No fewer than 577 blind candidates are set to take the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in 11 centres nationwide. Chairman of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG), Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola, made this known on Thursday while addressing newsmen in preparation for the 2024 UTME for blind candidates and others with special needs assigned …

In 1999, a handsome young man contested a House of Representatives election in his constituency. He did not want to stop there; he also wanted to be the Speaker when he got to the House. Young Salisu Buhari knew that a beautiful university degree would spice up his CV. He had none but believed he could acquire one. “A lot …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the top 10 performers in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The candidates, who have demonstrated exceptional academic prowess, hail from Anambra, Ogun, Edo, Lagos, Imo and Kwara States. Kamsiyochukwu Nkechinyere Umeh, who hails from Anambra State, emerged the No. 1 with 360 out of 400 points. She intends to …

The controversial “best candidate” of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Miss Joy Mmesoma Ejikeme has confessed that she manipulated the result in which she was said to have scored 362 out of 400 points, according to the finding of the panel set up by the Anambra State government to investigate the matter. According to the report of the …

It is often said that crime, criminal activities and criminals are one or two steps ahead of the law, law enforcement and law enforcement agents or agencies. So, the latter often have to engage in catching up with the former. Everyone admits that prevention is better than cure and to be proactive is far better and less expensive than shutting …

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged forgery of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result by Ejikeme Mmesoma. The lower legislative chamber passed the resolution during plenary on Wednesday, following the adoption of a motion sponsored by a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker from Rivers State, Hon. Awaji-Inombek Abiante. Since the release of the 2023 UTME …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed it paid N1,478,416,000.00 to owners of non-JAMB Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres nationwide for services they rendered during the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. In a statement on Thursday, its Director of Public Affairs and Protocol of the Board, Dr. Fabian Benjamin said that it was only proper to promptly settle obligations …

Fifteen-year-old Michelle David has scored 99 per cent in Mathematics at the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) examination, according to a statement by her school. Michelle, who hails from Delta State and said her ambition is to study Software Engineering, is a Fountain Heights Secondary School, Surulere, Lagos State. In all, she scored 334 out of 400 in …

Sixty-nine-year-old Babatunde Fabiyi was part of the candidates who wrote the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), with the aim of studying Medicine at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), information obtained from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed. Fabiyi, who picked UNILAG as his first choice, made Lagos State University his second choice with the same choice …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cleared itself of multiple scheduling of one Aminat Yahaya Suleiman in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) exercise. JAMB’s Public Relations Officer, Dr Benjamin Fabian told the media in Ibadan on Saturday that the video made on Tiktok by Aminat alleging multiple scheduling by the board was false. He said …