The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reactivated the portal of Jamiu Basola, a Civil Engineering graduate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) after he was previously flagged for possessing a fake admission. It was reported that Basola, who graduated in 2024 with a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.41, said he sat for the Unified Tertiary …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2025 mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held on Saturday, 28 June. According to a statement on Sunday evening by JAMB’s spokesman, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, results have been released for 11,161 candidates who sat for the exam out of the 96,838 candidates scheduled for the mop-up exercise. …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it did not approve the admission of a Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) graduate, Basola Jamiu Owodunni, whose records, according to the board, were not found in its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS). JAMB disclosed this in a statement on Sunday signed by its Public Communication Adviser, Fabian Benjamin, following …

Few hours to the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), mop-up, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has expressed concern on the low number of candidates that have printed their notification slips, which will authorise them to sit the exam. JAMB had scheduled the 2025 UTME mop-up examination for Saturday, 28 June 2025 (today). In a statement by its …

No fewer than 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 average mark in the Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination  (UTME) after the recent resit organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination Board (JAMB), following the technical and human errors that marred the original exam. In the resit UTME results released on Sunday, JAMB noted that the majority of candidates — …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of results for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) resit conducted at centres previously affected by technical issues. According to a statement on Sunday by JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, results were released for 336,845 candidates who were rescheduled for the examination. However, 21,082 of them …

No fewer than 20 suspects are currently in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), in Abuja, for hacking the 2025 Computer-based test (CBT) examinations conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), The Nation gathered yesterday. The suspects are part of a syndicate believed to have over 100 persons, who …

The last time a public official wept on national TV, Nigerians regretted offering her towels instead of buckets to collect her tears. She was acting, but we didn’t know it. Diezani Allison-Madueke had just been appointed Minister of Transport and went on a tour to assess some major roads. At the Benin end of the Lagos-Benin highway, she broke down …

The Court of Appeal gave a ruling in the local government chairmanship tussle between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration, and its All Progressives Congress’ (APC) predecessor in Osun State: You thought that settled the matter, but it was the beginning of the melee with both sides claiming that the same judgment gave them victory. When the court also …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a fresh round of mop-up examinations to accommodate the over 5.6 per cent of candidates who missed the just-concluded 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, made the disclosure on Wednesday during a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja, stating that the initiative will cover all affected candidates, regardless …