Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede, has said he considered resigning after the technical error that marred the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The results from JAMB’s 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) were released on May 9.
A breakdown showed that more than 78 per cent of candidates scored less than 200 points out of the 400 maximum points obtainable.
JAMB undertook a review in response to public protests and uncovered a major “technical error” that compromised results.
Oloyede said, on May 14, that the results of 379,997 candidates across 157 centres in its Lagos and south-east zones were affected.
He cited faulty server updates that led to the failure to upload candidate responses during the first three days of the exam.
Oloyede said the problem, which was caused by one of its technical service providers, went undetected before the results were released.
JAMB conducted a resit examination, starting from May 16 and extending beyond May 19.
Oloyede met with chief external examiners, civil society organisations, and tertiary school stakeholders on Wednesday in Abuja.
He addressed calls for his resignation from critics who purported an ethnic conspiracy and sabotage in the UTME crisis.
The registrar said the media pressure from the 2025 UTME crisis caused him to momentarily consider resigning as the head of JAMB.
“When it happened, my first reaction is to resign. But people advised me that the students will never forgive me because it will look like you abandoned them at such a time,” Oloyede said.