By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – About 176,408 candidates on Thursday across the country, sat for the 2023 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock-UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) In some of the Computer Based Test (CBT) centres monitored our Correspondent in Abuja, the exercise was...
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By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Out of the 148 Direct Entry (DE) candidates recently verified by the management of Bayero University Kano (BUK), only 6 were found to be genuine. By implication, 142 of the results were forged, according to the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The 2023 Mock-UTME earlier scheduled for Thursday,16th March, 2023, has been shifted to Thursday, 30th March, 2023. The shift in date is partly owing to the change in the date for the gubernatorial and state houses of assembly elections earlier scheduled to hold on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has dismissed two of its staff for gross misconduct. A statement issued on Wednesday by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin gave the names of the dismissed staff as Mr. Bilyaminu Ishaku and Mr. Andrew Anebi Candidus,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that over 1.16 million tertiary institutions admission seekers have so far registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede stated this at the weekend during a monitoring...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has denied having challenges with its Central Admissions processing System(CAPS). In a statement by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of the Board, Fabian Benjamin, said: “It has come to the knowledge of the Board that some...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has cancelled the registrations of 817 candidates in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, who made this known on Tuesday after separate meetings with stakeholders, said the registrations...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that as from 31st January, 2023, no candidate would be registered without the provision of an email address. The Board noted that this review of its Advisory on the ongoing UTME registration is to ensure...
Gombe gubernatorial candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Khamisu Mailantarki, has offered to pay for external examinations of students of the State if elected. Mailantarki, a former Member of House of Representatives from Gombe State, stated this during the inauguration of the NNPP Gubernatorial Campaign Council, on Saturday...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has rolled out some major dates for its activities in 2023. Head, Media & Information of the Board, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, who made this known in a statement on Tuesday, the dates for the various activities were...
The Jigawa office of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has inspected 14 Computer Based Training (CBT) Centres in preparation for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) in the state, Mr Mukarram Bello, made this known to the News Agency of...
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says registration into its Central Processing System (CAPS) and Integrated Brochure and Syllabus System (IBASS) by tertiary institutions would end in Jan. 1. JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede said this in Port Harcourt on Monday at the training of 270 admission officers...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a National Language Policy for use in all primary schools across the country. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu made this known to State House correspondents at the end of the Council meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says preparations are ongoing for commencement of sale of registration documents for its 2023/2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Registrar of the board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, gave the assurance during a media chat on Sunday in Lagos. He was reacting to...
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, the Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has described corruption in education sector as stealing the future of the country. Owasanoye stated this in Abuja at the annual ceremony of the 4th National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector with...
The management of University of Benin has fixed dates for its Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry screenings for 2022/2023 session. The university, in a notice by its Registrar, Mr Ademola Bobola on Wednesday in Benin, said that the exercise would hold between Nov. 14 and Nov....
Some private universities in Northwest say the prolonged strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) , has resulted in increase in their admission figure. The institutions, based in Kano, Kaduna and Katsina, said although the ASUU strike was not something to celebrate because of its negative impact on...
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has trained 180 lecturers and teachers on critical assessment competency. The Director Psychometric, JAMB, Dr Ariyo Akinyele, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Tuesday. Akinyele said that the gesture was to enhance...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has alerted the general public to a well-orchestrated smear campaign against JAMB and its management. The Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in statement on Thursday. Dr Benjamin said the sinister campaign...
University lecturers in the South-South have received with mixed feelings, the recent lowering of cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria, by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). While majority of them have described the new JAMB decision as counter productive and dangerous, others see it...