The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says candidates under the age of 16 can be considered for admission into tertiary institutions if they demonstrate that they are academically exceptional by scoring 80 per cent and above in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Given that the total score in the UTME is 400 marks, 80 represents a minimum score …

Those who insist that 16-year-olds are old enough to qualify for admission into our institutions of higher learning — if they satisfy other criteria — may have won the battle for now, but the controversy over this very sensitive issue is far from being over! Not only are the arguments against 16 years unassailable, the law, as it is, is …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced a mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates below the age of 16. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, explained that the mock UTME is not for the purpose of tertiary institution admission but for underage seeking to test their ability. Oloyede spoke on Sunday at a meeting with media executives …

A Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has sentenced ‘Professor’ Jide Josiah Jisos to six months in prison for impersonation during the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME. The convict was apprehended by officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB, while monitoring the 2019 UTME at Brix Academy in Abuja. The board which confirmed this in a statement, …

A parent, Onyebuchi Obioha, has petitioned the Senate over the non-release of his daughter Chizitere Obioha’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result. He alleged that the development was caused by the misconduct of a Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) supervisor. In a petition submitted through a senator, Neda Imasuen, Obioha accused a JAMB supervisor of giving his 16-year-old daughter his phone …

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 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 …

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 …

A graduate of Chemistry from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Anambra State, Juliet Chidiebube Uka, has scored 324 in the just concluded 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Uka was the best-graduating student in the Department of Chemistry at UNIZIK in 2021,  graduating with a first class. She said she sat for the 2024 UTME to study Medicine as she …