JAMB Under Fire Again as Mmesoma’s Old Result Video Resurfaces Amid Widespread Score Errors

Following JAMB’s admission of a widespread scoring error in the 2025 UTME, Nigerians have reignited debate over Mmesoma Ejikeme’s 2023 result controversy, questioning whether her alleged forgery was actually a consequence of systemic failure.

allscho In the wake of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) recent admission of a system error that impacted thousands of students’ scores, Nigerians have revived the controversial case of Mmesoma Ejikeme—resurfacing an old video where she presented her disputed 2023 UTME result.

Back in 2023, Mmesoma had claimed a score of 362, a figure she insisted she retrieved from the JAMB portal. However, following a high-profile investigation, she confessed under pressure that her actual score was 249, admitting to altering her result. The case drew national attention, leading to heated debates about student accountability and institutional integrity.

Now, following JAMB’s disclosure this May that over 1.5 million candidates scored below 200 in the 2025 exams due to a technical error affecting mainly students in Lagos and the South-East, old suspicions have reemerged.

Social media users are questioning whether Mmesoma’s confession was coerced and whether her result may have genuinely reflected a system flaw rather than deliberate forgery. An old video of her holding what she claimed was a printed result from the official portal has added fuel to the fire.

One X user, @dangbanamanager, shared:

“So, it’s possible they tampered with this girl’s result from the back end? JAMB has proven time and again that it can’t be trusted with something as critical as an exam that determines the future of thousands. A child has already taken their own life because of this.”

More reactions online include:

• @doziecuit: “This girl’s result was tampered with. I said it then, and I stand by it now. She was innocent but had no support.”
• @AdekunleOderind: “Our educational system has issues, but when the credibility of the exam body itself is in question, we have a serious problem. How many past failures were due to glitches?”
• @godknowsme: “When Mmesoma admitted to forging her result, she may have been under duress. JAMB owes her an apology.”
• @TheOlizhe: “Yes, Mmesoma used a 2021 result format in 2023. That was forgery. But JAMB’s recent actions show extreme incompetence. Both truths can coexist.”

As calls for accountability mount, public trust in JAMB continues to wane. Critics are demanding a transparent audit of past and current UTME results, as many worry that system glitches may have affected thousands more than officially acknowledged.

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Sources: ALLSCHOOL, GISTREEL