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2025 UTME: No exams held at 6 am — JAMB reacts to Peter Obi’s criticism
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reacted to Peter Obi’s claim that the exam body forced admission-seeking teenagers to travel in the dark to write exams.
In a statement posted via his verified X account on Sunday, Obi accused JAMB of forcing the students to “attend a public examination by 6:30” at unfamiliar locations “in the face of insecurity” in the country.
Describing this as ‘reckless’, the former Governor of Anambra State said some of the students have been reported missing, others involved in accidents and “many more being subjected to unnecessary trauma.”
Obi wrote, “I came across multiple reports of students being asked to attend a public examination by 6:30 am. Teenagers, mostly around 15–17 years old, were forced to travel in the dark, even in the face of insecurity, across dangerous and unfamiliar locations because they wanted to get the basic right of education and sit for JAMB examinations.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/2025-utme-no-exams-held-at-6-am-jamb-reacts-to-peter-obis-criticism/
