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The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede has disclosed that only 0.06 per cent representing about 803 of the more than 1.3 million candidates who sat for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination scored 300 and above. A total of 1,338,687 candidates registered for the 2021 UTME, which ... Read more

Parents of the students abducted by bandits from Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State have threatened to burn down the school if nothing is done to rescue their wards. A statement issued by the state government revealed that the bandits, on Monday, shot sporadically as they advanced to the school’s hostels and abducted an ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday raised concerns about tertiary institutions awarding fake certificates to persons who did not deserve them. The organisation also accused some of the institutions of conniving with some persons to destroy the education sector. The Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, ... Read more

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to grant Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, bail on alleged fraud preferred against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. Justice Obiora Egwuatu declined the oral application for bail by counsel to the defendant, P.O Olorunishola, SAN, after the ICPC lawyer, ... Read more

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka has said instead of cancelling a whole session due to the prolonged school closure following COVID-19 pandemic, it would rather admit only about 30% of its carrying capacity among the qualified candidates who sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The vice chancellor ... Read more

The Joint Admissions And Matriculation Board has said the poor results recorded in the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination is not due to “wrong syllabus” given to candidates for the exam. JAMB in a statement by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, said the questions set for the 2021 UTME are based ... Read more

The JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, has blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the poor performance of candidates in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. While appearing on a live programme on a Nigerian Television Authority’s tagged “Weekend File”, Oloyede confirmed that this year’s UTME results were ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Saturday announced the suspension of the USSD code 55019 to check results. Recall that the board had advised candidates However, a terse statement by JAMB’s Head of Media and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Saturday said the USSD code 55019 is saddled with some ... Read more

Authorities of the University of Lagos are considering the suspension of one of its students, Chidinma Ojukwu, who allegedly stabbed the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, to death. Sources in the university’s Senate, on Friday, said that the student’s action was contrary to the provisions of the institution’s ... Read more

The Governing Council of the University of Ibadan in Oyo State has cancelled the ongoing process for the appointment of a substantive Vice-Chancellor of the institution. The council made this disclosure via a statement made available to DAILY POST on Sunday. Our correspondent learnt that the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor was stalled last year ... Read more