Nigeria, May 16 -- By the time this essay is published, candidates from Lagos and Southeast Nigeria billed to rewrite the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam would probably havestartedreceivingtheir result notifications and have some relief from Prof. Ishaq Oloyede's initial 'human error' of catastrophethat has left most of them traumatized and suicidal; an error with long-lasting catastrophic effectson its victims but which Oloyede hoped to wash away withhistears of forced penitence.

This ugly episode which would have denied otherwise qualified candidates, especially those from the Southeast, admission to higher institutions of learning would have been more easily pardonable if it was the first time Oloyede's JAMB was showing inexp...