Nigeria, May 17 -- Let me make a confession that Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, the registrar and chief executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has been a personal friend of about 50 years. I need to make this disclosure, so that no one will accuse me of writing this testimonial, without the disclosure of our affinity.

Mr Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede is one of very few individuals for whom I can swear with the Holy Quran about their honesty, integrity, transparency, incorruptibility, human empathy and selflessness.

It was unfortunate that a technical glitch engendered by third parties negatively affected the conduct of the 2025 JAMB examination in some places in the South-East and Lagos. This unfortunate inciden...