Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has called for the scrapping of key federal education and youth development institutions in Nigeria, including the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), and the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND).
Sowore labeled the trio as useless in a statement posted on his official X handle in response to JAMB’s recent admission of technical failures that marred the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
He described the affected agencies as “extracurricular bureaucratic busybodies” and labelled them “useless.”
“It’s time to scrap these extracurricular bureaucratic busybodies — JAMB, NYSC, TETFund, NELFUND — they’re all useless,” Sowore wrote, echoing growing frustration among Nigerians over systemic inefficiencies in the country’s education sector.
His remarks came after JAMB publicly admitted to widespread technical glitches that affected thousands of candidates during the UTME.
Recall that at a press conference in Abuja, JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, acknowledged that malfunctioning servers and score-processing errors disrupted the examination experience for over 370,000 candidates across Lagos and South-East states.
In a rare emotional moment, Oloyede offered a tearful apology to affected students and parents, accepting full responsibility for the lapses. He explained that 65 centres in Lagos (206,610 candidates) and 92 centres in the South-East (173,387 candidates) were affected due to service providers’ failure to update delivery servers ahead of the exams.
“As Registrar of JAMB, I hold myself personally responsible… and I unreservedly apologise for it and the trauma that it has subjected affected Nigerians to,” Oloyede said.
JAMB has since announced a rescheduled UTME sitting for the affected candidates, with messages containing new exam details already being sent.
