*Appointee Youngest Engineer in JAMB History
By Olawale Lamina
President Bola Tinubu has appointed 39-year-old Professor Segun Aina as the new Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, taking over the reigns from Professor Ishaq Oloyede, whose tenure ends on July 31, 2026.
President Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga announced the new appointment in a statement issued on Thursday.
Describing the predecessor, the statement acknowledged that Oloyede’s tenure at JAMB was, by most accounts, transformational. The President commended Oloyede, pointing out that within three years of assuming office in 2016, he turned around the board’s operations and finances. Remittances to the Federal Government rose sharply from less than ₦50 million between 1978 and 2016, to ₦7.8 billion in 2017 alone.
Onanuga also stated that, from 2016 to 2026, JAMB remitted ₦20.7 billion in operating surplus and funded physical and human development projects from internally generated revenue.
Professor Aina’s briefs
Aina is a professor of Computer Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, with expertise in digital infrastructure, national examination systems and institutional reforms.
Holds B.Eng. (Hons.) Computer Systems Engineering – 2008 . M.Sc. Internet Computing and Network Security – 2009 and Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing) – 2015
He is a Registered Engineer, Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) – 2017
Aina is a distinguished academic and systems expert with extensive experience in national examination systems, digital infrastructure, and public-sector institutional reform.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Kent, an MSc in Internet Computing and Network Security.
He also holds a PhD in Digital Signal Processing, both from Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
Aina has over 15 years of professional experience advising federal and state governments on digital transition, institutional reforms and system design.
He is one of Nigeria’s youngest professors in Computer Engineering and will become the youngest registrar in JAMB’s history.
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