The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says there is no exemption on biometric verification for all candidates of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board made this known in its Vol. 1, No 11 weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed April 11 for the commencement of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The examination is expected to hold for about a week across the country. The board also said the mock examination which was earlier scheduled to hold on March 23 will now hold April […]
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) says its senior secondary certificate exam (SSCE) will soon be converted to a computer-based exam. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Olu Adenipekun, the council’s head of Nigeria national office, said the CBT test would start with its objective questions. “In about two weeks, we should be concluding […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has recorded mass failure in its 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates held in January. This is the second time the examination body will record mass failure in its January examination since its introduction in 2018. Announcing the results in Lagos on Tuesday, the […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will not rescind its decision on the use of biometrics in the conduct of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This is contained in the board’s weekly bulletin issued on Sunday in Lagos. According to the bulletin, the importance of biometrics in the conduct of the […]
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has registered over 1.8 million candidates for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. We are prepared for 2019 UTME – JAMB Head, Media and Information of the board, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, yesterday. Registration of candidates for all […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is considering shifting the date of this year’s examination, an official has said. This development comes as an effect of the postponed 2019 general election. The polls were to open on February 16 with the presidential and parliamentary elections until the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced a […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says not less than 1.8 million candidates would be registered for its 2019 UTME by the end of the registration exercise scheduled for February 21. The agency also says over 1.6 million candidates have registered for the examination. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed the […]
The Nigerian government has proposed N50 billion for the completion of National Library headquarters in Abuja, 13 years after the project was first conceived. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this on Friday at the seventh edition of the Weekend Ministerial Press Briefing in Abuja. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the Senate in October 2017 […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reached an agreement with the federal government to end the over three months strike. The agreement was reached and a deal was signed at a meeting in Abuja on Thursday. Chris Ngige, minister of labour, led the government’s delegation while Abiodun Ogunyemi, president of ASUU, led the […]