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...
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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...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday said there is no uniform minimum Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scores for any of the tiers of tertiary institutions and it has not decide the requirements for any institution. The Head, Public Affairs and...
Stakeholders in the education sector in the North-East have said that continuous lowering of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) cut-off mark would encourage competition and educational development in the country. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and heads of tertiary institutions of learning and other stakeholders on July...
The Vice Chancellor, Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun, Prof. Jeremiah Ojediran, says lowering Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE) cut-off marks will create a level playing ground for students seeking admission. Ojediran made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Ota....
Tertiary institutions have been allowed to determine the deadline for the 2022 admissions due to the status of 2021 admissions. The decision was reached at the end the 2022 Policy meeting and 2020 National Tertiary Admissions Performance-Merit Award programme organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in...
BY RICHARD ABU, Lafia – The Provost, College of Health Technology, Keffi Mr. Suleiman Muhammed has commended the Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule for his projects driven initiatives, most especially the construction of classrooms, laboratory halls and administrative offices at the permanent site of the college. The Provost...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the provisional licence for the take-off of the Enugu State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (ESUMAS), located in Igbo-Eno community of the state . The Executive Secretary of the Commission Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, while handing over...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that it does not conduct admission for institutions but rather regulates the process. The JAMB Spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, who made the clarification in a statement during the weekend was reacting to the ill-informed statement made...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it would further screen 27,105 results of candidates who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB disclosed this on Monday in its Weekly Bulletin issued from the Office of the Registrar in Abuja. The...
….Says no plans to organise another UTME By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned the general public, particularly candidates in the just- concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), to be wary of the guile and other unsavoury activities of fraudsters who...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved that its accredited Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres should increase service charge per candidate from N1,400 to N2,000. JAMB made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar on Monday in...