JAMB announces date for 2022 UTME, D/Entry registration

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), has announced the date of registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the Direct Entry (D/E) examination. The examination body revealed this in its weekly bulletin released by its Director of Public Relations, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, on Monday, in Abuja. JAMB, in its timeline of events attached to the weekly bulletin, disclosed that the registration will commence by February 12, 2022. It also disclosed that the mock examination would be held on the 20th April 2022, while UTME holds from 20th…

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Just In! JAMB announces date for 2022 UTME, D/E registration

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), has announced the date of registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the Direct Entry (D/E) examination. The examination body, revealed this in its weekly bulletin released by its Director of Public Relations, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, on Monday, in Abuja. JAMB, in its timeline of events attached to the weekly bulletin, disclosed that the registration will commence by February 12, 2022. It also disclosed that the mock examination would be held on the 20th April 2022, While UTME holds from 20th…

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Just In: JAMB cancels UTME cut-off marks

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), has cancelled the traditional national cut-off marks for admissions into Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education in the country. This means that institutions are now at liberty to set their minimum benchmark for admissions into their various institutions as approved, on Tuesday, at the 2021 policy meeting on administrations to tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The policy meeting which was held virtually was presided over by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Education Arc.…

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Just In: Buhari reappoints Oloyede as JAMB Registrar, others

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, reappointed Ishaq Oloyede as Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for a second term of five years. The President also approved the reappointment of Prof Abubakar Rasheed as Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, (NUC), for another five years and Hamid Bobboyi as Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, (UBEC), for a second term of four years. The Director, Press and Public Affairs, Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Bem Goong, in an issued statement on Friday, said the…

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No fresh UTME for candidates – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB),  says it has not fixed another examination for any category of candidates on July 3 as being peddled in some quarters. The Board’s Head of Media and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, told newsmen yesterday in Lagos that the report “is not correct”. Benjamin noted that almost all results of candidates, who sat for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, have since been released. According to him, JAMB has at no point thereafter, announced any form of another examination for any category of candidates.…

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JAMB suspends use of USSD code to check UTME results 

…Gives new instruction The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), has announced the suspension of the use of USSD code to check the just-released results of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME). This is as a result of the current challenges being experienced with the use of the USSD code by the candidates. This was made known by JAMB in a statement issued by the Spokesman of the Board, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, yesterday. Benjamin, in the statement, said that candidates are now expected to visit JAMB’s website to access…

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JAMB releases 2021 UTME results

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) yesterday released results of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates who wrote the test between last Saturday and Tuesday. The JAMB Head of Media, Fabian Benjamin, who disclosed this in an issued statement in Abuja, said the results for the subsequent tests would be released daily. He directed candidates to check their results by sending: “UTMERESULT” to 55019, through the GSM number used by each candidate to obtain profile code and UTME registration. Benjamin further said, “The Board notes with…

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JAMB releases 2021 mock UTME results

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) has announced the release of the result for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mock exam which was conducted on June 3. This disclosure was made by JAMB’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, through a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja yesterday. The mock examination, which was earlier scheduled for May 20, is part of the preparatory exercise that is used to get the candidates ready for the 2021 main UTME examination, which was shifted from June 19, to July…

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JAMB says candidates to pay N700 for mock UTME slated for June 3

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), has announced that candidates should pay the sum of N700 to their assigned Computer-Based Test centres before taking their mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Thursday, June 3, 2021. The payment is different from the N3,500 fee paid by the candidates for the UTME forms and N500 for reading text. This disclosure is contained in a statement issued by JAMB through a tweet post on its official Twitter handle yesterday. The tweet post from JAMB reads: “All candidates sitting the 2021 Mock…

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JAMB extends 2021 UTME, Direct Entry registration

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), yesterday announced that the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME) and Direct Entry, (DE), earlier slated for June 3 will now commence from June 19 to July 3. The Board stated these in a communique issued at the end of a two–day meeting in Abuja. The Board also announced a two weeks extension for candidates to register, saying the registration exercise will end on May 29. It further said that the Mock UTME earlier scheduled for 20th May will now hold on June…

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