Nigerians have slammed the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) over the glitches and errors in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, speaking at a press conference on Wednesday explained the glitches in the 2025 UTME results, acknowledging technical errors that affected some candidates’ results, particularly in Lagos and Owerri zones.

“We are human, and despite our best efforts, errors occurred,” Oloyede stated, stressing that the issues were due to failures in server updates at 157 examination centres. These issues impacted 206,610 candidates in Lagos and 173,387 candidates in the Owerri zone.

The JAMB registrar outlined the extensive quality assurance processes the Board follows, including collaboration with various technical experts and institutions. However, he admitted that these errors were not detected before the results were released.

“We did everything we could to ensure a smooth process, but an error happened. Man proposes, but God disposes,” Oloyede remarked.

Nigerians, however, took to social media to express their anger at JAMB, slamming the examination body over the glitches and errors in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.

“It is shameful and unacceptable for the exam body to be unable to conduct a credible exercise, even when computer and automation is utilised with heavy allocations from tax payers. In civilised climes, the CEO needs to resign and tender apology to Nigerians. Gross incompetence!. Worse still, not just errors but deliberate manipulations have been going on undetected and unchallenged by enlightened Nigerians. Jamb was caught red-handed this time,” Chriss Idi wrote on Facebook.

“Do you know that a young girl committed suicide because she had a low score? What if she is among the error that JAMB management is talking about?,” Iyen Osagiede lamented on Facebook.

“This has been happening for long. The errors this year were just too obvious and undeniable. Too many technical errors this year,” Richard Folayan stated.

“Someone ‘unlifed’ herself in Ikorodu over a poor JAMB result. If the poor result was due to JAMB’s fault, there should be a severe consequence for its leadership,” Balogun Adeola said.

“JAMB is a revenue generation organisation and the only way for them to meet their revenue targets for both themselves and Federal government is to fail students considered to be their only customer and source of revenue generation,” Abebayo Babatunde wrote.

“My concern is that if this error hadn’t been so widespread and met with public outcry, JAMB might never have acknowledged it. It makes one wonder whether some of the minor complaints in the past were actually genuine and probably overlooked. Looking at the importance of this national exam, I strongly urge JAMB to be more dutiful in evaluating its facilities and adopt a standard quality assurance strategy. This should involve rigorous checks on both CBT centres and the internal technical team to ensure a smooth, error-free examination process going forward,” Afolabi Olanrewaju said.