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JAMB releases 2025 UTME resit, underage candidates’ results
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) resit results, including those of underage candidates. According to a terse statement on JAMB’s X handle, candidates who participated in the rescheduled examination are advised to check their results by sending UTMERESULT (in capital letters) via […]
JAMB releases 2025 UTME results, withholds 39,834 others
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Friday announced the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results. The board disclosed that it is withholding the results of 39,834 candidates over issues relating to examination irregularities. Recall that over 1.9 million applicants participated in the just-concluded exercise. JAMB also disclosed that 80 […]
We officially start at 8am – JAMB responds to Obi’s criticisms of early exam time
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has debunked criticisms by a former Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, over the early resumption time for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. DAILY POST recalls that Obi in a post on his official X handle on Sunday, publicly condemned reports of JAMB asking candidates, generally […]
JAMB suspends law programme in another Nigerian varsity
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has suspended the Bachelor of Laws, LL.B, programme in Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun state for the 2025/26 academic session. This was contained in a statement by the board’s Public Communications Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, on Friday in Abuja. It was reported that this is coming barely 48 hours after […]
Court stops JAMB from restricting underage students
The Delta State High Court in Warri has issued an order restraining the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board from implementing its recent policy requiring a minimum admissible age of 16 years for university admissions in the country pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed against the board. JAMB, in a statement […]
JAMB directs tertiary institutions to admit candidates below 18 years until next August
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has granted permission to tertiary institutions to continue the admission process for candidates who are 16 years old until August 2025. In a statement yesterday in Abuja by its Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the board explained that the decision was meant to ensure equity because of […]
Don’t blame us for your inability to participate in NYSC, JAMB tells HND graduates
… Says it has no business with HND admissions The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has asked HND graduates not to hold it responsible for their inability to participate in the recent National Youth Service Corps. The board was responding to claims by the prospective NYSC candidates that it was responsible for their inability […]
Fake degrees: Uganda, Kenya demand Nigerian students’ verificatio
Examination boards in Kenya and Uganda are now writing Nigeria to verify records presented by Nigerian candidates seeking admissions into tertiary institutions in their countries. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board made this known in a document for the 2024 policy meeting. JAMB noted in the document that it would not falsify the records of […]
Fake degrees: FG orders varsities to submit matriculation lists
The Federal Government has mandated all higher institutions in the country to “regularly submit their matriculation lists to the Federal Ministry of Education not later than three months after matriculation ceremonies.” The list, the government said, must be submitted “through the dedicated channel of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.” The initiative is one of […]
5,658 high-scoring UTME candidates miss admissions in four years
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, recent data obtained from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has revealed. It was reports that while tertiary institutions are at liberty to determine their respective benchmarks for admission, […]