JAMB remitted N7.8bn to FG from 2016 UTME — Oloyede

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday said it remitted N7.8 billion to Federal Government coffers from 2016 University and Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The board’s Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, made this known when a delegation from National Officers Council of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) paid a visit to the […]

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2018 UTME registration begins Dec. 6

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB,) has fixed a date for the commencement of the sale of the 2018 application forms. The board said the sale and registration for all candidates including those from foreign countries will hold from December 6 to  February 6, 2018. The spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, said this in […]

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JAMB proposes date for 2018 UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has proposed March 9 to 17 as dates for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar revealed the proposed dates on Wednesday during a meeting in Abuja with critical stakeholders on the plans and programmes for the 2018 UTME and Direct Entry (DE). He […]

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Sales of 2018 UTME forms to start November as JAMB bans pens, wristwatches in centres

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, organisers of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, has banned the use of wrist watches and pens during the conduct of its 2018 test. The board’s Registrar, Is’haq Oloyede disclosed this to journalists on the sideline of a one-day sensitisation workshop for Computer Based Test, CBT, centre owners […]

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JAMB releases cut-off marks for admission

The registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede, on Tuesday in Abuja, disclosed that the examination body has fixed the cut off marks for tertiary institutions. He said the stakeholders unanimously agreed that the minimum cut-off marks for university degree is to stand at 120. The stakeholders, according to him, pegged […]

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The inside, untold story of the 2017 JAMB examination, By Reuben Abati

I attended a meeting recently at the headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Bwari, Abuja: the post-2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination review meeting chaired by the JAMB registrar, Professor Ish-aq Oloyede. Participants included Professor Oloyede and his technical team, field officers and other staff, all the Chief External Examiners who supervised the […]

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JAMB cancels results for 59,698 UTME candidates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB,  has now officially cancelled the results of 59,698 candidates over examination malpractices. JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Abuja at a news conference at the end of an enlarged meeting with external examiners and other stakeholders in the conduct of the 2017 UTME. […]

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JAMB: No UTME registration on Saturday

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced suspension of registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for one day. Addressing journalists in Abuja, the Registrar of the Board, Is-haq Oloyede, said candidates would not be able to register for the examination at Computer Based Test (CBT) centres across the country on Saturday, […]

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