JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, have conducted a promotional examination for 6,000 directorate cadre staff under the Federal Civil Service Commission. For candidates in the Federal Capital Territory, the computer-based test was held at the JAMB CBT centre in Kogo, Bwari Area Council. Speaking with journalists during the exercise, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, […]
The Special Committee on Examination Infractions set up by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has uncovered more than 6,000 cases of technology-enabled malpractices in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The committee’s chairman, Dr. Jake Epelle, disclosed the findings while presenting its report in Abuja on Monday. Epelle revealed that 1,878 candidates falsely claimed […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has directed all candidates who uploaded their O-level results before the release of the final 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination results to revisit accredited centres and re-upload their results. In its weekly news bulletin, the board explained that all previously uploaded results have been cleared from its […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has presented conditions and processes for the admission of exceptional but underage candidates into Nigerian tertiary institutions. The Nigerian government had pegged the minimum age for admission into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education at 16, with the exception of gifted candidates. Gifted candidates, if proven, would be allowed […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has warned that it will not approve admissions for the 2024 and 2025 academic sessions in any tertiary institution that fails to submit its matriculation list. A few years ago, the Federal Ministry of Education mandated all tertiary institutions to submit these lists to JAMB as part of efforts […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has begun the rescheduling of the 379,997 affected candidates for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination. The rescheduling began on Thursday morning after the registrar of the examination body, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made it known in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. Oloyede admitted errors in the just-concluded […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has engaged top IT experts and educational assessment professionals to investigate alleged technical glitches that marred the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. In separate interviews with the newsmen on Sunday, some candidates blamed alleged technical glitches for the mass failure recorded in this year’s UTME. In the results released […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it will review the recently released Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. In a statement by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the board said it is fast forwarding its annual system review, a comprehensive post-mortem of the examination process, as a result of the ‘significant volume […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has warned candidates registering for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry to avoid unauthorized registration centres, cautioning that patronizing such centres could result in the invalidation of their registration. JAMB’s Public Relations Officer in Jigawa State, Mukarram Adamu, issued the warning in a statement on Tuesday […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has warned Computer-Based Test centres against conducting nighttime registration for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. In a statement on Sunday by its Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB stressed that all registration activities must take place during appropriate hours to ensure the safety and security of prospective […]
