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 made the statement on his official X (formerly Twitter) 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. 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.
