No fewer than 5,658 candidates who scored 300 and above in Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations (UTME) missed out on admissions into tertiary institutions between 2019 and 2023, recent data obtained from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed. Sunday PUNCH reports that while tertiary institutions are at liberty to determine their respective benchmarks for admission, there is a widely …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has uncovered 3,000 fake graduates who never set foot within the four walls of a classroom. The board also decried the issue of illegal admissions by some institutions which, it said, had remained a source of embarrassment to the country. The Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in a report published in …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), alongside vice-chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics, and provosts of Colleges of Education, among other stakeholders in the education sector, will meet on July 18, 2024, to decide the cut-off or minimum benchmarks for admission. This year’s meeting will be chaired by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, according to a notice …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced on Sunday that the 2024 Direct Entry (DE) registration will now close on Monday, 17 June 2024. To accommodate the increased number of prospective DE candidates, JAMB has expanded DE registration points beyond the Professional Registration Centres (PRCs) in the states experiencing high demand. This decision comes in response to numerous requests …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released an additional 36,540 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results, which were earlier withheld for scrutiny. This was in addition to the 531 results it released the previous week, bringing the total results released to 1,879,437. In a statement yesterday in Abuja by the board’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, the …

Anytime the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examinations are written, there is bound to be headline news! No wonder, then, that JAMB is every newsman’s delight! The down-to-earth disposition of its Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, apart, the many battles and wars that JAMB perpetually fights against election malpractice and its beneficiaries before, during and after its examinations always make …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released additional 531 results of the recently conducted Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) taking the total number of results released to 1,842,897. In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin said that the Board had proceeded with the screening of over 64,000 withheld results due to …

The management of Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Model College in Ilorin, Kwara State, have taken to social media to celebrate the exploits of 30 of their students who scored 300 marks and above in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The said students scored between 300 and 355 marks out of possible 400. The feat was disclosed by a …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged Nigerians to be wary of any candidate parading printed result slips as the results are not in any paper format, for now. The body also said that, unlike last year, the results cannot be found on the Board’s website at the moment. In a statement on Wednesday by its spokesperson, Dr. …

The number of candidates who failed to score half of the possible marks represents 78 per cent of the candidates whose results were released by JAMB. Giving a breakdown of the results of the 1,842,464 candidates released, the board’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, noted that, “8,401 candidates scored 300 and above; 77,070 scored 250 and above; 439,974 scored 200 and …