Everyone knows what is good; why they cannot imitate it is what baffles me! Or are they just pretending? In the event that you think I am directing my question only at those in power, permit me to announce to you that you are mistaken! Gani Fawehinmi, remember him? He put himself forward for election as president of this country …

By the time the strong-willed, former Education Minister in Olusegun Obasanjo presidency, Oby Ezekwesili, lent her voice to the controversial Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result forgery saga involving a minor from Ananmbra State, I concluded that Nigeria was in for a most interesting time. The ‘steely’ character had argued that the Joint Admissions and Administration Board (JAMB), which conducts …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s Equal opportunity Group,JEOG, will hold its First Africa Regional Conference on Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education,ARCEAHED,in Abuja on Tuesday. The conference with the theme:”Advancing Equal Opportunity Access to Higher Education: A Call to Action “, will draw participants from Ethiopia, Malawi, Egypt and other African countries. Speaking on Monday,at a press conference …

The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, and stakeholders in the education sector have identified funding and infrastructural gaps as the main reasons for the poor quality of education in Nigeria. During a radio town hall meeting on the ‘Falling Standard of Education in Nigeria’ organised by the Progressive Impact Organisation for Community Development …

The Federal Government has mandated all higher institutions in the country to “regularly submit their matriculation lists to the Federal Ministry of Education not later than three months after matriculation ceremonies”. The list, the government said, must be submitted “through the dedicated channel of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board”. The initiative is one of the recommendations made by a …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all higher institutions in the country to disclose, within one month, details of all candidates they illegally admitted before 2017 or risk recognition and condonation. The board’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the board’s headquarters on Sunday, in Abuja. Benjamin said that the board …

Visit any of our institutions of higher learning and you begin to see toddler-undergraduates all over the place! Boys and girls who should still be in SS1 are already preparing to graduate! Merely looking at them testifies to the fact that they lack the much-needed maturity. They may pass through the university but will the university pass through them? At …

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 …