A combined picture of JAMB logo and Prof Ishaq Oloyede
By Victiry Oghene
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has failed in the handling of the 2025 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) citing technical problems and this has culminated to the demise of 19-year-old Timilehin Faith Opesusi, who committed suicide following her disappointment over a low score in the 2025 JAMB UTME.
NATIONAL WAVES gathered that Opesusi ingested rodent poison on Monday after scoring 190 in the recently released results.
NATIONAL WAVES learnt that Opesusi, who hailed from Abeokuta but resided in Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos State, with her older sibling had applied to study microbiology and had also taken the examination last year, scoring higher than this year.
She had confided in a close friend that her result last year was better than this year’s one.
She reportedly asked for palm oil at her sister’s office to relieve the pain caused by something she had ingested at home. Recognising the severity of the situation, her sister raised the alarm, attracting sympathisers to the scene.
Opesusi reportedly confessed to taking poison before proceeding to her sister’s office. Tragically, she passed away at Kolak Hospital in Odogunyan, Ikorodu.
In a shocking twist, just 30 minutes after her death, Opesusi received a provisional admission notification via her Gmail account. Her parents arrived in Ikorodu upon hearing the news and took her body back to Abeokuta for burial.
JAMB announced its shotcomings via its X handle, @JAMBHQ that there were technical errors which led to mass failure of the candidates.
“Man Proposes, God Disposes!
It has been established that a technical glitch affected 157 centres out of the 887 centres in the 2025 UTME. This was basically responsible for the general low performance of the candidates scheduled to sit the examination in those centres” JAMB wrote.
JAMB registrar, Ishaq Oloyede also confirmed that technical errors led to the low performances of the candidates. He stated this at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, he said the results of over 387,000 candidates were affected.
He added the that board discovered discrepancies linked to faulty server updates in its Lagos and Owerri 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.
He said 65 centres in Lagos (206,610 candidates) and 92 centres in Owerri zone (173,387 candidates) were affected, bringing the total number of impacted candidates to 387,997.
To address the issue, JAMB said it will conduct a rescheduled UTME for all affected candidates starting Friday, May 16.
