Ohanaeze to JAMB: Award 300 Marks to All South-East Candidates or Face Lawsuit

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, the youth section of the Igbo sociocultural organization, has requested that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) assign 300 points to all South-East students for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Ohanaeze criticized JAMB for its intention to administer a new test to anyone affected by what it called unacceptable flaws in the recently released 2025 UTME results.
According to reports, on Wednesday, May 14, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB Registrar, admitted that errors were a factor in the poor test results of applicants from Lagos State and the five South-East states.

As a result, the Board declared that plans were in motion to reschedule the test for the impacted applicants.
However, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, stated that this arrangement was completely unacceptable in a statement made public on Thursday, May 15.

According to Okwu, it was unfair for JAMB to put the candidates through “another round of mental torture, stress, and risk” because of uncontrollable conditions.

Since JAMB has already tortured our people’s minds, we want to make it clear that they will not tolerate any more exams.

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The candidates have been subjected to mental torment ever since the phony results were revealed, thus they are not in the correct state of mind to take another test.

In addition, who will pay for it? Are these the same parents that are having a lot of financial difficulties?

“How dangerous would it be to relocate to the exam sites in a nation plagued by insecurity?” Ohanaeze asked.

“Having said this, we demand that JAMB assign a 300 score to all the South-East candidates affected by its own error, not the candidates’,” Nnabuike added. Igbos have a lot of intelligence and might have earned $300 or more.

“It was obviously intended to punish the people of the South-East by denying them access to education.

“We will not hesitate to take JAMB to court if they disregard our request; the Board will not be saved by the Registrar’s crocodile tears.”