The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) branch, has threatened to sue the Joint Matriculation Board (JAMB) over massive failure recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME).

The Chairman of ASUU-UNN, Comrade Óyibo Eze, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen in Nsukka on Wednesday.

Oyibo said the massive failure which mostly affected candidates from the South East, was a deliberate attempt by JAMB to stop children from the zone from getting admission.

“My office has been inundated with protests, calls and visits by parents and the general public on this deliberate massive failure in 2025 JAMB examination.

“ASUU will challenge this result in High Court if JAMB fails to review the result and give candidates their merited scores .

“JAMB knows that children from South East must score higher before they can get admission whereas their counterparts in some parts of the country will use 120 JAMB score to get admission to read medicine in universities in their area.

“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 majority of these are from the South East and Lagos State where many Igbos reside,” he said.

He called on governors from the South East to rise up and challenge this injustice targeted towards preventing children from the zone from gaining admission into higher institutions in the country.

“The governors in the zone should not sit and watch JAMB toy with academic future of our children.

” I am not against the board punishing those found guilty of exam malpractice but JAMB should not, because of these few candidates, fail the whole candidates in an exam centre,” he said.

The ASUU boss said that it was unbelievable and unacceptable that in the whole University Secondary School, Nsukka, no candidate that sat for the exam scored up to 200 in the UTME.

“This school has superlative students who have excelled in academics both inside and outside the school, how come all of them scored less than 200 in the exam.

“Even if JAMB discovered one or two candidates for exam malpractice, is that enough reason to fail all others who have prepared very hard for that exam,” he said.

Oyibo advised JAMB to act fast to do the needful by reviewing the result as that massive failure had become a national issue which might attract national protest if nothing urgent was done. (NAN)

Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Wednesday betrayed emotion and broke into tears as he Apologised the errors in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.Oloyede, during a news conference in Bwari, took responsibility of the errors in the just concluded examinations.

“I apologise for the trauma caused the candidates and I take full responsibility for this,” he said. He admitted that errors were made during the 2025 UTME after the investigations carried out.

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The 13 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Calabar has denied any involvement in the occasional harassments at the Abonita Cocoa Estate in Etung Local Government Area of the state.Spokesperson for the brigade, Capt. Jimoh Jamaila, said that there was no official deployment of soldiers to the farm, nor was any attached to individuals in the estate.

Speaking with newsmen in Calabar, on Wednesday, Jamaila challenged those alleging the involvement of the army personnel to come forward with their identities. According to her, the army will be excited, if the affected allottees raising the alarm can identify the soldiers in question.The management of the estate had been a source of contention between the Cross River Government and the family of Mbu Liku.The Liku’s family is laying claim to the ownership of the estate, insisting that the land belonged to their late father.Report says that the dispute over ownership of the estate is pending in several courts in the state.The present administration of Sen. Bassey Otu, however, disregarded the claim and allocated the estate to some farmers.Some of the farmers last week accused the Liku’s family of using soldiers to beat and chase them away from their farms, and harvesting their farm produce.The allottees, which included Messrs Joseph Ekong, Duke Njor, Boniface, Nic Ntui, Clement Isong-Amba, and Etta Roland, alleged that soldiers had on several occasions assaulted and harassed them on the orders of Liku.Ntui, who spoke on behalf of the other allottees, claimed that the soldiers, reportedly accompanying Liku, have been preventing them from accessing their farms, which they “legitimately paid for and acquired from the State Government”.Ntui further alleged that armed soldiers usually stormed the estate, intimidating and chasing them away, and allowing Liku to harvest their cocoa.“There’s already an existing ruling in suit No: HM/73/2020. And Dismissal in Suit No: HC/MSC 24/2024, an action by way of prerogative orders of mandamus and prohibition,” Ntui said.Meanwhile, the State Security Adviser (SSA), Maj.-Gen. Okoi Obono (rtd.) confirmed that Liku used soldiers at the Achufa, Ajassor Mission, and Etomi checkpoints to intimidate the farmers.“Mr Mbu Liku should be warned to desist from eliciting the services of soldiers or security agencies to further his negative tendencies immediately,” Obono said.However, Liku denied the allegation, saying that at no time did he engage the services of any soldier to physically assault, intimidate, or harass a fellow farmer as claimed by some of the allottees.He contended that the allottees were the ones blackmailing him for their selfish interest. (NAN)