The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commenced the sale of direct entry forms nationwide and in selected foreign centres. A statement signed by the public communication advisor, JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, on Tuesday, said the registration process starts on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, and closes on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The sale is open […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the commencement date for the sale of Direct Entry (DE) registration nationwide, along with selected foreign centers, starting from Wednesday. According to Fabian Benjamin, the Public Communications Advisor at JAMB, the registration process will initiate on Wednesday, February 28, and conclude on Thursday, March 28. Benjamin
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says registration for its 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) ends on Monday, February 26. The board made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the 2024 exercise began on Monday, Jan.15, in
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suspended the admissions of 10,378 candidates who participated in the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) examination due to their inability to submit their A-level certificates for verification to the examination body. Earlier in February 2023, JAMB issued an advisory aimed at guiding candidates seeking admissions through direct entry
The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reiterated the requirement for UTME prospective candidates to present, on their mobile phones, the codes and pins obtained as proof of registration at Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres. This directive, highlighted in the latest edition of the JAMB weekly bulletin issued on Monday, aims to counteract the rising issue
Concerns have been raised regarding the transparency of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) registration process, as discrepancies in the reported registration fees and changes in material distribution methods come to light. While JAMB initially communicated registration fees of 3500 and 4700, it has been brought to public attention that the actual cost is
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The internet was awash with arguments for and against the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board’s (JAMB) minimum obtainable cut-off mark for the 2022/2023 academic session that was announced on June 24, 2023. Let us first restate the minimum obtainable cut-off mark. On Saturday, June 24, the Registrar of the board, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, at the
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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, says it has concluded investigations on the case of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused of fraudulently inflating her 2023 UTME score. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede stated this in a transcript sent to Punch from Windhoek, Namibia. Earlier on
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday morning said that it has barred an Anambra State candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme for three years over alleged forgery of UTME results. In a statement made available on Tuesday morning by the Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB insisted that only Mmesoma paraded an “obsolete” notification slip out of
Nigerian lawyer, Ndidi Abike, has stepped forward to provide free legal assistance to Miss Ejike Mmesoma, a student who has been accused by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) of forging her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result. In a video circulating on social media, Miss Mmesoma admitted to printing the alleged fake UTME
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Mmesoma Ejikeme, a student from Anambra state who was initially celebrated for achieving the highest score in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), has spoken out about the trauma she has experienced following allegations of forged results. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) recently declared her claimed score of 362 as fake and
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In a recent statement, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that it has disbursed a total sum of N1,478,416,000.00 to Non-JAMB Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre owners across the country for their services rendered during the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Fabian Benjamin, PhD, head of Public Affairs and Protocol at JAMB,
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a new deadline for the sales of pin and registration for candidates seeking admissions into Nigerian universities through direct entry. The sale of e-PINs would close on Saturday, 26th May, while registration of those who obtained the e-PIN ends on Tuesday, 30th May, the examination body
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that Direct Entry (DE) candidates seeking to gain admission to Nigerian universities will henceforth be required to sit for the UTME along with other candidates. JAMB said that the new policy was to ensure that the DE candidates justify the possession of their A level certificates.
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Many applicants in the ongoing registration for this year’s Direct Entry (DE) into universities and polytechnics in Nigeria are facing tough times registering with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The situation is so bad at the Lagos office of the examination body as some of the applicants are sleeping at the board’s headquarters
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Sexagenarian man named Babatunde Fabiyi,a 69-year-old was part of the candidates who sat the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, with the aim of studying medicine at the University of Lagos, information obtained from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has revealed. The press gathered that Fabiyi, who picked UNILAG as his first choice, picked the
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The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the rescheduled 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin disclosed that no fewer than 80,000 candidates, who failed to sit for the 2023 UTME, took the rescheduled examination in Nigeria. Adamu said he was satisfied with the smooth
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Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh,the Anambra State Commissioner for Education has praised Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma for her performance during the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, describing it as “excellent and very outstanding.” Chuma-Udeh said the performance coming from the state has again demonstrated the investment and priority the administration of
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A Nigerian dad has reportedly bought his daughter a car after making him proud scoring 350 out of 400 points in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The school girl took to her Twitter page to announce this and show off her new ride. Apparently, her caring father decided to reward her academic brilliance
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Lotanna Azuokeke, a student of Bishop Otubelu Juniorate, Trans Ekulu, Enugu, scored 99 marks in Mathematics in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Azuokeke, 15, scored a total of 337 marks in the examination, according to a statement by Chiwuike Uba, Media Adviser to the Bishop of the Diocese of Nike (Anglican Communion), the
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