The former presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore, has requested the scrapping of the Joint Admissions and Enrollment Board (JAMB), the National Corps of the Youth Service (NYSC), the Tertiary Education Fiduciary Fund (Tetfund) and the Loan Fund for Nigerian Education (Nelfund), which describes them as “useless”.
Sowore announced this in a publication on his X account after the recent admission of Jamb errors that affected the results of the candidates during the unified tertiary registration of 2025 (UTME).
“It's time to discard these extracurricular bureaucratic competitions … JAMB, NYSC, TETFUND, NELFUND, they are all useless!” Sowore wrote.
Remember that Jamb had admitted Wednesday in errors in 2025 UTME that contributed to the low performance of the students. The Board Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, revealed this during a press conference in Abuja.
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“What should have been a moment of joy has changed due to one or two mistakes,” said Olyede.
UTME is a critical prerequisite for admission in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Try the candidates on four issues, including the mandatory use of English, with the other three extracted from their proposed field of study.
Of the more than 1.9 million candidates who sat at the UTME, more than 1.5 million obtained scores below 200 of the 400 maximum points, which raises concerns between interested parties in the education sector and the outrage of parents and candidates.
According to the previous statistics published by the exam agency, a total of 1,955,069 results were processed, of which only 4,756 candidates (0.24 percent) obtained 320 or more.
In addition, 7,658 candidates (0.39 percent) obtained a score between 300 and 319, which caused the total number of those who obtained 300 and more than 12,414 candidates (0.63 percent).
In addition, 73,441 candidates (3.76 percent) obtained a score between 250 and 299, while 334,560 candidates (17.11 percent) obtained scores between 200 and 249.
A total of 983,187 candidates (50.29 percent) obtained scores between 160 and 199, which is considered the minimum threshold for admissions in many institutions. In addition, 488,197 candidates (24.97 percent) obtained a score between 140 and 159, 57,419 candidates (2.94 percent) obtained scores between 120 and 139, 3,820 candidates (0.20 percent) obtained between 100 and 119 and 2,031 candidates (0.10 percent) obtained below 100.