The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has extended the deadline for the sale of Direct Entry, DE, application forms to May 8, 2026. The decision was disclosed in a statement issued on Wednesday via social media by the board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, who explained that the move is aimed at ensuring that all eligible…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has dismissed as fake a widely circulated result slip purporting to show a candidate from Cross River State scored 394 in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The result, shared by social media user, claimed the female candidate, Okon Winniefred Sampson, scored 394 out of 400. “Okon Winnifred…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced the release of results for candidates who sat the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18. In a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the board said 1,264,940 results from the two days had been processed and made…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has urged parents and candidates to speak up if they are confident in their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination scores but are not admitted to their desired institutions. Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said this during an interview on Good Morning Nigeria, a Nigerian Television Authority’s programme. In a…
A former member of the House of Representatives and governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kaduna State, Shehu ABG , has sponsored 3,000 indigent students to sit the 2026 examination of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. The intervention, which cuts across the 23 local government areas of the state, covers the full…
Parents and guardians in Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State protested the alleged delisting of the area’s only Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Computer-Based Test, CBT, centre ahead of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The peaceful protest took place at the affected centre in Gembu, the administrative headquarters of the council….
The Chairman, Special Committee on Examination Infractions, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Dr Jake Epelle. The Special Committee on Examination Infractions set up by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has uncovered more than 6,000 cases of technology-enabled malpractices in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. This was disclosed in a report by the committee’s…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has directed all candidates who uploaded their O-level results before the release of the final 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination results to revisit accredited centers and re-upload their results. In its weekly news bulletin on Monday, the Board explained that all previously uploaded results have been cleared…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has inaugurated a special committee to investigate cases of technology-driven malpractice detected during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Inaugurating the 23-member Special Committee on Examination Infraction on Monday in Abuja, JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, decried the rising sophistication of exam fraud, revealing that the results of 6,458…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday said it will begin the screening of over 500 exceptional candidates below 16 years of age seeking admission into tertiary institutions for the 2025/2026 academic session between September 22 and 26. The board said the screening would be done by a special technical committee it has set up. It…