Nollywood actress Mary Njoku has queried the essence of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, in gaining admission into Nigerian Universities.
She wondered why the Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, isn’t enough to gain admission into institutions of higher learning.
Mary Njoku stated that she doesn’t understand the need for JAMB and post-UTME when the SSCE proves that candidates have completed secondary school.
On his Instastory, she wrote,
“Why is it necessary to take the JAMB exam to gain admission into universities? Isn’t the SSCE sufficient?
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“I don’t understand the need for JAMB + post-JAMB when the SSCE already shows we’ve completed secondary school.”
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, recently sparked outrage following the mass failure of candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME.
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Following the outrage, JAMB admitted that there were errors in the results of some candidates who took the examinations, and apologised to the affected candidates.
JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, said the board has decided that all candidates affected in 157 out of 882 centres will be contacted to retake their examinations starting Friday, 16 May.
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A total of 379,997 candidates across the 157 centres in Lagos and the South-east would retake their examinations.
19-year-old Opesusi Faith Timilehin has committed suicide over a low JAMB score
The deceased took ‘Push Out’ rodent poison on Monday after scoring 190 in the just-released Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result.
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Opesusi Faith Timilehin, from Abeokuta, lived with her elder sibling at Odogunyan in Ikorodu, Lagos State.
Neighbours and residents mourned the loss of Timilehin, whom they described as “gentle and humble.”
An eyewitness said Timilehin later confessed on the way to the hospital to having taken poison at home before coming to her sister’s office.
She was said to have a better JAMB score than her current 190 in the previous JAMB result in 2024.
Ironically, JAMB gave her provisional admission just about 30 minutes after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital in Odogunyan.
