A Nigerian software entrepreneur, Alex Onyia, CEO Educare, has been hailed on social media over the academic initiative he introduced for youngsters of his village to enable them to perform excellently in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) UTME of 2024.

Alex revealed on X that 2023 UTME was a disaster for his village students as they recorded 70% failure, with only a few escaping by the whiskers.

Alex, CEO of Educare, said he and his team employed a different approach to solving the UTME problem instead of waiting for the government.

They put the students on intensive morning and evening drills as well as make them take CBT once a month. Alex explained: “We took the challenge upon ourselves for it not to repeat itself again. Every youngster in my village right now is on an intensive morning and evening drilling for next year’s Jamb and they undertake CBT once monthly with large pool of 16 years past questions across different subjects.”

Alex said he noticed they were not computer literate. “One common thing we noticed is that many of the youngsters are alien to computers and can’t even use a mouse nor keyboards. How were they planning to succeed in jamb when they could had probably be using a computer for the first time on Jamb day?”

He further revealed that the target is to less than 1% failure in 2024 UTME and spoke on scholarships for over-performing students. “It’s an eye opener and our mission is for all of them to score above 250. We will be paying for all their jamb exam fees and are also offering full scholarship to everyone that scores 300 and above

See his tweet below: