Just-In: JAMB Registrar, Oloyede in tears, announces rescheduled UTME

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, broke down in tears as he admitted that to errors in the 2025 UTME and announced that the exam body would reschedule 379,997 candidates affected by technical glitches in the five states of the South East and Lagos to retake the examination.

Oloyede at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday said, “206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos and 92 centres in the Owerri zone comprising 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East were affected.”

Oloyede, who took responsibility for what he described as a “sabotage” of the 2025 UTME, said the affected candidates will start getting text messages from the Board starting Thursday.

He added, “The affected candidates will start getting text messages for rescheduling starting from tomorrow.

“I apologise, I take full responsibility.”

Of the 1.9 million candidates who sat the UTME, over 1.5 million reportedly scored below 200 out of the maximum 400 marks, raising concerns across the education sector.