Not Too Young To Perform (NTYTP), a youth-driven leadership development and advocacy organization with active structures across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), strongly condemns the recent comments made by the Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, in which he astonishingly described the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) mass failure as an “achievement” for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
As a non-governmental organization committed to promoting responsible, ethical, and visionary leadership, NTYTP views the minister’s statement as an appalling display of insensitivity, incompetence, and politicization of a deeply troubling national crisis.
“It is unfortunately pathetic that under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, almost every national issue is shamelessly politicized,” said Arc Bello Muhammed, National Secretary of NTYTP. “For the Minister of Education to downplay the catastrophic failure rate recorded in the recent JAMB examinations and paint it as an achievement is nothing short of a national disgrace. Instead of taking urgent, proactive steps to address the systemic decay in our educational sector, the minister has chosen to defend failure and celebrate collapse.”
NTYTP emphasizes that the crisis in Nigeria’s education system is not confined to examination halls or test results. The rot is deeply rooted in the deplorable state of public schools across the country.
“Infrastructure is dilapidated, leaving students to learn in overcrowded, unsafe, and poorly equipped classrooms. Admissions processes are marred by corruption, nepotism, and lack of merit. Teachers are overworked, underpaid, and often lack access to modern instructional materials, training, or technology required to deliver 21st-century education, the group noted.
As an advocacy group that engages young people across grassroots and urban areas, NTYTP says it understands firsthand that national examinations like JAMB, WAEC, or NECO only reflect the deep-seated neglect of the entire education value chain. Without adequately funded schools, motivated teachers, and students who are nourished, supported, and inspired to learn, no amount of posturing or propaganda can rescue the sector.
The group calls on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his administration to urgently shift focus from hollow rhetoric to meaningful action, invest in the rebuilding of Nigeria’s educational institutions, and restore faith in a system that has long been abandoned.
