University of Nigeria Nsukka branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has issues a threat of lawsuit against the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board over the massive failure that marred the recently concluded 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
Óyibo Eze, the chairman of the UNN branch of ASUU stated this while having an interface with journalists on Wednesday in Nsukka.
He explained that the mass failure which mostly affected candidates of South East origin was a deliberate attempt by the board to limit the prospect of the students from the zone from getting admission into tertiary institutions.
“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.
“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 the 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 the majority of these are from the South East and Lagos State, where many Igbos reside.”
He therefore implored governors from the region to take a stand against the targeted injustice aimed at preventing candidates from the zone from gaining admission into higher institutions of their choice.
“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.
He explained that it was unreasonable that of all the students of the University secondary School, Nsukka who sat for the 2025 UTME, none of them scored up to 200.
“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 stated.
