A Nigerian teacher has raised alarms after a high-achieving student went without food for 48 hours, distraught over an unexpectedly low JAMB score, amid widespread concerns of possible systemic errors in the 2025 UTME results.
allscho A Nigerian educator, Obanuso Temitope Obanuso, has raised an urgent concern over the emotional toll the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results are taking on students. In a recent Facebook post, he revealed that one of his female students has refused to eat for two straight days after receiving a much lower score than expected.
Obanuso, who prepares candidates for the UTME, said the student—confident in her academic performance—believes there has been a mistake. She has pleaded for her result to be re-evaluated and insisted that if her actual score is below 300 upon review, she should be held accountable. “She hasn’t eaten in 48 hours,” he wrote. “She believes deeply in what she wrote and feels wronged.”
The teacher further noted a troubling pattern: many of his previously high-performing students received drastically lower scores this year, some falling from 270–280 in 2024 to as low as 123 in 2025. He said dozens of parents and students have reached out to him, all reporting similar drops in performance.
“This isn’t about unserious students,” he stated. “Nigerian students are intelligent and hardworking. It’s unfair to dismiss their concerns as laziness or a poor reading culture. These issues point to a possible systemic failure.”
Online reactions echoed these frustrations.
Omolola Prosper commented: “There’s clearly something wrong with JAMB this year. The real fight is how to get justice in a system like Nigeria.”
Simeon Olukunle added: “People blame students too easily. But when Nigeria happens to you, you realize the system is the problem.”
The incident has sparked wider calls for transparency and accountability in the UTME assessment process.
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