Jamb News

JAMB has revealed that about 1,287,548 candidates have been registered in the ongoing 2021 UTME registration while over 63,586 candidates have been registered for the Direct Entry as of May 23rd, 2021. This was contained in the weekly bulletin publication of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) via its official website. The registration exercise continue and will end saturday, ... Read more

As the preparations for the conduct of the 2021UTME/DE hots up, the Board has announced the training schedule for Technical Officers and other key staff to be involved in the conduct of the 2021 Mock- UTME which is scheduled to hold anytime between Monday, 24th to Friday, 28th May, 2021. The training, which is held every year preceding the conduct of both the Mock and UTME exercise, is to keep ... Read more

The Matriculation Examination(UTME) notification slip is ready for printing. All candidates who had registered for the examination scheduled to take between Saturday, June 19, 2021, and July 3, 2021, are to begin printing the 2021 UTME notification slip from Monday, 14th June 2021. The examination notification is necessary to enable candidates to know the location of their ... Read more

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) releases a special notes to all jamb examination officials and candidates, through it weekly bulletin.The special notes is as follows; Biometric Verification will be the only mode for the admittance of candidates into the examination centre. Strict adherence to the guide on compulsory biometric verification of every candidate is required. ... Read more

To ensure a hitch-free 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) and Direct Entry (DE), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has met with the chairmen and members of the various groups as well as other key players to tightening all loose ends and ensure a successful exercise. The meetings, which were all held virtually on Wednesday, June 2021, commenced ... Read more

The senate committee on Education, Basic and Secondary, has commended the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) for the successful conduct of the 2021 UTME/DE as well as the various landmark achievements it has recorded under the current leadership of the Board. The committee also hinted that it would pursue with vigour, the amendment of the law establishing the Board to address the ... Read more

In what seems like a stock-taking of his stewardship, particularly with regard to the recently-conducted 2021 UTME, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has listed challenges militating against the successful delivery of some aspects of the Board's operations. The Registrar, at a presentation before the Senate Committee on Education, ... Read more

The Deputy Chairman of the 2021 Virtue Vanguard Group(VVG), Professor Musbau A. Akanji, has congratulated the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) for the successful conduct of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME). In the same vein, the Don commended the Registrar's tenacity on the use of National Identification Number(NIN) stating that the new ... Read more

Following detailed investigation and careful analysis of the highly-successful 2021 UTME, and with due consultation (resulting in gracious concession) with the National Examination Council (NECO) concerning the timetable of the council’s ongoing SSCE, JAMB has scheduled a Mop-up UTME for Friday, 6th August, 2021, in some selected locations across the nation. About 18,000 candidates ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has successfully conducted the 2021 Mop-Up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The examination was held nationwide on 6th July 2021. Prior to the conduct of the examination, the Board had specified the targeted categories of candidates as: those who could not be initially scheduled for examination owing to their inability to timely procure ... Read more