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...
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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...
Some parents have expressed worry over the backlog of admissions following incessant strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the country. NAN reports that in 2020, ASUU went on a nine-month strike, which was the longest since 1999 and about two years later on Feb. 14,...
The Ior Gboko Foundation (IGF), has commissioned a standard Business Centre in Gboko, Benue state, to assist indigent candidates wishing to register for their West African Examinations Council (WAEC) school certificate and National Examinations Council (NECO) and the Unified Tertiary Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation...
Outlines process for checking 2022 UTME results By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Dr. Fabian Benjamin, The Head, Public Affairs and Protocol JAMB, disclosed this in a statement issued...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Improvement in Internet network, steady power supply as well as functional computers were among features that made the candidates writing the 2022 UTME excited on Monday, the second day of the exam. It would be recalled that examination which has a total of 1,761,338...
Following the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) every Monday in the South East, candidates writing the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Enugu have been left stranded. The 2022 Computer Based Test (CBT) which began on Friday May 6, ought to have ended...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – As over 1.7m candidates on Friday began sitting for 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Internet network failure, power disruption, malfunctioning of computers were among challenges encountered by candidates. Also slow verification process was identified among the hitches affecting candidates seeking admission into various...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged its officials to adhere strictly to its guidelines as the 2022 exercise begins for over 1.7 million candidates nationwide. JAMB gave the directive in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar in Abuja....