•JAMB candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has published the minimum UTME cut-off marks approved by universities nationwide for the 2026 admission cycle. The benchmarks, submitted by individual institutions, were presented to journalists during the 2026 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions held in Abu...
•JAMB candidates Candidates seeking admission into Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) programmes in colleges of education will no longer be required to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, announced this today during JAMB’s 2026 policy meeting in Abuja. Under the new guidel...
•JAMB candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has retained 150 as the cut-off mark for admission into universities for the 2026/27 academic session. JAMB announced this during its policy meeting in Abuja today, where it said the decision followed a vote of vice-chancellors available at the meeting, reports Channels TV. I...
•Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that candidates seeking admission into Education programmes and Agriculture-related non-engineering courses in College of Education and Polytechnics will no longer be required to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The board disc...
•The suspects The Nigeria Police Force, in collaboration with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has uncovered and disrupted a sophisticated examination malpractice syndicate during the conduct of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at the College of Education, Warri, Delta State. Force Public Relations...
•JAMB candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday, commenced the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), enlisting over 2.2 million candidates to sit for the weeklong examination, across the country. This year’s UTME comes after an earlier Mock examination to enable candidates get used to the Comput...
•JAMB candidates The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has written off speculation that it has inÂcreased fees paid for registration of the Unified Tertiary MatricuÂlation Examination (UTME). It said the fees had remained the same since 2019, noting that in 2018, the Federal Executive Council approved a reduction in the UTME appli...
As qualified candidates who have attained the right prerequisites for admission into the nations tertiary institutions are getting set, the Joint Admissions Matriculation (JAMB), today, hinted that there will be no hike in the current fee regime charged by the Board. With this development, intending candidates for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Mat...
•UTME candidates Data released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board during its 2025 policy meeting today revealed that Computer-Based Test Centres in Imo and Anambra states topped the list of CBT Centres nabbed for fingerprinting malpractices. In total, about 19 centres were nabbed nationwide, with Anambra having six, Imo with four,...
•JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede Registrar and Chief ExÂecutive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has hinted of plans to begin proseÂcution of parents who aid their ward or children in examination malpractices. Oloyede gave the hints while monitoring the Unified TertiaÂry Matriculation Exam...

