The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said no fewer than six federal agencies are helping the examination body to recover its money allegedly stolen by some of its officials. The agencies, according to Oloyede, are the police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Nigeria Security and Civil […]
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As part of efforts to improve on the credibility and tamper proof exercise, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has prohibited sixteen (16) items in the coming examination for all registered candidates. In a document made available to media outfits, the examination body said candidates who intend to seat for the upcoming examination would […]
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The sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has lamented the “very high level” of corruption in Nigeria. He noted that Nigerians must fight the scourge of corruption to a “terminal end”. Sultan Abubakar III made the remark on Wednesday while speaking at the public presentation of ‘Dynamics of Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences’, a book […]
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), on 15 February 2018, inducted the first indigenous operational Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) nicknamed, Tsaigumi. The Tsaigumi UAV, which was produced by NAF Aerospace Engineers in collaboration with UAVision of Portugal, would be used for Intelligence Surveillance and Recognisance (ISR) operations in land and sea domains. It could also be […]
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Fresh fraud cases have been uncovered in offices of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board totalling N83m in Kano, Edo, Kogi, Gombe and Plateau states. PUNCH reported that while the board was investigating N31m misappropriated revenue in Edo and N20m in Kano, it was quizzing officials in Plateau and Gombe over N15m and N10m mismanaged in the […]
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A sales clerk in the office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Benue state, Philomina Chieshe, has denied saying the N36 million kept in her custody was swallowed by a snake. Chieshe had reportedly told Ishaq Oloyode, JAMB registrar, and his team that she could not account for N36 million she made in […]
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The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, on Tuesday stormed the Abuja national office of the Joints Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB with anti-snake venom and snake charmers, according to a report in Premium Times. The Senator’s visit is in response to raging controversies over a viral story that a staff of the examination body […]
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has addressed a bizarre report trending of a snake swallowing N36 million from the vault of one of its state branches. The board said the case was that of pure criminality and fraud on the part of one of its staff. According to a report in Sun news […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced it is extending registration for 2018 UTME till midnight of Sunday, 11th February, 2018. JAMB said it took the decision “albeit with great hesitation to accommodate candidates who failed to register between the two months window period that ended at midnight of Tuesday, 6th February, 2018”. […]
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The Senate at the plenary on Wednesday resolved to investigate former registrars of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board over low remittances during their administration of the board. The probe will also be extended to the National Examinations Council and the West African Examination Council. WAEC is an international examination body for the West African […]
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