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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has retained 150 as the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2026/2027 academic session, maintaining the benchmark adopted last year despite widespread criticism from stakeholders who argued that the score was too low. The decision was announced on Monday during JAMB’s annual policy meeting…
Nigerian government has announced a major policy shift in her tertiary education admission, scrapping writing of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. for admission into the Nigeria Certificate of Education programme ( NCE) and the National Diploma programme in Agriculture. Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, disclosed that during the ongoing 2026 policy meeting organised by…
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, has described as fake a widely circulated result slip claiming that a candidate from Cross River State scored 394 in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.In a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB described the result as a fabrication and urged Nigerians to disregard it.The…
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who sat for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18, respectively.In a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the board disclosed that a total of 1,264,940 results from the two days have been…
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB)on Friday announced the release of 632,788 results from the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), conducted on Thursday, April 16. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the Board directed candidates to check their results by sending “UTMERESULT” via SMS to 55019 or 66019, using the…
Following concerns raised at different quarters concerning early morning time scheduled for arrival and examination, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a slight adjustment to the arrival time for candidates sitting the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), particularly those scheduled for the first session. In a notice issued via its official…
Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Is-haq Oloyede, has stated that the board is not responsible for the failure of some Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates to be mobilised for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).He made the clarification during a meeting with leaders of the National Association of Polytechnic Students in…