The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has urged the federal government to allow the National Universities Commission, NUC, to manage the budgets of tertiary institutions in addition to its role as the regulator that accredits courses in schools. The Registrar of the board, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, who is also a former Vice Chancellor of…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced the postponement of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination registration until Monday, February 3. The registration, initially set to begin on Friday, January 31, was postponed to “allow the Board to implement essential adjustments to its registration templates.” The Board’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this…
The Management of Kwara State University, KWASU, Malete, has indicated readiness to comply with the one-year suspension of the law programme in the institution by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. According to report, JAMB announced that it will not be conducting admissions for the law programme in eight selected universities, including KWASU, following…
Mr Yisa Usman, the sacked deputy director of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has stated that he is determined to expose corruption in the board, irrespective of threats and intimidation against him. Usman made this known to Justice Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osaghae of the National Industrial Court, Abuja, while being cross-examined as the sole witness…
The National Assembly Joint Committee on Finance has exonerated the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board of alleged misappropriation of funds in its 2024 budget implementation. The chairman of the committee, Senator Sani Musa, in a statement today, said the board was erroneously accused of reckless spending, given the documents submitted to the committee by JAMB….
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has revealed that no fewer than 5,658 candidates who scored 300 and above in Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations missed out on admissions into tertiary institutions between 2019 and 2023. According to reports, tertiary institutions are at liberty to determine their respective benchmarks for admission, there is a widely…
The Federal Government yesterday confirmed that the probe of 3,000 alleged ‘fake’ graduates recently uncovered by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was ongoing. Minister of State for Education Tanko Sununu, who made this known to newsmen yesterday, vowed that those indicted would be prosecuted for forgery. Tanko, who also explained that the report of a panel that…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the results of candidates who participated in the supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted between June 21 and 22, 2024. This board’s spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, stated this in a statement in Abuja on Friday. According to JAMB, 28,835 applicants who were not able to provide biometric…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the outstanding results of 3,921 candidates who sat for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination exams. In a statement on Sunday, the board released the 3,921 outstanding results, bringing the total results released to 1,883,350, adding that the results of 431 candidates have been withheld for various…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released an additional 531 results of the recently conducted Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations taking the total number of results released to 1,842,897. This information is contained in a statement by the Public Communication Advisor of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, today in Abuja. Benjamin said the Board had…