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 …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that it will on Wednesday release the results of 379,000 candidates who sat the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) between Friday and Monday. JAMB rescheduled the exam following widespread outcry over mass failure during the initial UTME. The board admitted to technical and human errors, especially in Lagos and South-East states, …

The enemy is behind everything that happens to anyone here. In electronics and computing, a glitch is an unexpected software or hardware malfunction. Here, you have your phone frozen or your app crashed, you respond cursing the devil that is responsible for the trouble. You suffer network failure, you hit or tap the desk and pray against the spirit of …

Not everyone possesses the courage to publicly admit his or her mistakes. Many people will rather justify that such mistakes do happen and that they are not God, and not claiming to be perfect. Some will even go into history and cite many occurrences of such mistakes in the past. They will point out that other sectors are inflicted with …

Should we, then, return to the old system of institutions conducting admissions independently, as some aggrieved parents now advocate? Controversies trailing the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), started ever before the examination itself had begun. Many parents complained that their wards were posted to distances far away from home, necessitating …