President Bola Tinubu has appointed 39-year-old computer engineering professor Segun Aina as the new Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, effective August 1, 2026, to succeed the outgoing head, Professor Ishaq Oloyede.
President Bola Tinubu has appointed Professor Segun Aina as the new Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Aina will succeed the long-serving incumbent Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, whose successful tenure at the helm of the national examination body is set to officially expire on July 31, 2026. The high-profile academic appointment was formally made public in a press statement issued on Thursday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, signaling a strategic transition in the administration of Nigeria’s tertiary admissions.
According to the presidency, the incoming JAMB boss is a professor of Computer Engineering at the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, and brings a wealth of technological and administrative experience to the position. His academic background specializes in digital infrastructure, national examination systems, and public-sector institutional reforms, which are viewed as critical assets for the continuous digitization of the unified tertiary matriculation examinations. Highlighting the young academic’s qualifications, the official statement noted: “Professor Aina, who will be 40 in July, is a distinguished academic and systems expert with extensive experience in national examination systems, digital infrastructure, and public-sector institutional reform.”
The transition comes at a time when the federal government is heavily prioritizing cyber-security, data integrity, and tech-driven solutions within its educational agencies to curb examination malpractice and streamline candidate placements. Outgoing Registrar Oloyede, who has driven historic transparency and multi-billion naira revenue generation frameworks at JAMB since his first appointment in 2016, is expected to hand over operational leadership smoothly to Aina on August 1, 2026. Educational stakeholders have already begun expressing optimism that the appointment of a relatively young systems expert will further accelerate technological innovations in Nigeria’s entry-level academic assessments.
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