Nigeria, May 17 -- A Kano-based law firm, A.A. Hikima & Co., has criticised the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) over its selective decision to reschedule the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) only for candidates in Lagos and the South-east.

JAMB had on Wednesday announced that 379,997 candidates would retake their UTME across 157 centres in Lagos and the South-east after it found that a glitch affected the Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres, resulting in low scores for the candidates.

But the law firm said it received reports of similar "even more severe technical issues" from candidates in Kano, Kebbi and Sokoto states.

In a Freedom of Information (FOI) letter signed by the firm's principal partner,...