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 …

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 …