The University of Ilorin, Kwara State, has expressed support and encouragement to the Joint Admission and matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede following the national ignominy caused by the technical glitch the exam body suffered during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which led to the cancellation of results in Lagos and the entire South East States.

University of Ilorin through a statement signed by the Vice Chancellor, Prof Wahab Egbewole, commended Prof Oloyede for the manner he handled it and described him as a good ambassador of the university.

In a letter dated issued on Thursday and addressed to JAMB Headquaters with the caption “JAMB 2025 UTME RESULTS” the VC noted that as a university, they would wish to put on record the fact that the Board approached the issues that arose on the result with truthfulness and nothing was hidden from the public.

“We hereby write to appreciate you on how the developments on the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination was handled by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board under your leadership.

“As a University, we want to put on record the fact that the Board approached the issues that arose on the result with truthfulness and nothing was hidden from the public. This approach demonstrated courage, honesty of purpose, integrity, strength of character, and on the whole a call to the younger generation to emulate these positive values.

“The admission of the error committed by one of the service providers culminating in the result that affected more than 300,000 candidates could have been laid at the doorstep of the service provider but you took full responsibility. This is an uncommon phenomenon in Nigeria.

“We pray that God will continue to lead you and grant you the grace to be of more invaluable service to our country.

“Well done sir and we are indeed very proud of you as our distinguished Alumnus and worthy Ambassador. Please be assured of our esteemed regards,” the letter read

Speaking during a press conference, the JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, expressed deep regret over what he described as a disappointing setback in the exercise that had, until the glitch, been considered one of the most successful in recent years.

“So, I appeal to the candidates and those affected by the error of our system to accept this explanation as the truth of the matter without embellishment, please. I apologise and take full responsibility, not just in words,” he said.

Oloyede said the issue affected 157 examination centres across Lagos and the South-East.

He said the glitch affected 206,610 candidates across 65 centres in Lagos State and 173,387 candidates in 92 centres across South East states.

While 54.37 per cent of candidates affected are in Lagos, the remaining 45.63 per cent are spread across Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, and Enugu States.

Oloyede explained that the glitch was caused by a failed patch meant to update examination servers in the region.

He assured that the affected candidates would retake the examination between May 16 and May 18, 2025.

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The ongoing nationwide strike by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the National Association of Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) continued yesterday on most university campuses across the country.

The unions’ monitoring team yesterday shut down the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) Demonstration Primary School.

It was learnt that the team stormed the primary school within the university, closed it and asked the head teacher and the pupils to go home to enforce the strike.

A senior employee at UNIPORT’s administrative department, who spoke in confidence, said: “The taskforce enforcing the strike today shut down the UNIPORT’s Demonstration Primary School. The headmistress of the schools thought that since it is a primary school, it is not included in the strike.

“But the taskforce explained that members of staff of the primary school are also members of the unions and should be affected by the strike.

“The strike has been effective since it started on Monday. None of them reported to work apart from the people enforcing the strike.”

The strike also stalled the orientation programme organised by the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) at Ile-Ife in Osun State for first year students.

The university’s SSANU Chairman, Dr. Taiwo Arobadi, announced this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ile-Ife.

Arobadi said that it was a pity that new students, who were being exposed to the dos and don’ts in the institution, could have such an ugly experience while entering the institution.

The SSANU chairman said the union unanimously agreed that the strike be total and indefinite until government listened to its striking members.

“We have spoken with the university management and appealed that they understand the position of the union, adding that the order for the strike came from the national leadership of the union.

“Immediately we receive alert on our phones, we will resume our duties,” he said.

The unions’ Joint Action Committee (JAC) at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) yesterday joined the strike.

Addressing reporters in Ilorin, the university’s NASU Chairman Suberu Ibrahim said the strike would remain total and indefinite until the Federal Government paid the four months’ withheld salaries of its members.

His SSANU counterpart, Mr. Falowo Naheem, expressed displeasure over alleged mistreatment that the unions’ members were getting from the government.

At the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufo-Alike Ikwo (AE-FUNAI) in Ebonyi State, NASU threatened to sanction defaulters of the strike.

The AE-FUNAI’s NASU Chairman, Mr. Chibuike Igwe, told NAN that the union had mobilised for the full compliance to the industrial action in the university.

Also, the strike grounded administrative activities yesterday at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture in Umudike (MOUAU), Abia State.

Our correspondent reports that apart from the office of the vice chancellor that was open, which members of the striking unions moved to close, all other offices were shut down.

Only the Department of Veterinary Medicine, whose students started their exams last week, was spared.

Other departments were said to have concluded their examinations last two to three weeks.

Apart from security operatives seen at different postings, all other non-academic workers stayed at home.

At the University of Jos (UNIJOS), SSANU Chairman Anthony Joro and his NASU counterpart, Monday Danjuma, said the unions’ members would not return to work until the Federal Government met their demands.

At the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), the unions grounded administrative activities in all the departments.

SSANU Chairman Linus Akata said academic activities at the institution would remain on hold until all outstanding payments were made.

He said: “We held our congress yesterday (Monday) and people voted 100 per cent and commenced the strike immediately.

“Today (Tuesday), it was complied with 100 per cent. The bursar, the registrar and all the principal officers are working from home. No office is open. Both primary and secondary schools have been shut down.”

The unions’ branches at the University of Ibadan (UI) complied with the strike.

A lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Criminology, Dr. Tade Oludayo, told our correspondent that the strike did not have a direct impact on students as they had finished their examinations.

A student and President of the Faculty of Law, Idowu Ademola, said though students had finished their examinations few weeks ago, lecture theatres, libraries, and other places of learning were shut down due to the strike.

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