- JAMB has agreed to reschedule the UTME for a Biology teacher who questioned his low results.
- John Felix Obuighkem, a qualified Biology teacher with nearly 20 years of experience, scored 37 in Biology and a total of 159 in the 2025 UTME.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has agreed to reschedule the UTME for a Biology teacher who questioned the accuracy of his unusually low results.
John Felix Obuighkem, who has a degree in Biology and nearly two decades of teaching experience, expressed shock after scoring just 37 in Biology and a total of 159 in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Convinced the result did not reflect his actual performance, he took to Facebook to voice his frustration.
He wrote:
“Please someone should reach out to Professor Ishaq Oloyede the JAMB registrar and tell him to review my result. Anybody who knows me knows that under no circumstances can I have a score as low as this. Through out my days of seeking my first admission, there wasn’t a day I scored below 200. Those were days when JAMB was tough like uncooked Kanda, talk of these years when JAMB even asked questions on concord and possessive pronouns. Leki headmaster that I am sure I failed only one question, or is it the comprehension? How on earth is it possible that I will score 37 in my own Biology I have first degree on and have taught it for 18 years? Bikonu ndi JAMB review my exam and give me my correct score.”
Following his public outcry, JAMB reached out and acknowledged an error affecting candidates, including him. The board subsequently invited him to retake the UTME on Friday, May 16.
However, the new date clashed with another exam he had already scheduled for that same day. He made another Facebook post, saying:
“Please JAMBHQ if you are rescheduling my exam, let it not be on Friday morning. Please I have another exam between 9:30 and 11:30. If it must be on Friday, let it be 3:00 PM session.”
In a later update, he revealed the rescheduled time but remained concerned about logistics.
“JAMBHQ has rescheduled my exam on Friday 16-05-2025 by 2:00 pm. My only fear is that I have another exam at Umuahia same day by 9:30 AM. How I wish I had my own vehicle.”
Meanwhile, JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede became visibly emotional on Wednesday, May 15, as he publicly apologized for the errors in this year’s UTME. He confirmed that a total of 379,997 candidates from Lagos and the South East geopolitical zone were impacted by the technical glitch.
Watch him speak below;
