Anger, indignation such as Cut-Off of VCS Peg at 150, polytechnic at 100

…Flags OloyEde Top Scoring as a mercenary suspicion

… 11 Jamb staff arrested in Ogun, 3,300 candidates under investigation

Balqees Adeniji and Feyisayo Ogunbiyi

A wave of public indignation followed the decision by the deputy Cancellieri and other parties concerned of tertiary education to support the minimum interruption brand for university admission to 150 and 100 for the Polytechnics and the universities of education for the academic session of 2025/2026.

Platform Times reports that the decision, announced at the joint political meeting of admissions and registration (Jamb) 2025 on the admissions held in Abuja, has aroused a widespread sentence, with many who accused the interested parties to lower the educational standards to a minimum of all time.

Although Jamb facilitated the meeting, his chancellor, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, clarified that the interruption signs were jointly approved by the deputy chancellers, rectors, provosts and other garments of the tertiary institutions present at the session.

“The minimum eligible scores for admissions for the next academic session were set at 150 for universities, 100 for the Polytechnics and the Universities of education and 140 for colleges of nursing sciences,” said Oloyede during the meeting.

Public anger for “academic collapse‘

The decision triggered a storm of fire on social media, with many users on X (previously Twitter) who accuse the educational authorities of normalizing mediocrity.

“Establishing 150 as a university cut-off is a strong declaration that education in Nigeria is dying,” he published a user, Toheeb Alim. “Is a national emergency.”

Another user, Immaculate, asked for a drastic intervention: “There is no hope. The education sector is bleeding and beyond the reform”.

Baby Girllola added: “Jamb’s chancellor should resign. This is a national embarrassment”.

I suspect surrounding the top utme marker

In an even more surprising revelation, Prof. Oloyede revealed that the Council is investigating the candidate with the highest score in the unified Tertiary Registration exam of 2025 (UTME) for suspicions of imitation.

During the detention in the name of the candidate, the chancellor said that the preliminary results suggest that the possibility that a mercenary is used to take the examination on behalf of the candidate.

“This is not the first time that we discover such cases,” he said, adding that the advice leaves nothing intent on verifying the authenticity of the result.

Staff of Jamb Arrested, 3,300 candidates under the probe

In the state of Ogun, no less than 11 members of Jamb staff have been arrested and currently they face a judicial procedure for an alleged involvement in the negligence of the exams.

Prof. Oloyede also revealed that 3,300 candidates at national level are under investigation for various infringements, including falsification of results and imitation.

In Katsina, the police accused two suspicions – Bolanwu Emmanuel and Ibrahim Abdulaziz – in front of a federal high court for alleged imitation during the Utme of 2025.

Police prosecutor Abdussalam Danmaidaki told the Court that Emmanuel contracted Abdulaziz to write the exam for him using his recording number at the Zee Alpha International School, works.

The offense contravene sections 4 (2) (a) (b) and 4 (3) (c) of the examination melpracctice act, cap E15, laws of the Nigeria Federation, 2004. Both suspicions declared themselves not guilty and the case was updated to 18 July.

Sector in crisis

With the controversy of Cut-Off of Admission, the suspected fraud of the results and the repression in progress on negligence, the trust in the Nigeria tertiary education system is eroded.

Stakeholders, students and parents now ask for urgent reforms, while some claim that Jamb’s chancellor and key educational politicians must take responsibility for rot in the system.

“This could be a decisive moment,” said a Times education analyst.

“If this crisis is not addressed decisively, the integrity of the entire superior education system of Nigeria could be lost.”

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