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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has uncovered a massive forgery scandal involving at least 15,000 candidates who falsified admission letters to qualify for mobilisation into the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The shocking revelation was made by the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, during the 2025 Batch C Pre-Mobilisation Workshop held in…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has informed prospective candidates for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations that it would not conduct admissions for Law programme in some selected universities. The universities are: Kwara State University, Malete, Ilorin, Kwara State Bingham University, Karu, Nasarawa State; Redeemers University, Ede, Osun State Western Delta University, Oghara,…
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced key dates for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). According to JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the sale of forms will begin on January 31, 2025, and close on March 5, 2025. For Direct Entry candidates, the sale of application documents and e-PIN vending will…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, said on Thursday that universities and other tertiary institutions in the country can now admit candidates who will turn 16 by August 31, 2025. The board announced that the affected candidates can be admitted for the 2024/2025 academic session if they meet the institution’s standards. The minimum age…
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The Federal Government has directed that admission to tertiary institutions should not be given to candidates under 18 years old. The Minister of Education, Mister Tahir Mamman, gave the directive in Abuja on Thursday at the 2024 Policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Although the announcement elicited mixed reactions from vice-chancellors,…
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has uncovered at least 1,665 fake A’level results during the Direct Entry registration process. The board’s weekly bulletin made available to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, said the Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, a professor, gave the figures when he received officials of the National Association of Nigeria Colleges of…
Following the failure of many A-level issuing institution to submit a verification report to JAMB, no fewer than 10,378 candidates, who wrote the Direct Entry examination organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in 2023, currently have their admission suspended. In February 2023, JAMB issued an advisory to guide candidates seeking to gain admissions…
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The House of Representatives has set up a committee to probe into discrepancies in the remittances of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to the the Federal Government. The decision to set up the committee followed the non reconciliation discovered in the books of the examination body and the account of the Office of the…
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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has stated that the extra money being paid by candidates was a charge by operators of Computer Based Test (CBT) centres to make up for the high cost of diesel. He stated this as he denied that the examination body increased the…
Read More “We Did Not Increase JAMB Fee, Oloyede Offers Explanations” »
An ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives has queried the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for recruiting about 300 staff without advertising the vacancies. The committee is investigating ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), parastatals, and tertiary institutions on personnel recruitment, employment racketeering, and the mismanagement of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information (IPPIS)….
Read More “H.O.R Panel Of Inquiries Queries Jamb Over Secret Recruitment” »