A Nigerian teacher has expressed concern over a female student who has refused to eat following her disappointing performance in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The teacher, Obanuso Temitope Obanuso, who coaches students for the exam, shared in a Facebook post that the girl has gone without food for 48 hours due to her poor results.
According to him, the student is appealing for a review of her scores and is so confident in her abilities that she said she should be punished if the results are re-evaluated and she still scores below 300.
The teacher said ...
"I have 6 students who scored close to 300 last year, being sent results below 160. These students are serious and brilliant students. They gave their best. One of them, has not eaten for 48 hours. She has been pleading with me to help contact JAMB that if they check her work and finds her score less than 300, she should be penalised because she knew what she did."
The teacher also revealed that he has received complaints from numerous parents whose children are experiencing similarly poor UTME results, suggesting that the issue may be more widespread than initially believed.
He added ...
"I have dozens of parents and students in my dm. They are helpless. How do you explain students dropping from 270 or 280 in 2024 to 123 and 132 in 2025? Everyone is thinking the mass failure is due to unseriousness. It is a lie. Nigerian students are brilliant. Are students more serious in Europe and America? In which nation of the world are social media and phone fondling not prevalent among young people? Go and see our students' performance in international exams and contests. It is not everyone who is unserious. Many of these students are more serious than those young adults criticising them."
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Omolola Prosper said: "I think there's a whole lot of mess with JAMB this year...How to get justice yen na ni Koko bayi cos this our Nigeria ehn.."
Simeon Olukunle said: "Until Nigeria happens to you, you will think other people complaining are lazy and against the sitting government. Like we all know Jamb being an agency of government will always win, when I heard about the results initially and people blaming poor reading culture all I did was laugh."
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