By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education has commended the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for ensuring transparency in all its financial transactions and other activities. The committee, chaired by Hon. Oforji Oboku, gave the commendation on Wednesday in Abuja...
JAMB
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Kogi State, has commenced the process of admitting candidates into its over 35 undergraduate programmes approved by the National Universities Commission, NUC. The university, in a statement by its Registrar, Mrs Olufunke Hudson, on Tuesday...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has debunked reports in several publications insinuating that the Board has increased its examination registration fee. The JAMB Public Communication Advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said in a statement on Wednesday that the report is...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced dates for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination’s (UTME) sale of application documents, registration and the actual examination. This is contained in a statement signed by the JAMB Public Communication Advisor (PAC), Dr...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The President of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, Professor Sola Akinrinade, has lamented the decline in the quality of entrants into the Nigerian university system and advocate urgent intervention to stem this worrying tide. Akinrinade noted this on Tuesday at a policy...
The Lagos and Kwara States government as well as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) are drumming support for the 7th annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), scheduled for Thursday, October 5 at the Abuja Continental Hotel (Old Sheraton)...
The Federal Government on Wednesday conducted the second phase of computer-based Confirmatory Promotional Examination (COMPRO II) for junior cadre officers in public service across the nation. The examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), had a total of 9, 618 candidates from paramilitary and junior officers...
The Chairman, House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Ejikeme Mmesoma, Rt. Hon. Soli Sada, has commended the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, for the technological innovations deployed by the board for the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. Sada, who...
Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 19-year-old student from Anambra State, has written to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB), asking for leniency from the Board for manipulating her 2023 Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME) result. Mmesoma presented her letter of apology before the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on alleged Manipulation...
By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – Four suspects facing trial at the Federal High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, who were apprehended during the 2023 UTME for registration and examination infractions, are to remain in detention following their failure to secure bail. The suspects are to spend two more...
The committee set up by Gov. Chukwuma Soludo to investigate the alleged falsification of results of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination by Mmesoma Ejikeme, said she admitted to have manipulated her results unaided. The panel, in a report addressed to the Governor on Friday, said that interviewed Mmesoma‘s JAMB...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – The management of Innoson Automobile Company, has withdrawn the N3 million scholarship awarded to Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme for manipulating her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. Mr Cornel Osigwe, Head of Corporate Communications at Innoson Group, disclosed this in a statement made available...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the report of the Commission of Inquiry set up by the Anambra State Government, an independent and unbiased body, as demanded by some Nigerians to look into the Mmesoma saga, has vindicated the Board. The Acting...
The report of the Commission of Inquiry set up by the Anambra State Government, an independent and unbiased body, as demanded by some Nigerians to look into the Mmesoma saga, has vindicated the Board. This has further reinforced the position of the Board that its system was not and...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, has urged Mmesoma Ejikeme, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, to genuinely explained the source of her controversial UTME result. Mmesoma, who has been a subject of concern lately, had claimed that she scored 362...
A former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be “accountable” to Nigerians just as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) treated the case of Mmesoma Ejikeme, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, accused of result forgery. “Like JAMB,...
The House of Representatives has urged the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stay any punitive actions against Miss Joy Mmesoma Ejikeme over alleged falsification of her JAMB score. This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Awaji-Inombek Abiante (PDP-Bayelsa) at plenary in Abuja on Wednesday. The...
Emeritus Prof. Peter Okebukola, one time executive secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) says there is need for Nigerians to promote the thoroughness of JAMB, rather that discredit it. According to him, discrediting the effort of the examination body can be detrimental to the growth of the entire education system....
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday, joined the Federal Ministry of Education in a suit filed by a Seventh-day Adventist member seeking to stop the conduct of examinations and elections on Saturdays. The court also joined the Council of Legal Education to the suit following an application by...
A Federal lawmaker, Rep. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe has reinforced the need for the pending Bill on the validity of United Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to passed by the 10th National Assembly. This came to the fore during an online seminar, where the lawmaker argued that the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board,...