 branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed its readiness to take legal action against the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)){kind=link}
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed its readiness to take legal action against the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) due to the high rate of failure in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The union’s chairman, Comrade Oyibo Eze, disclosed this during a press briefing held in Nsukka on Wednesday.
He claimed the poor performance, which predominantly affected candidates from the South East, seemed to be an intentional move by JAMB to deny students from the region access to university education.
“My office has been inundated with protests, calls, and visits by parents and the general public on this deliberate massive failure in the 2025 JAMB examination.”
He further warned that “ASUU will challenge this result in a High Court if JAMB fails to review the result and give candidates their merited scores.”
Eze argued that “JAMB knows that children from the South East must score higher before they can get admission, whereas their counterparts in some parts of the country will use a 120 JAMB score to get admission to study medicine in universities in their area.”
He cited the statistics from the recently released result, stating that “In the JAMB recently released result, out of 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the 2025 examination, over 1.5 million candidates scored less than 200, and the majority of these are from the South East and Lagos State, where many Igbos reside.”
The ASUU chairman called on governors from the South East to take a stand against what he described as an orchestrated plan to marginalize students from the region.
“The governors in the zone should not sit and watch JAMB toy with the academic future of our children.”
He clarified that “I am not against the board punishing those found guilty of exam malpractice, but JAMB should not, because of these few candidates, fail all the candidates in an exam centre.”
Eze described the outcome from the University Secondary School, Nsukka, as alarming, noting that not a single student who took the UTME from the school managed to score 200 or above.
He urged JAMB to swiftly address the issue and “act fast to do the needful by reviewing the result,” stressing that the widespread failure was becoming a national concern that could potentially lead to widespread protests if left unaddressed.