The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has admitted responsibility for the mass failure that trailed the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, fought tears at a press conference on Wednesday, while admitting to the ugly development. He announced that about 379,997 candidates in the just concluded 2025 examination would retake…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board on Wednesday finally admitted to errors which affected the performance of students during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede admitted to this during an ongoing press briefing in Abuja. “What should have been a moment of joy has changed due to…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that 96 per cent of A-level results submitted to Bayero University, Kano (BUK) for Direct Entry admission in 2024 were forged. According to the examination body in its bulletin, out of 148 A-level results presented to BUK, only six were genuine, while the remaining 142 were…
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, on Wednesday, declared that there was no fraud uncovered in the student loan scheme. Alausa made this known at the end of a meeting held with Vice Chancellors, officials of the National Universities Commission, Nigerian Education Loan Fund and the Federal Ministry of Education. Alausa also described the…
The sexual harassment allegation by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has surfaced in an examination question at the Department of Sociology, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto state. The political crisis in Rivers state which led to the declaration of the state of emergency by President Bola Tinubu also made it into the…
South West Secretary of the Police Campaign Against Cultism And Other Vices, POCACOV, Prince Gbemisola Obadeyi, has attributed the recent failure of 1.5 million candidates in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to cultism, internet fraud otherwise known as Yahoo Yahoo, and social media abuse. Obadeyi lamented that these vices had become a major…
The federal government has announced the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in curriculum delivery, saying it was committed to delivering inclusive, future-ready education. Minister of Education, Olatunji Alausa said this during the International Conference on Smart Education (ICSE) 2025 organised by the Universal Basic Education (UBEC) in collaboration with the Korean International Co-operation Agency (KOICA)….
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it would review the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) process following a surge in complaints from candidates nationwide. The development was confirmed in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja by the Board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin. The Board, which released the 2025 UTME results last Friday,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday officially responded to public complaints about its recently released 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results. The Board described as the complaints as “unusual complaints” while adding that it came from few states of the Federation. While JAMB said it acknowledges the complaints, it is currently fast forwarding…
Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has elected a consultant psychiatrist at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital, Prof. Chris Piwuna, as its new president. Piwuna, who doubles as the Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Jos, takes over from Victor Osodeke, a professor of soil science from the Michael Okpara University…