By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially closed the registration for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The registration process, which began on February 3, 2025, saw a total of 2,030,627 candidates successfully completed their registration, allowing them to participate in...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially announced the commencement of sales for the 2025 Direct Entry (DE) application documents, set to begin on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. In statement on Monday in Abuja by the Spokesman of the board, Dr Fabian...
An Abuja High Court on Tuesday, threatened to revoke the bail it granted to Yisa Usman, the sacked Deputy Director, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), over behaviour considered to be improper. Justice H.A. Musa, who cautioned Usman, granted the oral application by N. Orji, the prosecution lawyer, to...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja– The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), said, currently, over 1.5 million candidates have successfully registered, which aligns closely with the Board’s projections for the 2025 examination cycle. This was disclosed on Tuesday in a statement by the spokesman of the board, Fabian Benjamin According...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has emphasized that it does not select examination towns for candidates taking the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) or the Optional Mock examination. A statement issued on Sunday by the Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, Ph.D, said this...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Executive Secretary (ES), Female Education Board, Professor Mustapha Tukur Namaka, has donated JAMB forms to 3 exceptionally intelligent female students from public schools in the state . The benefiting students include: Shamau Zayyanu, and Maimuma Mahmud Yusuf both from SSS 2 and...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has expressed concern about the trend of nocturnal (nighttime) registration of prospective candidates for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by certain registration centres. While appreciating the enthusiasm of these centers to accommodate as many candidates...
By OLA MODUPE , Ibadan – Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan has convicted and sentenced one Olayiwola Oguntade to prison for fraud. Oguntade, a former staff member of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was arraigned by the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suspended the Federal College of Education (Technical) Potiskum CBT Centre 2 in Yobe State and the CBT Centre, Otukpo, Benue State, for a period of 14 days, effective Tuesday, February 4. The Board said the suspension...
Some intending candidates of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at Abule Egba part of Lagos State spent up to six hours on Monday attempting to be registered. UTME is conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the...
By JOHN ONAH Abuja – The Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), and the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), have debunked allegations of financial mismanagement against the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) as baseless and unfounded. NASU’s Branch Chairman at JAMB, Comrade Andrew Onakpa, in a statement...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – A day after the suspension of 8 universities, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the suspension of admissions into the Law Faculty of Fountain University, Osogbo for the 2025/26 academic session also for the same reason of .violation of regulatory procedures....
JAMB suspends admission into law programme of some selected varsities due to violation of procedures
JAMB suspends admission into law programme of some selected varsities due to violation of procedures
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has announced the suspension of admission into the law programme of 8 universities over violation of regulatory procedures. The Board’s Public Communications Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, announced the suspension in a statement on Wednesday. In Abuja Benjamin...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Two major labour unions at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the National Association of Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), have thrown their full weight behind the proposed increase in allocation for staff...
The National Assembly Joint Committee on Finance has exonerated the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), of alleged misappropriation of funds in its 2024 budget implementation. Chairman of the committee, Sen . Sani Musa in a statement on Thursday, said the board was erroneously accused of reckless spendings, given...
A socio-cultural group, the Legends Club of Okun Land in Kogi, is set to purchase Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) forms for 300 indigent students to support less privileged students in the area. The Director, Media and Publicity of the club, Mr Olusegun Abereoran, disclosed this in a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially commenced the accreditation of centres for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Board spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said in a statement on Sunday, that the accreditation process is a critical first step in...
The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa has reversed the decision of the past minister of education on the 18-years admission benchmark into tertiary institutions. Alausa spoke at his inaugural press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. According to him, what led to that initial decision was the way the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja A Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has sentenced ‘Professor’ Jide Josiah Jisos to six months in prison for impersonation during the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). It was reported that ‘Prof.’ Jisos was apprehended by officials of the Joint Admissions and...
More partners are lining up for the eighth annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Delta State and Lagos State, as well as the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board...