Oyo State, Nigeria – Tragedy struck on Saturday morning as an auto accident on the Oyo-Ogbomoso road claimed the lives of an unspecified number of students traveling to their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) centers in Ogbomoso.
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According to eyewitness accounts, the commercial bus conveying the candidates suffered brake failure, leading to a loss of control and the subsequent devastating crash. A video circulating online corroborated the incident, stating that the victims were en route to write their JAMB examination in Ogbomoso.
Efforts to obtain confirmation and details from the Police Public Relations Officer, Oyo State Command, Adewale Osifeso, were unsuccessful as calls and messages went unanswered.
In a separate development, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced the arrest of 27 individuals for impersonation during the ongoing UTME. The apprehended individuals have been handed over to the Nigerian Police for prosecution.
Furthermore, JAMB disclosed the delisting of four Computer-Based Test (CBT) centers for failing to meet the required technical standards. The affected centers are Adventure Associate and Saadatu Rimi College of Education, both located in Kano State, and Penta M & F Technical Services Ltd Centres 1 and 2, situated along the Sokoto-Jega Road in Tambuwal.
JAMB, through its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, commended the 883 centers that met the required standards while sternly warning that any center found to have violated ethical or technical standards would face blacklisting, regardless of ownership.
Candidates scheduled to take their examinations at the delisted centers are urged to urgently reprint their examination notification slips to ascertain their new centers and rescheduled dates. JAMB emphasized that failure to reprint the slips to obtain the new schedules would not be accepted as an excuse for missing the examination.
The board also provided an update on the examination progress, stating that over 900,000 candidates out of the 2,083,600 registered for the 2025 UTME had successfully completed their examinations as of Friday, April 25, 2025.
This tragic accident serves as a painful reminder of the risks associated with road travel and casts a shadow over the ongoing UTME.
