Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and presidential candidate, has criticized major federal education agencies like JAMB, NYSC, TETFund, and NELFUND for being “useless” and “extracurricular bureaucratic busybodies.”
Sowore made the statement on Wednesday via his official X handle while reacting to JAMB’s recent acknowledgment of technical malfunctions that affected the outcome of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The outspoken activist criticized the agencies for failing in their core mandates, citing persistent inefficiencies, lack of transparency, and poor service delivery.
“It’s time to scrap these extracurricular bureaucratic busybodies—JAMB, NYSC, TETFund, NELFUND—they’re all useless,” Sowore declared.
His comment comes on the heels of a major outcry over technical glitches during the 2025 UTME, which led to widespread complaints from candidates and parents.
JAMB had earlier announced that approximately 379,997 candidates from Lagos and the South-East states would have to retake the examination due to disruptions linked to server failures and system breakdowns.
JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, accepted full responsibility for the failures.
In a rare emotional moment, he offered a tearful public apology to affected candidates and their families, stating that the exam body had let them down.
“In simple terms, while 65 centres (206,610 candidates) were affected in the Lagos zone, 92 centres (173,387 candidates) in the Owerri zone, covering the South-East states, were also impacted,” Oloyede explained.
He attributed the problems to a failure by a contracted service provider to update certain delivery servers.
Despite Oloyede’s apology and plans to reschedule the examination for this weekend, Sowore insisted the incident highlights the broader systemic rot in the nation’s educational and youth development institutions.