{"id":66226,"date":"2025-05-21T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66226"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:15:07","slug":"no-ethnic-plot-in-utme-error-says-jamb-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/21\/no-ethnic-plot-in-utme-error-says-jamb-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ethnic Plot in UTME Error, Says JAMB Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amid public outrage and calls for his resignation, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has firmly denied allegations of ethnic bias in the technical error that marred the 2025 UTME.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at a stakeholders\u2019 meeting with civil society groups, external examiners, and tertiary institution representatives, Oloyede clarified that the widespread glitch, which affected nearly 380,000 candidates across 157 centres in Lagos and the South East, was the result of human error &#8211; not ethnic sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no glitch, no sabotage, and no ethnic angle. It was a technical error caused by staff of a service provider. I do not care whether they are Igbo or not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are simply workers who made a mistake, and we have owned up and taken corrective steps,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>JAMB had earlier discovered that faulty server updates led to the failure of candidate response uploads during the first three days of the examination.<\/p>\n<p>The error affected a significant number of candidates, leading to a resit exam held between May 16 and 19.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy escalated when the South East caucus in the House of Representatives demanded Oloyede\u2019s resignation and a cancellation of the 2025 UTME.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers also resolved to launch a probe into the conduct of the exam.<\/p>\n<p>Despite pressure, Oloyede insisted that JAMB had acted swiftly and responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that more than 78 percent of candidates scored below 200 out of a possible 400, a trend that sparked national concern and speculation.<\/p>\n<p>The registrar said the examination board would continue to improve its systems to avoid similar occurrences in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Amid public outrage and calls for his resignation, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has firmly denied allegations of ethnic bias in the technical error that marred the 2025 UTME. Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at a stakeholders\u2019 meeting with civil society groups, external examiners, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66228,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66226\/revisions\/66228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}