The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to take legal action against the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) following what it described as massive failure in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
Chairman of ASUU-UNN, Comrade Óyibo Eze, disclosed this on Wednesday while addressing journalists in Nsukka.
Eze alleged that the widespread failure, which he claimed disproportionately affected candidates from the South East, appeared to be a deliberate move by JAMB to block students from the region from gaining university admission.
“My office has been inundated with protests, calls, and visits by parents and concerned citizens over this deliberate massive failure in the 2025 JAMB examination,” he said.
He warned that ASUU would challenge the outcome in court if JAMB failed to review the results and restore what he called “deserved scores” to candidates.
“JAMB knows that children from the South East must score higher before they can gain admission, whereas in some parts of the country, candidates get admitted into medical programmes with as low as 120,” Eze said.
He noted that out of the 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the 2025 UTME, more than 1.5 million scored below 200, with a large percentage of them from the South East and Lagos, where many Igbos reside.
Eze called on South East governors to take immediate steps to address what he termed as a calculated injustice against the region’s youths.
“The governors in the zone should not sit and watch JAMB toy with the academic future of our children,” he said. “I’m not against penalizing those guilty of malpractice, but punishing entire exam centres is unfair.”
He described as shocking the fact that not a single student from the University Secondary School, Nsukka, scored up to 200 in the UTME.
Eze urged JAMB to swiftly review the results, warning that the situation was becoming a national issue and could spark widespread protests if left unaddressed.
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