Alarming 2025 UTME Failures
OpenLife Nigeria reports that arising from the alarming candidates’ failures in the 2025 JAMB examinations, John C. Nwobodo, Esq, has requested JAMB to make full disclosure of the questions and corresponding answers in “respect of each candidate to enable self-evaluation.”
In the petition, Barrister John Nwobodo copied the Honourable Minister of Education, the Senate President and the Honourable Speaker of the House of Representatives, as reproduced below
The Registrar General
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
National Headquarters, Bwari
P.M.B 189, Garki, Abuja
Sir,
Freedom Of Information Request With Respect To The 2025 UTME Questions And Answers
We are Solicitors to the 1,534,654 candidates who wrote the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination whose scores are below 200.
They consist of 2,031 who scored below 100; 3,820 who scored between 100-119; 57,419 who scored between 120-139; 488,197 who scored between 140 and 159; and 983,187 who scored between 160-199.
They shall hereafter be referred to as “Our Clients”.
We write on their behalf as follows:
1. The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) (hereinafter “The Board”) administered the 2025 UTME between 24th April, 2025 to 5th May, 2025. In a statement accompanying the official release of the result, the Board announced that only about 22 percent of candidates scored 200 and above, while over 70 percent scored below 200.
2. The statistics reveal the worst failure rate ever in the history of the JAMB conducted examination thereby raising public concern and outcry as to the reason behind the baffling and startling poor performance.
3. Our clients highly dispute the results as not reflective of their effort presupposing that there might have been a possible glitch in the JAMB software potentially resulting in the mismatch between the questions and the answers.
4. The above scenario has cast a shadow of doubt over the integrity of the software deployed by the Board in administering and marking the questions. Unfortunately, the system is programmed in way that candidates are only able to view their scores against each subject and the aggregate thereof. Moreover, the development has put your Board on the spotlight that the need for accountability at this point and going forward becomes imperative and non-negotiable.
5. In the circumstance, the transparency and accountability required of the Board entail a reconfiguration of your system to not only display the aggregate score of the candidates but also the questions and the corresponding answers. The approach would either validate the results as published by the Board thus earning the Board much more respect and public trust and clear the candidates doubt or may produce a result necessitating the implementation of appropriate reforms to strengthen the integrity of the examination thus impacting positively in future examinations while addressing genuine cases arising from the recent examination.
6. Therefore, as instructed by our clients, we make the following demands:-
(a). That your Board makes full disclosure of the questions and the corresponding answers administered in respect of each candidate to enable self-evaluation.
(b). That your Board should undertake a comprehensive review of the marking of the questions administered to ascertain that the correct answers were fixed against the questions.
7. Take notice that we have the instruction of our clients to explore every legal avenue to seek justice for the aggrieved candidates. Accordingly, we would be glad to cooperate with you on any measures that would help to clear any doubts in the minds of the candidates regarding their actual performance in the 2025 UTME.
8. We look forward to your cooperation and earliest response in accordance with the timeframe for feedback as provided in the Freedom of Information Act.
9. Accept the assurances of our highest esteem and professional regards.
Yours faithfully,
John C. Nwobodo, Esq.
M.C. Agbo, Esq.
Cc:
1. Hon. Minister of Education
Federal Ministry of Education
Federal Secretariat Complex
Phase III, Shehu Shagari Way, Abuja
2. The Senate President
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
National Assembly Complex
Three Arms Zone, Abuja
3. The Hon. Speaker
House of Representatives
National Assembly Complex
Three Arms Zone, Abuja
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