Vehicle carrying JAMB candidates crashes in Oyo, 2 killed, 6 injured

2 individuals have lost their lives and 6 injured in a car accident involving candidates on their way to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination in Oyo.

The accident involved a commercial Nissan car which ran into rocks placed as barricades by a construction company near the Ipeba area on the Oyo-Ogbomoso road.

It was gathered that the incident claimed the lives of the driver and a female passenger whose identities has not been revealed.

Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) from the Oolo Unit responded promptly to the emergency by evacuating the injured victims to Bowen University Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso for medical attention.

Similarly, the remains of the deceased were deposited at the morgue of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso.

Eyewitnesses at the scene said the crash happened when the vehicle had a brake failure.

“Fatal accident claimed the life of the students that were going to write JAMB in OGBOMOSO on OYO road, Oyo State,” the video was captioned.

The unidentified man appealed to the management of JAMB to discontinue the practice of posting candidates outside of their localities for the examination.

Earlier, JAMB said it arrested 27 impersonators in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

JAMB has reported that 27 impersonators who were caught have been transferred to the Nigerian police for swift prosecution.

The board also announced that it delisted four Computer-Based Test, CBT centres that had failed to meet the stringent technical standards required for the UTME.

JAMB named the delisted centres as; Adventure Associate, Behind Sheshe Supermarket, Off Hadejia Road, Kano, Kano State;
Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Zaria Road, Naibawa, Kano, Kano State;
Penta M & F Technical Services Ltd, Centre 2, 96km Sokoto-Jega Road, Tambuwal and
Penta M & F Technical Services Ltd, Centre 1, 96km Sokoto-Jega Road, Tambuwal.

“While JAMB commends the 883 centres that have demonstrated exceptional performance, it unequivocally warns that any centre which failed the ethical or technical standards , regardless of ownership, will be blacklisted,” JAMB said in a statement on Friday by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin.

“Candidates who were previously scheduled to take their exams at the delisted centres are urged to urgently reprint their examination notification slips to access their new centres and rescheduled dates. We regret any inconvenience this may cause, but we will not tolerate excuses by candidates who fail to reprint their slip to get their new schedules,” it said.

The board revealed that “As of Friday, 25th April, 2025, over 900,000 candidates have successfully completed the UTME out of the 2,083,600 registered for the 2025 examination.”