A man has shared his story about how the Joint Administration and Matriculation Board sold his results to another candidate thereby denying him making him miss admission for one year.
The letter is his contribution @AishaYesufu response to @Shehusani post which appeared to be defending JAMB’s errors in the 2025 JAMB exams.
IIn fact, his letter is addressed to Aisha Yesufu.
In his X account @TrndfussionNG also known a Preacher, wrote:
Re: My JAMB story
1. I hope this message meets you well.
In the early 2000s, I was a victim of @JAMBHQ fraud. I sat for the exam, registered properly, and had my slip number in hand. *2341868J* (a number and letter omitted for security reasons)
2. But when results came out, mine was “withheld.” It was a crushing blow after years of preparation.
3. Two weeks later, my result was released—but under another person’s name. The score remained, but the name belonged to someone else entirely, someone who had applied to study Medicine at the University of Calabar.
4. I kept buying scratch cards, hoping each time that the system would correct itself. It never did.
5. In desperation, my parents flew to @JAMBHQ headquarters in Abuja. After some investigation, JAMB officials admitted that the slip number was indeed mine.
6. They quietly suggested that someone within the organisation must have sold my result. They begged my parents not to escalate the matter, saying it could turn into a scandal. They told them it was “God’s plan,” that I was still young, and that I’d do better in the next JAMB.
7. My parents didn’t buy into that. But they were also afraid. They reasoned that if they challenged JAMB publicly, I might be blacklisted—forever unable to secure admission through that route. So they made the painful decision to let it go.
8. That was how I lost a year of my life. A year that felt like four, when you count the three years I had spent preparing from SS1. I got no apology. No compensation. Not even a “thank you” for our silence.
9. When the Mmesoma case surfaced, I didn’t rush to judgment. I watched that video of her many times, studied the most subtle signs, her demeanour, her facial cues (I must state that I have some forensic training)
9. I saw a confused girl, not a liar. When I later heard that she and her family had been taken to the DSS and that, under intense pressure—possibly at gunpoint—she admitted to falsifying her result, I flinched.
10. Because if I were under gunpoint, I too would have denied my own story. I would have said anything just to survive the moment.
11. People need to understand: result racketeering in @JAMBHQ is not new. That institution, while claiming credibility, has carried a quiet rot for decades. My case happened during the Obasanjo administration. It was wrong then, and it is still wrong now.
12. JAMB needs an overhaul—comprehensive, transparent, and long overdue.
13. I’m sharing this because there are others like me who’ve remained silent, who’ve buried their pain for fear of reprisal. I want to invite them—under this tweet or elsewhere—to share their stories. Let’s stop treating these things as isolated incidents. The pattern has been there. We’ve just been told to look away.
14. Thank you, Aisha, for continuing to speak when so many stay silent. May our collective voices one day build the just Nigeria we all deserve.
Warm regards,
Preacher
15-05-2025
