The JAMB registrar broke down in tears on Wednesday as he apologised for the UTME errors.
Glamtush reports that the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Wednesday, broke into tears as he apologised for the errors in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
“I apologise for the trauma caused the candidates,” Oloyede said tearfully during a press conference in Abuja.
“Once again, we apologise and assure you that this incident represents a significant setback…. We remain committed to emerging stronger in our core values of transparency, fairness, and equity.
“It is our culture to admit error because we know that in spite of the best of our efforts, we are human; we are not perfect,” Oloyede said as he wiped tears off his eyes with a white handkerchief.
He also announced that about 379,997 candidates in the just concluded 2025 exercise would retake the examination.
Recall that Oloyede at the start of the press briefing acknowledged “one or two errors” made during the 2025 UTME.
This followed widespread complaints of technical glitches, unusually low scores, and alleged irregularities in the questions and the answers during the exercise.
