A biology teacher who retook the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has made public his new result The teacher became a viral sensation after initially scoring 159 in the first UTME results released and had threatened to sue Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for the poor score Commenting on his new result, the teacher said he must have scored higher in the previous one, which was marred by human error and technical glitches.
John Felix Obughikem, a biology teacher, has reacted via Facebook after scoring 282 in the UTME resit he sat for.
Felix, a biology teacher for 18 years, had threatened to drag JAMB to court after he got 159 in the first released UTME, a score he thought did not add up.
Teacher’s comment on his UTME resit result
Felix, in a Facebook post, displayed his UTME resit result and opined that he must have scored higher in the previous one if he could pull this number in a resit that he was notified to take within 24 hours.
He took pride in his earlier public outcry, saying it had helped save the younger students who wouldn’t have said anything about their low scores, which JAMB later admitted was due to technical glitches and human error.
Felix appreciated Zeit Gist, other news outlets, the CEO of Educare, Alex Onyia, and all who shared his Facebook posts for contributing to the pressure mounted against JAMB, which led to the resit.
