The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suspended the accounts of the prospective students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) who dragged the admission body to court over alleged irregularities in the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The board suspended the students’ accounts on its portal despite an Ex Parte order issued by the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, Enugu state capital, in a suit filed by the students against JAMB, UNILAG and OAU.
The suspension of the students’ accounts by JAMB was made known in a post on Friday by an X (formerly Twitter) user and chief executive officer of Educare, Alex Onyia, @winexviv.
Attached with a screenshot of the suspended account of one of the affected students, Monsura Aliat Aduragbemi, Onyia wrote, “I’m sad! JAMB has suspended the accounts of the students that we raised a petition with against UNILAG and OAU.
“The same OAU and UNILAG who claimed to not have received the Motion Ex-Parte have gone to Enugu State Federal High Court to appeal. This is wickedness.”
Onyia had accused both institutions of wrongly flagging candidates for malpractice and mismatched scores due to a bug in their systems.
He said he had compiled 752 reports from candidates allegedly affected by the glitch.
“UNILAG, OAU and UI are toiling with the destinies of young Nigerians,” Onyia had reportedly said.
“If nothing is done quickly, we will take up legal action against them. There was a major bug and glitch with the Web Test software that affected the students.”
Bellnews also gathered that Justice Mabel Segun-Bello of the Federal High Court in Enugu ordered the suspension of the 2025/2026 admission processes at OAU and UNILAG, following the suit filed by the aggrieved Post-UTME candidates.
The order, delivered on September 30, 2025, restrained the two universities and JAMB from releasing or approving admission lists until the matter has been determined.
While the matter was adjourned to October 28, 2025, for hearing, the admission body has suspended the affected students.
The students, Chibuzor Success, Oyeleye Zainab Ayomide, Adedeji John Samuel, Monsura Aliat Aduragbemi, and Bassey Daniel Nsikak, through their Enugu-based legal representative, F.K. Nnadi and Co., had filed the suit on behalf of themselves and other affected candidates, citing irregularities in their Post-UTME exercise.
According to a Certified True Copy (CTC) of the judgment reported by PREMIUM TIMES, the candidates prayed the court to issue an interim injunction to restrain the universities from releasing, approving, uploading, or finalizing any admission list for the 2025/2026 academic session pending the hearing and determination of the suit.
The candidates also asked the court to direct JAMB not to process or validate any admission list submitted by the universities pending the determination of the case.
They asked the court to grant “an order of status quo directing the respondents to maintain the current state of affairs and suspend all admission processes relating to the 2025/2026 academic session pending the hearing of the Motion on Notice.”
Justice Segun-Bello, in her ruling, asked all parties to maintain the status quo as regards the admissions processes, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
“Having considered extensively the four prayers of the Applicant, it is important to note that a veritable and triable issue does exist here necessary for both parties to be heard, hence the Applicants are hereby directed to place the Respondents on notice,” the ruling reads.
“This court also further directs that parties should maintain status quo with the current state of affairs being preserved relating to the 2025/2026 academic session admission list and all these pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”
Following the suspension of the students’ JAMB portal accounts, SaharaReporters on Friday contacted the Board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, for comments, including an explanation on why the accounts were suspended.
However, till the time of filing this report, Benjamin has not responded to the message sent to him.