JAMB To Reduce 180 Cut-Off Mark For Admission Seekers

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced flexible cut-off marks, in doing so, may approve the reduction of 180 cut-off mark for admission to tertiary institutions.The disclosure was made on Monday by the Registrar of the Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, at the second technical committee meeting on “2016 Admissions to Tertiary Institutions” held at the Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri.Oloyede stated that the...

Read More

#Recession: JAMB Too Broke To Conduct UTME – Registrar

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has expressed that inadequate funding posed a challenge to the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.Speaking on Wednesday, when he received a delegation of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institution and Tertiary Education Trust Fund in his office in Bwari, Abuja, the Registrar, JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, said: “The major challenge facing the board has to do with...

Read More

UTME Result 3-Year Validity: Senate Suspends Amendment Of JAMB Act

The Senate on Wednesday suspended the amendment of the Act establishing the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) so as to allow for adequate consultation with stakeholders.The upper chamber had earlier ratified the extension of the validity of the results of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) being conducted by JAMB to three years.According to the senate, the decision was granted to lessen the financial burden of the...

Read More

Breaking! JAMB Result Can Now Last For 3 Years Instead Of 1 Year… See Full Details

The Nigerian senate has, according to reports, extended the validity of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result to three years.JAMB results, normally are valid for just a year, but the upper legislative chamber on Thursday passed an amendment bill to extend its lifespan to three years.Presenting the report of his committee on the bill, Jibrin Barau, chairman, senate committee on tertiary education and the Tertiary Education Trust...

Read More

Confirm!! JAMB Scraps the use of Scratch Card for it’s Transactions(Read Details)

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has scrapped the use of scratch cards for any of its services and transactions, adding that it would now be using the platform of pin vending to check all forms of fraudulent practices which was prevalent with the use of scratch cards.This means Webpay interswitch will replace the use of Scratch cards.A statement issued on Sunday by the spokesperson of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, reports the board’s...

Read More

FINALLY JAMB Validity Extended To 3 years

The Nigerian Senate has passed the amendment to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board's Act #JAMBBILL SB. 245 into law. Part of the amendment is the extension of the validity of JAMB UTME results to 3 years WOW!!.This new amendments will indeed bring financial relief to students as well as parent and reduce bottlenecks and corruption in the admission proce...

Read More

JAMB Report: The Reasons Why UNILORIN Is The Most Preferred Tertiary Institution in Nigeria

Earlier this week, the University of Ilorin (Unilorin) in Kwara State, emerged the ‘2016 university of first choice’ among student-applicants in Nigeria.A survey ‘painstakingly’ carried out by the Economic Confidential, using computed and analyzed details as approved by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on preferred first university of choice in 2016, showed that Unilorin had the highest student-applicants of 103,238 students, with...

Read More