Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the top-performing candidates in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), with a University of Lagos (UNILAG) aspirant emerging as the overall best scorer nationwide. The announcement was made during the 2026 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions held in...
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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Abuja on Monday released the official minimum admissable cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions across Nigeria for the 2026 academic session. The examination body made announcement at the 2026 Policy Meeting on Admissions, held at Body of Bencher Auditorium, Abuja. According...
Candidates seeking admission into Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) programmes in Colleges of Education will no longer be required to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, announced this on Monday during JAMB’s 2026 policy meeting in Abuja.Under the new guidelines, prospective students...
I have long maintained that a disquieting number of UTME candidates no longer submit themselves to disciplined study. This conviction was reaffirmed by an experience I had in Enugu while accompanying a friend who was sitting for the examination. We gathered at the centre, awaiting our summons into the...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who sat the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18, 2026, respectively. JAMB’s Public Communication Adviser, Dr Fabian Benjamin, announced this in a press statement on Sunday. He said...
Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) have rescued 13 passengers who were abducted from a Benue Links commercial bus along the Makurdi–Otukpo road, including students travelling to sit for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination. The passengers were among 17 travellers kidnapped on April 15 while en...
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said the ongoing 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) is progressing smoothly nationwide, with only minimal technical and operational challenges recorded. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this during an inspection visit to the University of Ibadan Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre in...
Former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has strongly condemned the reported abduction of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates in Benue State, describing the incident as a tragic reflection of leadership failure and worsening insecurity in Nigeria. In a statement, Obi expressed deep concern over the safety of young Nigerians...
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the first batch of results for candidates who participated in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). In a statement issued on Friday and signed by the Board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB confirmed that 632,788 candidates who sat for the examination...
As the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) exercise enters day 2, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured candidates whose examinations were disrupted that they would be rescheduled to write them at a later date. Public Communication Advisor of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made the disclosure on...
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said the incident at the Esther Oshikoya CBT Centre, Ibadan where a candidate was asked to remove her hijab was not in line with its operations. JAMB Spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin in a statement on Thursday said the Board promptly intervened by calling...
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted several candidates travelling for the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Benue State after attacking a Benue Links commercial bus. The incident according to Channels TV, reportedly occurred between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, near Burnt Bricks...
Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has dismissed circulating rumours about the safety of some examination centres in a North Central state ahead of the 2026 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination, assuring candidates and parents that robust security measures have been put in place nationwide. In a statement issued...
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has finalised all arrangements to conduct the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) slated to hold between 16th -22nd April, 2026. According to a weekly bulletin of the Board, no fewer than 2.2million candidates are expected to sit the UTME in about 966...
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a slight adjustment to the schedule for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). According to a post on JAMB’s official X (formerly Twitter) account, the first session arrival time has been moved from 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. The exam’s...
Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that all candidates who registered for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) can now proceed to print their Examination Notification Slips. The examination is scheduled to commence from Thursday, 16th April 2026. Spokesman of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, announced...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the results of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, mock test conducted on Saturday, March 28, 2026. In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the Board advised candidates to check their results by sending MOCKRESULT via...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced the re-arrest of an alleged examination fraudster, Emmanuel Praise Akataka, over renewed attempts to defraud candidates through false promises of score manipulation and registration protection. At a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, following the development, Registrar of JAMB, Prof....
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of slips for candidates registered for the 2026 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The examination body made the announcement via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle, @JAMBHQ, on Monday, urging candidates to proceed to its portal to access...
Vice-Chancellor of University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Professor Mohammed Laminu Mele, has announced that the institution matriculated 6,553 new students into its 100 and 200 level programmes for the 2025/2026 academic session. Professor Mele disclosed this on Tuesday during his welcome address at the university’s matriculation ceremony in Maiduguri. He...