The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said on Tuesday that it had begun the screening of the results of over 1.3 million candidates who had written the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, so as to fish out impersonation, multiple registrations and other forms of malpractices. The board said it had therefore not yet released any […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday said it has uncovered and arrested over 50 ‘Professional Examination Writers’ who specialised in writing examination for candidates for a fee. The board’s weekly official bulletin, tagged: ‘JAMBULLETIN’, signed by JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria […]
The National Universities Commission (NUC) said it is processing about 303 new applications for the establishment of private universities in Nigeria. Nigeria currently has about 170 universities (43 federal universities, 48 state-owned universities, and 79 private universities). The NUC chief, Abubakar Rasheed, said this in Abuja at a two-day summit on Nigerian private universities. The […]
The National Examinations Council on Thursday said it had postponed the 2019 National Common Entrance Examination into unity schools, due to low registration of candidates. The common entrance, which takes candidates to Junior Secondary School 1, was earlier scheduled for April 13, but the council noted that it had now shifted it to April 27, […]
A self-acclaimed professor, identified only as Jide, has been arrested by operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, after he was caught assisting his daughter during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in the Jabi area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board confirmed Jide’s arrest on Thursday, which […]
The 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) kicked off across the country on Thursday with logistic and technical hitches recorded in a few computer-based test centres used for the conduct of the examination. There was confusion at 3MS Multi-Dynamic Services, a computer-based test centre in Jos, Plateau State, where the centre operator, Augustine Omogbe, was […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says there is no clash between its timetable and that of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) as being widely speculated and criticised. The JAMB Registrar, Is’haq Oloyede, said at an interactive session with Editors in Lagos on Tuesday, that there was no basis for such speculation because […]
The results of about 50,000 candidates who took part in the mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have been released on Tuesday evening. Disclosing this in a telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES, the head of Media and Public Relations unit of the examination body, Fabian Benjamin, said […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will not condone lateness by candidates to its 2019 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), scheduled for Monday. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. NAN reports that a […]
Ahead of the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME), the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB) said the board had introduced innovations its successful conduct. The registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in Abuja on Monday at a meeting on strategic planning and preparations for the supervision and evaluation of the examination. He said ”a robust […]