The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has borrowed the slogan of the University of Ilorin of ‘Better by Far’ to assess the performance of his staff carrying out the ongoing 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Oloyede who spoke to journalists in Ilorin shortly after his monitoring tour to some CBT registration centres said: “Going round, I’m very proud of those on the fields, CBT centres, my staff and everyone involved. I think it’s better by far.
“People know we’ll not take anything less than standard and they’ve done very well. We also thank security agencies. They’ve assisted us so well”.
So far, no fewer than 420,674 candidates have being registered for the 2025/2026 JAMB exams as at Monday afternoon.
The JAMB Registrar, Emeritus Professor Is-haq Oloyede, said that so far too no fewer than
32,435 candidates have registered for the exams as at Monday afternoon.
He also said that 124,632 candidates have entered for the mock JAMB exams, putting the number of trial testing candidates at 331 so far.
Professor Oloyede said that the exam body has a target of two million candidates for the exams.
The JAMB registrar, who put the number of underaged registrants (candidates who would be less than 16 years by October) at 4,997 as at Monday afternoon, lambasted those he described as selfish parents that crave to make their children educational pursuit as their victory medal.
“You can see how we’re deceiving ourselves in this country. Before the maximum figure would be about 300. In a situation when we’ve just started in five days and we have a total number 4996 underaged registrants. By the end of today, they will be more than 5000.
Many of these parents have misdirected their children. They want to use their children’s early education to decorate their CVs.
Answering questions on reasons for allowing underaged candidates in the exams, the jamb registrar said that all underaged candidates are made to sign indemnity form or undertaking to meet up with academic ability or be sanctioned of such fails to meet up with claimed exceptional intelligence.
The jamb registrar however said that six individuals engaged by jamb from various institutions in the country have been blacklisted for life from participating in jamb conducted examinations.
He said that the people were caught in alleged exam malpractice, adding that we have their particulars. He also said one senior university official is being prosecuted for exam related crime, adding that others are under investigation.
The JAMB registrar said that, earlier in the registration exercise, 10 institutions were caught registering candidates in the night.
After his visits to CBT centres to monitor the registration for the 2025/2026 JAMB registration, the JAMB registrar said that the exercise was going excellently well in all centres.
“Going round, I’m very proud of those on the fields, CBT centres, my staff and everyone involved. I think it’s better by far. People know we’ll not take anything less than standard and they’ve done very well. We also thank security agencies. They’ve assisted us so well”.
