Legal threats against UNILAG and OAU stem from their withheld Post-UTME scores.

A lawyer named F.K. Nnadi has served pre-action notices on Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, and the University of Lagos, UNILAG, alleging irregularities in the way their 2025 Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) results were conducted and released. The notices, which were signed by Kene Nnadi, the firm’s principal counsel, accused the two institutions of giving some applicants unfairly low scores while hiding the results of others without giving any justification. The firm contended that this could unjustly jeopardize the affected students’ chances of being admitted.In addition to the universities, the law firm petitioned the House of Representatives Committee on Tertiary Education, the National Universities Commission, and the NUC, requesting that they step in and guarantee process transparency. Alex Onyia, CEO of the education technology company Educare, who has frequently expressed doubts about the validity of Post-UTME screening procedures, helped spread the petitions online.
The law firm gave UNILAG 30 days and OAU three months to comply with its demands. It asked both universities to make Post-UTME scripts and marking schemes available, to make all withheld results available, and to give students who are accused of malpractice a chance to defend themselves before disciplinary action is taken.

The notices threatened to take legal action at the Federal High Court to enforce candidates’ rights, including requesting damages, injunctions, and declaratory reliefs, if they did not comply.
According to BASEMEDIA, UNILAG denied that its Post-UTME exercise had any technical issues. Cases reported for malpractice, according to its spokesperson Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, were the result of “clear breaches of examination guidelines,” which were supported by a number of monitoring systems, including video surveillance.

Onyia countered that both schools used the same Post-UTME software, which he said had a bug that incorrectly flagged applicants for malpractice and caused some scores to be mismatched.