Draining Jamb’s swamp? By Erasmus ikhide

Professor Ishaq OloyEde Management of Joint Administration and Matriculation (Jamb) Purge was overlooked for a long time before the recent technical problems of 2025 which hit almost 380,000 candidates in Lagos and in the South -est.

Professor Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar Jamb, admitted errors in the examination process, citing a failure in the distribution of classification software updated by one of Jamb services providers. In addition to the excuses of Registrar, the need to review the key issues that surround is necessary
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The problems occurred due to the non -correct updating of some delivery servers, leading to incorrect results for candidates in 157 centers. Despite Jamb’s quality guarantee mechanisms, the error was not detected before issuing results.

Privileged sources reveal that the council’s response to the crisis was initially slow, exacerbating the trauma and the inconvenience caused to the affected candidates. It is obvious that avoiding these catastrophic tragedies, which led to a student to commit suicide because of Jamb’s negligence must be interrupted immediately.

I therefore recommend that Jamb improves his quality control by strengthening the quality guarantee mechanisms to detect errors before the results are released. To this is added the improvement of its service provider. This is ensuring that service providers are held responsible for their work and that Jamb has adequate supervision, including a backup strategy to support the technical falls of the primary network supplier.

To tell the truth, the direction should establish a plan to respond quickly and effectively to the crises, minimizing the trauma and the inconveniences to candidates and parents who have worked every day for their success. In addition, there must be an improvement in the commitment that promotes transparent communication with candidates, parents and stakeholders during crises to minimize trauma.

Over time, Jamb seems to have missed as the general collector of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, declaring billions of Naira collected by the examination taxes as profits from hardships instead of investing in technological updates of infrastructure to prevent technical glitches and guarantee insignificant examination processes.

Government roles in the education of its citizens should normally include funding and allocation of resources for public education, infrastructures and resources. Governments of all levels must create and implement policies, standards and educational regulations in the interest of citizens.

This also includes the same access to quality education for all citizens, regardless of the state, position or socio -economic state. THE
Governments must monitor and evaluate the quality of education, establish standard for the curriculum, teaching and evaluation.

Finally, the government must, for obligation reasons, provide training, support and resources for teachers, including encouraging and promoting innovation and total improvement in education standards throughout the Council.

By implementing these recommendations, Jamb can “drain the swamp” to provide a more efficient, effective examination process and to candidates as the march for total literacy advances.

● Erasmus ikhide contributed with this piece through: [email protected]

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