- Safiu Kehinde
The House of Representatives has resolved to probed the technical error recorded by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) at the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
NPO Reported that the board had last week announced poor performance from the UTME candidates with majority scoring below 200 marks.
The result had led to public dismay over the conduct of the examination and the credibility of the results which most parents claimed to contradict the academic performance of their wards.
In the wake of the backlash, JAMB reviewed the results with its Registrar, Prof. Isiaq Oloyede, admitting to the technical errors yesterday.
Reacting to the development during the green chamber’s plenary session on Thursday, Adewale Adebayo, an Osun State lawmaker, raised the motion for the investigation of the technical error reported by JAMB.
The lawmakers passed the resolution for the investigation.
According to report, Adebayo while defending the motion, said many Nigerians have suffered losses in the course of travelling long distances to their UTME examination centres.
Sada Soli, a lawmaker representing Katsina state, urged the house to commend the JAMB registrar for admitting the technical error and apologising to Nigerians.
Soli, in his contribution, said the Isiaq has “demonstrated integrity” and increased the board’s revenue since he was appointed into office.
However, the Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, said it would be up to the committee conducting the investigation to decide whether or not to commend the JAMB registrar.
Abass subjected the motion for a voice vote with the lawmakers unanimously adopting it.