A concerned Nigerian teacher, Obanuso Temitope Obanuso, has taken to social media to raise alarm over the emotional distress of one of his female students following her poor performance in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), commonly referred to as JAMB.
According to a post shared on Facebook, the teacher revealed that the student has refused to eat for 48 hours, consumed by anguish and disbelief over the result she received. Obanuso, who coaches students for JAMB, explained that the girl is not only devastated but is also pleading for a re-evaluation of her score, asserting her confidence in her performance to the extent that she has vowed to accept punishment if a reassessment proves her wrong.
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Obanuso wrote: “I have 6 students who scored close to 300 last year, being sent results below 160. These students are serious and brilliant students. They gave their best. One of them has not eaten for 48 hours. She has been pleading with me to help contact JAMB that if they check her work and find her score less than 300, she should be penalised because she knew what she did.”
He further elaborated on the wider implications of the situation, highlighting that he has received a barrage of complaints from numerous parents and students who are expressing similar concerns. Many of them claim that their children, who had previously excelled, saw dramatic drops in their UTME scores without any reasonable explanation.
“I have dozens of parents and students in my dm. They are helpless. How do you explain students dropping from 270 or 280 in 2024 to 123 and 132 in 2025? Everyone is thinking the mass failure is due to unseriousness. It is a lie. Nigerian students are brilliant. Are students more serious in Europe and America? In which nation of the world are social media and phone fondling not prevalent among young people? Go and see our students’ performance in international exams and contests. It is not everyone who is unserious. Many of these students are more serious than those young adults criticising them,” he added.
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Omolola Prosper said: “I think there’s a whole lot of mess with JAMB this year…How to get justice yen na ni Koko bayi cos this our Nigeria ehn..”
Simeon Olukunle said: “Until Nigeria happens to you, you will think other people complaining are lazy and against the sitting government. Like we all know Jamb being an agency of government will always win, when I heard about the results initially and people blaming poor reading culture all I did was laugh.”
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