JAMB, Glitches And An Inter-Tribal War - Thepodiummedia

JAMB, Glitches And An Inter-tribal War - Thepodiummedia

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 19 May, 2025). The enemy is behind everything that happens to anyone here. In electronics and computing, a glitch is an unexpected software or hardware malfunction. Here, you have your phone frozen or your app crashed, you respond cursing the devil that is responsible for the trouble. You suffer network failure, you hit or tap the desk and pray against the spirit of lost connection…

JAMB 2025 exam failure: How a software glitch undermined nearly 400,000 students

In early May 2025, a storm of complaints erupted across Nigeria’s digital space. From Lagos to Enugu, students and parents spoke in angry, desperate tones about the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the high-stakes exam administered by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Their stories, shared online and in interviews, were marked by confusion, tears and in at least one tragic case, death. Behind it all was a cat…