Professor Is-haq Oloyede has completed his 10-year tenure as Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), leaving behind reforms that improved transparency, strengthened financial accountability and enhanced the credibility of the nation’s tertiary admissions system.
Oloyede handed over to his successor, Professor Segun Aina, at a ceremony in Abuja, where the Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Olatunji Alausa, and other stakeholders commended his leadership, describing his tenure as “transformational.”
Alausa said Professor Oloyede repositioned JAMB into one of Nigeria’s most respected public institutions through accountability, transparency, innovation and efficient service delivery.
He noted that ‘the former registrar restored public confidence in the admissions process and demonstrated that public institutions could be efficient, technology-driven and citizen-focused.”
The Minister also praised Professor Oloyede’s financial prudence, describing him as “a model of integrity whose commitment to due process transformed JAMB into a shining example of good governance.’
Also the Minister of State for Education, Professor Suwaiba Said Ahmad said “Oloyede’s administration would be remembered as a defining era in Nigeria’s tertiary admissions system.’
She credited his technology-driven reforms with reducing examination malpractice, improving service delivery and strengthening the credibility of the board.
A former Minister of Education, Professor Chinwe Obaji, described Oloyede as “a transformational leader who restored public confidence in JAMB and repositioned the agency through technology and institutional reforms.”
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Egbewole said Oloyede replicated at JAMB the reforms he introduced as Vice-Chancellor, strengthening integrity in the admissions process and demonstrating that honesty and patriotism remain vital to public service.
Speakers at the event said “Oloyede leaves behind a stronger, more credible and technologically advanced JAMB than he inherited in 2016,” citing his record of financial accountability and institutional reforms.
During his tenure, ‘JAMB remitted more than N50 billion to the Nigerian Government, including over N7 billion in a single year, compared with about N50 million reportedly remitted by previous administrations over nearly four decades.
His reforms also strengthened transparency and reshaped Nigeria’s tertiary admissions system.
Others at the event were; the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Egbewole, members of the National Assembly, vice-chancellors, heads of tertiary institutions, JAMB management and staff, family members and friends.
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