Tag: Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board

JAMB announces new feature in UTME registration

Aminu Imam

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), has announced a new feature in the on-going registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME). The exam body, in a statement issued yesterday by its Head of Media and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, said the feature: ‘Know Your Registration Officer,’ aims to fortify the registration process. According to Benjamin, the new feature will also guard candidates against abuse and manipulation. Benjamin further noted that candidates who are applying for the 2021 UTME, which is due to close on 15th May 2021 are…

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JAMB loses over N10m to fraudsters – Registrar

Aminu Imam

The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said the Board lost over N10 million in 2020. Oloyede told newsmen at the JAMB’s headquarters yesterday, in Abuja, that the fraudsters penetrated the Board’s payment portal for ad-hoc staff. He said that the money, which was meant to pay JAMB Adhoc staff from the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME), was hijacked by the suspected fraudsters. Oloyede, however, said that the Board investigated the illegality, tracked and finally apprehended 10 of the suspects in Kaduna, Nasarawa and…

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JAMB cancels use of e-mail for UTME registration

Aminu Imam

The use of emails is no longer required for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) registration, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced. This announcement was made by Prof Ishaq Oloyede while addressing newsmen in Abuja. Oloyede said consequently, candidates will have the following options to access their profile during or after registration. “As from Thursday, 15th April, 2021, candidates will no longer be required to provide any email address during registration.” “The use of Mobile APP on the candidates’ phone and on the…

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Breaking! JAMB voids admissions offered by UniAbuja, others

Aminu Imam

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), has disowned admissions being offered by the University of Abuja and few others, alleging that the admissions were being offered by the institutions outside the Central Admissions Processing System, (CAPS). The examination board warned candidates against accepting the offers. The board, in a statement, Tuesday evening by its Head, Public Affaires and Protocols, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, insisted “that such admissions that have not been proposed, approved nor accepted on the Central Admissions Processing System are null and void and as such, asking hapless…

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JAMB shifts registration for 2021 UTME, DE

Aminu Imam

…As WAEC Debunks May/June 2021 WASSCE postponement, announces reschedule The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has shifted the commencement of registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry to a later date. A statement issued by the Boards Head of Media and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in Abuja, said the delay follows the exam body’s effort to ensure that candidates have access to its registration app for the 2021 UTME/DE and also finalise work on its pin vending process before the take-off of the exercise. The…

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“We made N400m from Change-of-Birth dates in 1 yr”, says JAMB Registrar

Aminu Imam

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede, has disclosed that the organisation generated N400 million from change of birth dates by applicants in his first year in office. The Registrar, Oloyede, who was appointed JAMB registrar in July 2016 said people were coming to change their dates of birth on JAMB portal in order to meet the requirements to participate in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). These statement were made by the JAMB boss in a presentation he made at the 2021 Batch…

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