The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will decide the cut-off for 2023 admissions into universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions on 24th June. The event, which will hold at the National Judicial Institute, will have in attendance all heads of tertiary institutions and regulatory bodies such as the National Universities Commission, National Board for Technical Education, and the National …

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 …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commissioned a 1000-seating capacity mega Computer Based Test (CBT) centre in Kaduna. The centre said to be the largest in West Africa has four units each of 250 seaters with the capacity to conduct the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for 4,000 candidates per day. While inaugurating the N1.19 billion CBT centre along …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that Direct Entry (DE) candidates seeking to gain admission to Nigerian universities will henceforth be required to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination along with other candidates. JAMB said that the new policy was to ensure that the DE candidates justify the possession of their A Level certificates. This is …

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 …

A former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Adedibu Ojerinde is praying the Federal High Court Abuja to order his release from detention. Ojerinde is facing trial for allegedly diverting public funds amounting to about 5 billion naira. At the day’s proceedings, his counsel, Mr. Eteya Ogana drew attention of the court to a motion challenging the …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Computer Based Test (CBT) was conducted between Tuesday, 25th April and Monday, 1st May. A statement on Tuesday by JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin said 1,595,779 candidates registered to sit in 708 CBT centres in 105 towns. But the results excluded …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed a rescheduled date for candidates unable to sit for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB said candidates who missed their scheduled examination would take it on Saturday, 6th May, 2023. The spokesman of the Board, Fabian Benjamin said candidates under these categories are principally those who were verified at …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that about 947,000 candidates sat for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) within the last two days. The figure was disclosed by JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, after monitoring the ongoing UTME alongside the Registrar of the board, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, on Thursday in Abuja. Stressing that everybody who registered would …