The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has rescheduled the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for candidates in 100 centres due to technical challenges experienced on Tuesday. The board made the announcement in a statement in Abuja by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin on Tuesday night. About 1.6 million candidates across over 700 are expected to take …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended the closing date for the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) registration by one week. In a statement on Monday, the Board’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Mr Fabian Benjamin said the DE registration, which started on 20th March, and billed to end on 20th April, had been extended by one week, starting …

This year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations  (UTME) will now hold on 25th April, four days earlier than the initial 29th April, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced on Sunday. In a statement in Abuja, JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin said the board would hold the rescheduled mock-UTME on 18th April. Benjamin said: “JAMB …

No fewer than 176,408 candidates will sit for the optional mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on 30th March, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said. The Board directed the candidates who registered for the optional mock-UTME to proceed to print the notification slips for the examination. The board explained that the notification slip contained the candidate’s registration …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has rescheduled the 2023 mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). It was earlier fixed for next Thursday, but has now been shifted to Thursday, 30 March. “The shift in date is partly owing to the change in the date for the Gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly Elections earlier scheduled to hold on …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has trained no fewer than 2,000 invigilators ahead of the 2023 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examinations and Direct Entry examinations. The board also noted that the training availed it the opportunity to review the guidelines for proctors and other examination officials. According to the bulletin published on Monday by the examination …

The aspiration of an 18-year-old Ogun State teenager, Esther Abiona of becoming a medical laboratory scientist in one of the country’s top-tier hospitals may be a pipe dream because she has been unable to successfully register for the United Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as a result of having incomplete fingers for biometrics. According to the Head of Public Affairs and …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it has dismissed two of its staff for gross misconduct. In a statement on Wednesday, the board gave the names of the dismissed staff as Mr Bilyaminu Ishaku and Mr Andrew Anebi Candidus, both from JAMB office in Makurdi, Benue State. It explained that the action was the fallouts of the …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended the registration of applicants for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by one week from 15 February. JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin said on Wednesday in Abuja that the sale of ePINs would end on Monday, 20 February, while the UTME registration ends on 22 …

The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede has said that the board is not considering an extension of registration for the 2023 registration of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) over the Naira crisis. Last week, JAMB said that it would not extend the 14 February deadline for the 2023 UTME registration, but had to reiterate …