•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 increased fees paid for registration of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation 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 Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has hinted of plans to begin prosecution of parents who aid their ward or children in examination malpractices. Oloyede gave the hints while monitoring the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam...
•JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede Following the admission of error in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, education consultant, Julius Opara, has called for a review of the body’s exam process, while emphasising the...
•UTME candidates No fewer than 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 average mark in the Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination after the recent resit organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination Board, following the technical and human errors that marred the original exam. In the resit UTME results released yester...
•Late Timilehin and her father, Femi Opesusi Femi Opesusi, the father of the late Timilehin Opesusi, the 19-year-old who died after ingesting rodent poison following a low score of 146 in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), tells our correspondent how his daughter’s death has left the family heartbroken. He recounts the...
•UTME candidates and Ohanaeze logo The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, today, rejected the decision by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to schedule a fresh examination for candidates affected by what it termed “errors” in the recently released Unified Tertiary...
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