The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that its 2020 Policy Meeting has been fixed for 16th June 2020. This was disclosed in a weekly news bulletin released on Sunday June 7, 2020, by JAMB’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin. According to the bulletin, the policy meeting is aimed at setting modalities for […]
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Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has innaugurated a 2000 capacity Joint Admission and Matriculation Board Computer Based Test centre in Lafia, the state capital. While disclosing this on Wednesday May 27, 2020, the governor stated that the project was part of the activities outlined for the celebration of his one year in office. He explained
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In a bid to reiterate its commitment to the safety of its workers, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has ordered ventilators, environmental disinfectant safety sprayers and vehicle-mounted disinfectant sprayers to sanitise all workers across the country. While disclosing this in a statement on Sunday May 17, 2020, the board affirmed that the equipment was
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has remitted the sum of N3.5b to the Federal Government consolidated account. While disclosing this in a statement on Sunday May 3, 2020, Head of Media, JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, noted that the remittance was part of the remittance for the year 2020. Benjamin further stressed that it was
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has released the 2019 provisional matriculation list of admitted candidates on its official website. In its weekly bulletin on Monday 20 April, 2020, the spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, noted that a large number of candidates offered provisional admission, were yet to accept the admission. “A list
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Following the cases of examination malpractices recorded during this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME), not less than 180 candidates have been handed over to the police for prosecution. JAMB’s Head of Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday 26th March, 2020. He stated that about 70 per cent of
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have released results of the 312,000 candidates that sat for Saturday’s 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) nationwide. This was disclosed by the Board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjaminin in an interview with news men on Monday, 16th March, 2020 in Lagos. Benjamin implored all concerned
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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has expressed satisfaction with processes put in place by the board, ahead of the forthcoming 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Dr Emmanuel Ndukwe, Chairman, JAMB’s Governing Board, disclosed this during an inspection of Computer Based Test (CBT) centres across Lagos on Thursday 13th February, 2020. While commending efforts
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Following the information gathered by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), candidates have been warned against accepting any offer of admission not on its letter headed paper and on the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS). Disclosing this in a statement on Thursday 6th February, 2020, in Lagos, JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian
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The licences of 11 centres selling the e-PIN for registration for the 2020 unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) have been withdrawn by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. The centres were accused of charging candidates above the amount pegged by the board for the sales of examination instruments. JAMB had fixed the cost of e-PIN
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced suspension of the National Identification Number (NIN) as a prerequisite for candidates sitting for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) until 2021. This was announced in an official statement from the twitter page of JAMB, on Saturday, 11th January, 2020. Candidates are hereby requested to send
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has ordered Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) to admit a female candidate, Thomas Goodness Shekwobyalo from Niger State, to study medicine instead of the Anatomy she was offered. JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede gave the directive in Bwari, Abuja, on Thursday 9 January, 2020, at a review meeting in
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Delta State High Court, Asaba has sentenced a JAMB official, James Orji Ihejirika to eight-year imprisonment for stealing JAMB E-facility cards and change of course cards worth N12.5 million. Ihejirka, an accountant of JAMB working in their Asaba office, received consignments containing E-facility cards and change of course cards worth N12.5 million from Jamb headquarters
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Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, has disclosed that the board has generated N20 billion from University and Tertiary Matriculation Examinations between 2016 and 2019. He made this disclosure during a two-day meeting with Computer Based Test Centre Operators, State Coordinators of the Board, Financial Institutions and Internet Service Providers today in
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It was a three-in-one programme today at Odiolowo/Ojuwoye LCDA as the Council Chairman, Hon Rasaq Olusola Ajala, distributed e-Learning compact disc containing UTME, WAEC and GCE past questions to students within the LCDA. He equally provided financial support to the representatives of the LCDA, who took the second position at the just concluded Conference 57
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The West African Examinations Council has released the list of certificates of candidates alleged to have engaged in malpractices during its examinations held as far back as December 1992 and 1993. The council released the examination years and certificate numbers of the affected candidates, noting that the nature of their malpractices was impersonation. The details
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The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, and some other notable Nigerians will on Thursday 28th November, 2019 receive President Muhammadu Buhari National Productivity Order of Merit award Disclosing this yesterday in Abuja, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said the award was aimed at recognising “hard work and excellence
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House of Representatives have urged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to postpone the use of National Identity Number (NIN) for the registration of prospective candidates till 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This motion was sponsored on Wednesday 13th November, 2019 by Zainab Gimba under Matters of Urgent National Importance. The lawmaker faulted
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The management of the University of Nigeria (UNN), has directed all her prospective students for the 2019/2020 academic session, to upload their O’level results on the JAMB portal. This became a necessity because JAMB had now introduced a new system that does not allow Universities to admit students who fail to upload their results on
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Just this year alone, JAMB has turned out poor policies or less though-out policies, to say the least. The big question is what does JAMB really want to do with the life of the teeming prospective students that is looking to her for admissions into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions for the 2016/2017 academic session? Earlier this
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