JAMB: Reps to investigate 2025 UTME’s ‘technical error’

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The House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to probe the technical error that led to the mass failure in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.

The decision followed the consideration and adoption of a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Osun lawmaker, Adewale Adebayo.

A breakdown of the results released on May 9, 2025, showed that more than 78 per cent of candidates scored less than 200 points out of the 400 maximum points obtainable in the examination.

This development led to public outcry, with some Nigerians calling for the resignation of JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede.

JAMB undertook an early review and uncovered a major “technical error”.

On Wednesday, Oloyede accepted responsibility during a press conference in Abuja, stating that the results of 379,997 candidates were affected.

He noted that the board discovered discrepancies linked to faulty server updates in its Lagos and south-east zones, which led to the failure to upload candidates’ responses during the first three days of the examination. Punch