The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has strongly criticised lawmakers from the Southeast region and academic staff at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), for calling on the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, to resign.
This follows technical issues that disrupted the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and led to the rescheduling of examinations for nearly 380,000 candidates across 157 centres, mainly in Lagos and the Southeast.
Professor Oloyede acknowledged the glitches and, in response to complaints from candidates who claimed their scores did not accurately reflect their performance, JAMB decided to reschedule the examinations for affected students.
Candidates were informed through text messages, email, JAMB profiles, and phone calls, and the retake occurred on May 16 and 17.
Despite this corrective action, Southeast lawmakers and academics demanded Oloyede’s resignation, citing regional bias since most affected centres were in their area.
MURIC, however, dismissed these calls as politically and ethnically motivated. In a statement released on May 23 by its director, Professor Ishaq
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