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Alarming! 15 students, school director unreachable 24hrs after leaving Onitsha for JAMB exam in Imo
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Fifteen students who were rescheduled to write their JAMB exam have reportedly gone missing after leaving Onitsha for their exam center in Okigwe, Imo State.
The alarming incident was shared on X (formerly Twitter), sparking widespread concern online.
According to a chat shared by social media influencer @UchePOkoye, the students departed around 6:30 a.m. the previous day but have yet to return or be contacted.
Efforts to reach all 15 candidates, including their school director, have been unsuccessful as their phone numbers remain unreachable.
The message read: “Good evening sir, my classmates that their JAMB got rescheduled and they had papers yesterday by 6:30am at Okigwe, Imo State have been missing 😭😭, 15 of them, none of their numbers is reachable including our school director 😭, they left from Onitsha.”
In response, @UchePOkoye posted: “15 school kids entered a chartered bus from Onitsha yesterday to Okigwe, Imo State to write their rescheduled JAMB and have been missing since yesterday. The school children, the school owner, his wife, the driver — all unreachable. @JAMBHQ you will never go scot-free!”
The post has since garnered significant attention, with concerned individuals flooding the comment section to express their worry and demand immediate action.
See some reactions below:
@Daniel_Elviss: “Why didn’t they just remark the sheets, or rather give an average score to all the students affected, as they did in 2017? This is the same rubbish NYSC keeps on doing, posting when they know there’s insecurity in that state. This country’s anyhowness is unmatched.”
@jay_den111: “I don’t understand, why did they send people to different states instead of the ones they originally registered in? Gosh.”
@MrJah18327: “JAMB must be stopped in Igbo land or boycotted. Let our South East children formulate our own exam to enter a tertiary institution.”
@_Ijebuguy: “When you have finished with your movie, you will tell your people to release them from where they are keeping them. You guys are really trying to ‘finish ’ the registrar, just bcos of Mmesoma case. God go punish una.”
@Echeeasy: “Sometimes I blame parents why allowing your kids to leave Onitsha and went to write JAMB in Okigwe in spite of the insecurity in our region. Very painful.”
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the top scorers in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), with a candidate seeking admission into the University of Lagos emerging as the overall best performer.
The announcement was made on Monday during the 2026 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions held in Abuja.
According to JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, the highest scorer in this year’s examination is Owoeye Jesudunsin, an indigene of Ekiti State who sat for the examination in Ogun State.
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Jesudunsin scored 372 out of the possible 400 marks and applied to study Medicine and Surgery at the University of Lagos.
Her score falls just three points short of the highest UTME score recorded in 2025, when Chinedu Okeke from Anambra State scored 375.
Coming second in the 2026 rankings is Ikenna Enwere from Imo State, who scored 370. He selected Nile University as his first-choice institution and intends to study Computer Science.
Ayomide Bamisile from Ondo State followed closely with a score of 369. He applied to study Software Engineering at the Federal University of Technology Akure.
JAMB also released the full list of top-performing candidates during the policy meeting, which brought together heads of tertiary institutions and key stakeholders in the education sector to discuss admission guidelines for the 2026 academic session.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will hold its 2026 Policy Meeting on Admissions on Monday, May 11, where key decisions, including the minimum Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) cut-off marks for the 2026/2027 academic session, will be determined.
This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin.
According to him, the meeting will take place at the Body of Benchers Auditorium, Plot 688, Institute and Research District, FCC Phase III, Jabi, Abuja.
Benjamin added that key policy directions will be unveiled by the Minister of Education, Maruf Olatunji Alausa.
He said, “The Board’s annual policy meeting on admissions is a crucial annual gathering where stakeholders decide minimum tolerable UTME marks, admission guidelines, and policies for tertiary institutions.
“Furthermore, the meeting is expected to, in particular, formally set the tone for the 2026/2027 admission exercise while impressing it on attendees the need to adhere strictly to stipulated guidelines.
“Attendees at the 2026 meeting would include critical stakeholders such as vice-chancellors, rectors, provosts, registrars and their admission officers.
“Others are regulatory bodies ranging from the National Universities Commission (NUC), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), to the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), among others.”
The statement also noted that goodwill messages are expected from agencies including the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), and other stakeholders.
Benjamin disclosed that the event will feature the 6th edition of the National Tertiary Admissions Performance-Merit Awards (NATAP-M), aimed at promoting compliance with admission guidelines and improving standards in tertiary education.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that results for candidates who sat for the first day of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be released before midnight on Friday.
This was contained in a statement shared via X, JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin.
The post reads “RELEASE OF RESULTS FOR THE first day of the 2026 UTME .
This is to inform all candidates who sat for the 2026 UTME on Thursday, 16th April 2026, that their results will be released today before midnight.
“An official announcement will be made to the public and posted on this page as soon as the results are available.
Recall that the examination began on the 16th of April 20226.
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