WAEC agrees with JAMB on likely exam rescheduling

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has “accommodated” its request for likely rescheduling of papers that will be holding the same day as its planned re-sitting of its own test.

JAMB’s registrar, Professor Isaq Oloyede, announced at a press conference, on Wednesday, that the exam body along with stakeholders had reviewed and found errors in the results of 379,997 candidates of its 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

A teary Oloyede admitted internal technical glitches for the errors that marred the exercise in five southeastern states and Lagos. JAMB’s results release showed that over 1.5million candidates out of the 1.9million candidates, who sat for the examination, scored below 200 marks. Oloyede said the uproar that greeted the results led to the timely review.

“This review, conducted with thoroughness and transparency, signifies JAMB’s resolve to uphold the sanctity of its examination processes. Going forward, stronger deployment validation protocols and real-time monitoring mechanisms will be implemented to prevent such oversights,” he said. Oloyede said JAMB undertook the “independent reviews” earlier than it ordinarily would, “to restore public confidence and ensure the reliability of the UTME for all stakeholders.”

He declared, “…This incident was neither a system failure nor administrative manipulation, but an outright human error.”