By Michael Adeyemo The 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination ,UTME, has commenced today with more than 2.2 million candidates expected to participate across accredited centres. Pensioners FM Correspondent, who monitored the exercise in some parts of Ibadan, to include Ologuneru and Sango, reports that candidates arrived early at their respective centres in compliance with the…
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….
A member of the House of Representatives, Iduma Igariwey, has called for the cancellation of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, citing what he described as a “catastrophic institutional failure” by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. Igariwey, who leads the South-East Caucus in the House, made the call during an interview on Channels Television’s…
Parents of the candidates affected by the human error which led to a glitch in the 2025 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination, UTME, have demanded the postponement of the planned resit, which begins today, till June 2025. A post from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on its official X handle on Thursday stated,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has engaged top IT experts and educational assessment professionals to investigate alleged technical glitches that marred the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. In separate interviews with The PUNCH on Sunday, some candidates blamed alleged technical glitches for the mass failure recorded in this year’s UTME. In the results released…
TODAY’S VIEWPOINT LOOKS AT JAMB AND THE BROKEN SYSTEM Disappointment settled over many homes when the joint admissions and matriculation board, jamb announced the release of the 2025 UTME results recently. Silence from candidates who had dared to dream, and silence from their parents who had done all they could to keep hope alive through…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commenced the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Abuja and other states of the federation with over two million candidates expected to sit for the entry level examination into tertiary institutions. Actual statistics gathered from JAMB officials indicate that about 2,030,627 candidates are registered to sit…
BALANCING MERIT AND MATURITY IN JAMB’S AGE POLICY IS THE FOCUS OF TODAY’S VIEWPOINT. As prospective candidates gear up for 2025 unified tertiary matriculation examination, the question of eligibility for under 16 hangs in the air. A delta state high court recently ruled that the 16 years minimum admission age policy of the joint admissions…
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 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…