BREAKING: Tinubu appoints Prof Segun Aina as new JAMB registrar

BREAKING: Tinubu appoints Prof Segun Aina as new JAMB registrar

ABUJA – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of 39-year-old Professor Segun Aina as the new Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), signaling the end of Professor Is-haq Oloyede’s decade-long tenure.

The appointment, announced in a statement issued late Wednesday by the Director of Information at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, confirmed that Professor Oloyede’s tenure will officially expire on July 31, 2026. Professor Aina, a Professor of Computer Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, is set to make history as the youngest Registrar ever to lead the nation’s premier examination and matriculation body. He holds a Doctorate in Digital Signal Processing from Loughborough University, United Kingdom.

President Tinubu, in the appointment letter, tasked the new Registrar with leveraging his extensive background in engineering and information technology to build upon the transformative reforms introduced by his predecessor. Under Professor Oloyede’s watch, JAMB became globally recognized for its deployment of the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) and biometric verification, drastically reducing admission fraud and the incidence of fake results. Observers believe Prof. Aina’s core competence in computer engineering signals the government’s intention to further digitize the admission process, enhance cybersecurity, and introduce next-generation innovations.

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Furthermore, Professor Aina is not a stranger to high-stakes examinations. He brings a wealth of practical experience from previous roles with the National Examinations Council (NECO) and the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB). Interestingly, the new JAMB boss began his career with the very organization he is now set to lead—serving as a corps member during his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) year.

As Professor Is-haq Oloyede prepares to leave office after two terms of five years each, he is widely celebrated for clearing the backlog of unclaimed admission spaces, blocking financial leakages that saw JAMB’s remittances to the federal purse rise from N3 million to over N50 billion, and sanitizing the system of fake ‘cut-off’ marks. Stakeholders in the education sector have described the transition as “a changing of the guard from consolidation to innovation.” Professor Aina is expected to assume office immediately following the formal handover on August 1, 2026.

BREAKING: Tinubu appoints Prof Segun Aina as new JAMB registrar