The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that it will on Wednesday release the results of 379,000 candidates who sat the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination between Friday and Monday. JAMB rescheduled the exam following widespread outcry over mass failure during the initial UTME. The board admitted to technical and human errors, especially in…
Following the low pass rate recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), many students across the country have been left anxious and uncertain about their next steps. The disappointing results have sparked widespread concern, especially among candidates who had high hopes of gaining admission…
The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Joint Campus Council (JCC), Oyo Axis, is proud to announce a significant development following constructive engagement with the management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH). After a series of deliberations and advocacy efforts, NANS JCC Oyo has successfully secured the reversal of the N500…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination for 206,610 candidates in Lagos and 173,387 in the South East commenced on Friday with candidates across the two zones expressing satisfaction with the exercise. Lagos has resit exams in 65 centres while 93 are in the South East. In all the centres visited by Saturday Tribune…
The Minister of Education, Mr. Tunji Alausa, has announced that tertiary institutions with fewer than 2,000 students will no longer be eligible for funding from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. Speaking on Friday at a one-day engagement with heads of institutions, bursars, and procurement directors in Lagos, Alausa said the Federal Government was repositioning the…
The Minister of Education, Mr. Tunji Alausa, has lamented that 85 per cent of Nigerian students sent abroad on government scholarships never returned to contribute to national development. This came as he announced that tertiary institutions with fewer than 2,000 students will no longer be eligible for funding from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. Speaking…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given an assurance that the resit exam will not clash with the ongoing West African Examinations Council (WAEC). The body reacted to concern being expressed by some candidates. JAMB, in its X handle, said: “We’re in synergy with WAEC, necessary action will be taken to avoid clash…
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has rejected the plan by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to conduct a fresh examination for candidates affected by errors in the recently released UTME results. This comes after JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Wednesday admitted that technical errors had affected candidates’ scores in the five…
Former presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore, has called for scrapping of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), and Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), describing them as “useless.” Sowore made this known in a post on his X account following JAMB’s recent admission…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has begun the rescheduling of the 379,997 affected candidates for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination. The rescheduling began on Thursday morning after the registrar of the examination body, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made it known in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. Oloyede admitted errors in the just-concluded…