JAMB Fires Back at Candidate’s Tweet Over UTME Score Threat

• The JAMB has sparked controversy due to its response to a candidate who misspoken the term ‘punish.’

• The 2025 UTME examination saw 1.5 million candidates participate, as announced by the organization.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stirred reactions online following its response to a social media post from a 2025 UTME candidate who issued a bold threat over his expected results.

JAMB recently revealed that over 1.5 million candidates took part in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). However, one of the candidates, identified as Expensive on X (formerly Twitter), expressed frustration, demanding a high score and invoking divine retribution if he didn’t meet the mark.

He wrote:

“If my score no pass 200, God go punish una 💯.”

In response, JAMB’s official handle replied:

“Mind your launguage.”

While the response was likely intended to caution against rude remarks, many netizens were quick to point out the board’s ironic spelling error in the word “language.” The moment quickly went viral, with users mocking the exchange and questioning the professionalism of the reply.

The exchange has since sparked debate online, with some defending the candidate’s frustration and others calling for more respectful engagement on both sides.

Reacting to the post…

@Sarah Ese asserted, “This one can’t be student.Which student go get mind go insult their destiny helper, even if he no dey fear grace, he supposed fear disgrace 😂”.

@Segun Akinola remarked, “That JAMB handler cannot be less than 55 in age and most likely a woman. She cant imagine someone who is likely to be her grandson’s age mate sounding rude. That generation doesn’t joke with respect 🤩”.

@Angela wrote, “This generation sha, how can a student get mind send JAMB this kind message? Your name na failure na!”.

@Empressive queried, “The jamb handler cannot even spell Expensive correctly how will he or she calculate scores correctly?”.