There was excitement among educationists and Education Ministry officials following the news that a 16 years old Bayelsa boy, Egba Osiovie Diekime scored an aggregate of 360 in the 2025 UTME.
Egba Osiovie Diekime scored English: 79, Physics: 98, Biology 85 and Chemistry’s: 98.
To value this score by Osiovie, according to reports, out of the UTME examination, 1.5m students score below 200.
He is an Indigene of Famgbe community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the State and the current holder of the 2025 NCDMB/NTA Science Quiz competition/Award trophy.
He is an SS 2 student and Head Boy of Best Breed International Schools, Okaka, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and made 4 As and 4 Bs in GCE.
A Secondary school teacher, James Anglesey, who brought the performance to the notice of media practitioners, commended the parents of the 16 years old boy and described the support of the teachers and parents as commendable.
Reacting, Barr. Claudius Egba, the proud father, described the performance of his son “worthy”, saying “I’m proud of his performance and desire to be a top notch consultant neurologist.”
” l urge parents to be more committed in the upbringing of their children to make the society a better haven.”
Meanwhile, it was reported that a Nineteen-year-old Opesusi Faith Timilehin on Monday took ‘Push Out’ rodent poison for scoring 190 in the just-released Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result.
Timilehin, from Abeokuta, lived at Odogunyan in Ikorodu, Lagos State, with her elder sibling.
It was learnt that neighbours and residents mourned Timilehin, whom they described as “gentle and humble.”
A family source said the deceased, who applied for Microbiology, also sat for the same examination last year.
“She said her last year’s result was better than this year’s,” one of her close allies (name withheld) told our correspondent on the phone.
According to information, neighbours started noticing unusual behaviour in her when Timilehin, at her elder sister’s office, demanded palm oil to douse the pains she was experiencing after taking the poison at home.
Her sister, who initially didn’t know the cause, ignored her, only to later raise an alarm that attracted sympathisers to the scene.
An eyewitness said Timilehin later confessed on the way to the hospital to having taken poison at home before coming to her sister’s office.
She was said to have scored more than her current 190 in the previous JAMB result in 2024.
Ironically, JAMB gave her provisional admission just about 30 minutes after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital in Odogunyan.
“The shocking revelation is that she was given an admission message via her Gmail, immediately after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital, Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos,” the source stated.
Timilehin’s parents, on hearing the sad news, arrived in Ikorodu, allegedly to pick her remains back to Abeokuta for burial, leaving the residents to rain curses on JAMB.
In another development, The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has admitted to errors in the just released 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
Oloyede broke into tears as he apologized for the errors in the examination on Wednesday during a briefing in Abuja.
“I apologize for the trauma caused the candidates,” he said.
The board said a total of 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South East geographical zone and Lagos were affected by the glitches in the results.
“206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos and 92 centres in Owerri zone comprising of 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East were affected,” it said.
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