JAMB candidate arrested for upgrading score
Friday, 05 July 2019
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A 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidate allegedly involved in faking of result, has been arrested by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Abuja. The suspect, Cletus Kokowa, was arrested on Thursday, by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, when he visited JAMB office to complain after he employed fraudsters to upgrade his
JAMB kicks against establishment of new universities
Monday, 24 June 2019
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Professor Is-haq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has called on the Federal Government to place an embargo on the establishment of new universities. Oloyede stated this during the 4th convocation lecture of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa state this weekend. The Registrar, in the board’s Weekly Bulletin released by JAMB’s
Alex Iwobi: Eagles won’t rely on star players against Burundi
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
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Alex Iwobi has revealed that working together as a team can prove to be the greatest asset for the Super Eagles going to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations which begins on Friday in Egypt. Iwobi said in an interview that not relying on one player has helped the squad since Gernot Rohr took charge
AFCON: Eagles ready to soar – Mikel Obi
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
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After more than two weeks of intensive preparations, John Obi Mikel, says the Super Eagles are ready for their opening match of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations against the Swallows of Burundi on Saturday in Alexandria. The Eagles’ captain made this declaration when the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Mr Amaju Pinnick
Explainer: Why JAMB set 160 as cutoff mark for 2019 university admission
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has come under renewed attack after it announced the approval of the national minimum benchmark for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2019/2020 academic session. JAMB announced that students who score at least 160 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME), which has a maximum score of 400,
Teenage Inmates Break Record In JAMB Exam
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
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Contrary to the view that Nigeria’s reformatory/juvenile remand centres are not living up to expectation, 13 Borstal Training Institution Students of Abeokuta in Ogun State, have scored above the 160-benchmark set by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB). The public relations officer, Borstal School, Abeokuta, Yusuf Raji, in a statement said, the students who performed
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INEC should emulate JAMB’s Ishaq Oloyede
Monday, 20 May 2019
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For longer than makes sense, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has on a yearly basis been at the mercy of two Nigerian groups-the political class and the security agencies. In the case of the politicians, all they always did was to organize phony and rancorous party primaries, vote buying and every electoral malpractice that
2019 UTME: JAMB remits N5 billion to Nigerian govt
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it remitted N5 billion to the federal government’s purse after the conduct of its 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This is contained in the board’s weekly bulletin signed by the JAMB’s Head of Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, on Monday in Lagos. Mr Benjamin explained later
JAMB releases 2019 UTME results
Saturday, 11 May 2019
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has announced the release of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. The results of the April 11 and 17 university admissions tests had long been expected, but the board said they were delayed by investigations into suspected cheating. At a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, the
JAMB: How to check your 2019 UTME result
Saturday, 11 May 2019
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has given directions on how candidates who sat for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations in April could check their results. JAMB JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, instructed that candidates only need to send ‘RESULT’ to the short code, 55019, on their handsets and that visitng a cyber