Dibu Ojerinde


Dibu Ojerinde is a Nigerian professor of Tests and Measurement, educational administrator and a former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB.

Life and career

He was born in Igboho, Oyo State, Nigeria. He attended Wesley College, Ibadan where he received the Teacher Grade II Certificate Examinations in 1964. He later attended Adeyemi College of Education where he obtained the Nigeria Certificate in Education in 1968. He proceeded to the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University for a Bachelor of science degree in education in 1973 and a Master of education in 1975. He later proceeded to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York where he received a Ph. D degree in Educational measurement in 1978. He became a Professor of Tests and Measurement in October 1986.
He began his career as a secondary school teacher in 1965 at Laogun Methodist Grammar School. He left to Ibada Iseyin District Grammar School, Iseyin in 1970 and later College of Advanced Studies, Kano in 1975.
He joined the services of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in 1973 and was appointed a Director of Institute of Education in the same university in 1984, a tenure that ended in 1990.
He is the first Nigerian Professor of Tests and Measurement.
In 1990, he was appointed as the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, National Primary Education Commission, a tenure that elapsed in 1991.
In 1991 he was appointed as the Director and Consultant at Centre for Educational Measurement, Federal Ministry of Education. After his tenure in 1992, he was appointed as the Registrar of the National Board for Educational Measurement, NBEM. He held this position for 7 years. Shortly after his tenure as of the National Board for Educational Measurement in 1999, he was appointed as the Registrar of National Examination Council, NECO. He held this position for 8 years.
After his tenure in 2007, he was appointed as Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, a position he held for 5 years and was reappointed on 10 April 2012.

Professional association

Member of the Nigerian Psychological Association, NPA