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...
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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...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In a bid to realize egual access to education, the Federal Government said it has targeted to enroll 825,000 students with disabilities cumulatively over the next five years, The Minister of State for Education, Dr Tanko Yusuf Sununu disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja...
JEOG holds 1st Africa regional conference on equal of access to higher education in Abuja on Tuesday
JEOG holds 1st Africa regional conference on equal of access to higher education in Abuja on Tuesday
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s Equal opportunity Group (JEOG) will hold its First Africa Regional Conference on Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education (ARCEAHED), on Tuesday, September 17, and Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at the Idris AbdulKadir Conference Hall, National Universities Commission...
The House of Representatives has ordered the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to remit N3.602 billion to the Federal Government Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF). Rep. Bamidele Salam, the Chairman, Public Accounts Committee, who gave the order during an investigative hearing in Abuja, said that the remittance demanded by...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has advised the National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) to direct their hb grievances regarding the non-mobilisation of some Higher National Diploma (HND) students for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to the appropriate authorities. Given the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Contrary to recent claims by some Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates castigating the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for their inability to participate in the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, the board has denied having hand in their admission. The...
Following cases of fake certification recently detected by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), examination boards in Kenya and Uganda are now writing Nigeria to verify records presented by Nigerian candidates seeking admissions into tertiary institutions in their respective countries. JAMB made this known in a document ‘Registrar’s Report...
The University of Ilorin has emerged the best institution at the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) National Tertiary Admissions’ Performance-Merit Award (NATAP-M Award) for the year 2021 and 2022. The ceremony was held during the 2024 JAMB policy meeting and 4th edition of the National Tertiary Admissions’ Performance-Merit...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), as well as the Federal Government have pegged the cutoff mark for admission into Nigerian universities at 140 in the new academic session, 2024/2025. The decision was taken at the 2024 Combined Policy meeting on admissions...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Stakeholders currently participating at the 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting were rattled when the Minister of Education, Prof Mamman Tahir announced that candidates seeking admission into higher institutions must be 18 and above. Immediately the Minister made the...