…takes responsibility
JAMB Registrar Is-haq Oloyed on Wednesday wept as he confirmed The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) , Is-haq Oloyed on Wednesday wept, as he confirmed that technical errors disrupted the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results for candidates across 157 centres in Lagos and Owerri zones.
He revealed that “within 24 hours of rigorous work, we were able to isolate where the problem emanated from.”
According to him, 65 centres (206,610 candidates) were affected in the Lagos zone and 92 centres (173,387 candidates) were affected in the Owerri zone.
“In simple terms, while 65 centers (206,610 candidates) were affected in Lagos zone (comprising only Lagos state), 92 centers (173,387 candidates) were affected in Owerri zone, which includes the South East states.”
Oloyede explained that the issue was identified “on the second day of the examinations this year, which was Friday, April 25, 2025. We discovered that there was some omission in the items within the LAG category.”
He said in these centres, the patch was not properly applied in some centre servers by the service provider, and that failure disrupted the upload of the candidates’ responses within the first three or four days, as applicable to the Lagos and Owerri zones.
“In clear terms, in the process of rectifying the issue, the technical personnel deployed by the Service Provider for LAG (Lagos and South-East zones) inadvertently failed to update some of the delivery servers. Regrettably, this oversight went undetected prior to the release of the results.”
Oloyede then announced that candidates affected by the technical glitch in 157 centres will be required to retake their 2025 UTME starting from Friday, May 16, 2025.
According to him, the board has “decided that all the candidates affected in the 157 centres out of 882 centres will be contacted to retake their examinations starting from Friday, May 16, 2025.”
Oloyede noted that these candidates are to be contacted through text messages addressed to their registered phone numbers, their email addresses, their profiles and phone calls by JAMB.
“They are directed to reprint their Examination Slips for the rescheduled examination dates,” Oloyede added.
He also disclosed that JAMB has coordinated with the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), which is currently conducting its Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE).
“While not oblivious of the fact that WAEC examinations are ongoing, we have contacted WAEC and in an unprecedented show of solidarity, the Council has graciously decided to as much as possible accommodate us within the WAEC time-slot.”
Oloyede also noted that “Any candidate with a clash of timetable, particularly for Agricultural Science on Friday, would be rescheduled. However, we have endeavored to ensure that no such exist.
“Most, if not all, such candidates are scheduled for Saturday. Fortunately, the prescribed texts for SSCE are also the prescribed texts for UTME, apart from the reading text of the UTME, which carries just 10 marks in our Use of English test.”
