination centres in Lagos and 173,387 candidates at 92 centres located in the South East region, which includes the states of Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, and Enugu.
- Registrar Professor Is-haq Oloyede said, "I apologise and take full responsibility," expressing regret over the setback, which disrupted an exam considered successful until the glitch.
- Following protests and legal threats from ASUU-UNN citing deliberate mass failure targeting candidates mainly from the South East and Lagos, JAMB invited stakeholders and planned a resit for affected candidates.
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Nigerian News. Latest Nigeria News. Your online Nigerian Newspaper.UTME 2025: Candidates for resit to get text messages from today
Candidates who have been scheduled to resit the 2025 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination, UTME, will begin getting text messages from today (Thursday). In total, at least 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South East and Lagos are expected to participate. This was confirmed by the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, during a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. “206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos and 92 centres i…
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The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has alleged that the mass failure recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME) was a deliberate attempt to sabotage candidates from the South-East region. The Chairman of ASUU-UNN, Comrade Óyibo Eze, made the claim while briefing reporters in Nsukka on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. He threatened to initiate a lawsuit against the Joint…
JAMB Glitches: S’East senators raise concerns over impact on region
By Myke Agunwa Following the technical glitches experienced during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) that affected all the states in the Southeast and some parts of Lagos State, Southeast Senate caucus has stated that the situation is ‘curious and highly suspicious.’ The lawmakers said that they would not want to contemplate that the glitches may have been deliberately configured to affect children from the zone. The Joint Ad…
Candidates, Parents crowd JAMB CBT centre in Lagos
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has begun the rescheduling of the 379,997 affected candidates for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination. The rescheduling began on Thursday morning after the registrar of the examination body, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made it known in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. Oloyede admitted errors in the […] The post Candidates, Parents crowd JAMB CBT centre in Lagos appeared first on Trend…
The Systematic Oppression of Biafrans by the Nigerian Government: JAMB’s Recent Actions as Evidence
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