By Citizenship Daily
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the technical error that led to the mass failure of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The House resolution followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Rep. Adewale Adebayo from Osun state.
Recall that JAMB released result of candidates who sat for the 2025 UTME on May 9 were so many candidates failed.
A breakdown showed that more than 78 percent of candidates scored less than 200 points out of the 400 maximum obtainable points.
However, JAMB undertook an early review and uncovered a major technical error.
On Wednesday, Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, during a press conference in Abuja, said the results of 379,997 candidates were affected.
He said the board discovered discrepancies linked to faulty server updates in its Lagos and south-east zones, which led to the failure to upload candidates’ responses during the first three days of the examination.
Oloyede said the problem, which was caused by one of the two technical service providers for the exercise, went undetected before the results were released.
The affected candidates, he said, will now have the opportunity to retake the examination between May 16 and May 19, 2025.
Moving the motion on the matter during plenary in Abuja, Adebayo said many Nigerians have suffered losses while traveling long distances to their UTME examination centres.
In his contribution to the motion, Sada Soli, a lawmaker from Katsina, urged house to commend the JAMB registrar for admitting the technical error and apologising to Nigerians.
He said the JAMB boss has demonstrated integrity and increased the board’s revenue since he was appointed into office.
However, Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house, said it would be up to the committee conducting the investigation to decide whether or not to commend the JAMB registrar.
The motion was unanimously adopted when it was subjected to a voice vote Abbas.
Consequently, the house also asked the federal government to establish CTB centres across all LGAs in the country.
The house also asked JAMB release results of under 16 students.
