President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Prof. Ishaq Oloyede as  Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)  for another five years. Buhari also approved the reappointment of the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) Prof. Adamu Rasheed, for another five years tenure. The approval is contained in a statement  by Mr…

Last week, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, revealed the success and failure rates from the recently concluded UTME, which is the only means of securing admission into higher institutions in Nigeria.

The controversy over cost of registration for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) persisted, yesterday, as Joint Admission and Matriculation Board JAMB) and Baptist Mission disagreed on amount charged.

If wide reports of the hardship Nigerians are facing to obtain National Identification Number (NIN) are anything to go by, the decision by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to link its examination ....

Over a dozen fraudsters have gained access into an intranet site of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and altered profiles of the board’s ad hoc staff, diverting over N10 million meant for their allowances.

Over a dozen fraudsters have gained access into an intranet site of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and altered profiles of the board’s ad hoc staff, diverting over N10 million meant for their allowances. JAMB registrar Prof Ishaq Oloyede said the board uncovered the fraud after a careful investigation, which led to the…

Registrar of Joint Admission And Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has said the board introduced the use of National Identity Number (NIN) for the registration of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to checkmate examination malpractices. Oloyede, who spoke in Abuja on Friday during a virtual meeting with owners of Computer Based Test…

• Empowers youths with entrepreneurship skills The Nasiru llahi-l-Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) has enjoined the Muslim elites to take up the duty of religious propagation. The society made this call during the Webinar symposium to celebrate the 70th birthday of its pioneer president, who is now the Chairman, Board of Trustee, Alhaji Abdullateef Wale…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has delisted over 22 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres for allegedly defrauding 11,823 of its candidates to the tune of N59 million. The registrar and chief executive officer of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who made this known during a virtual meeting with representatives of the affected centres on Thursday,…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that post- Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME) screening for the 2020 admission processes will now begin not earlier than September 7, 2020 in the universities

The Joint Admissions and Ma­triculation Board (JAMB) has made an interim remit­tance of N3.5 billion to the Federal Government con­solidated revenue account.

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has indicted some of its accredited registration centres across the country for allegedly partaking in cyber fraud in the ongoing 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)/ Direct Entry registration.