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JAMB Makes Case For Exam Fee Hike, Seeks Financial Autonomy

September 15, 2022 5:12 am

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has called on the House of Representatives Committee on Finance to consider granting it financial autonomy by removing it from the list of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies in the annual budget of the Federal Government.

This is even as JAMB made a case for a reversal of the recent reduction of the examination fee from ₦5,000 to ₦3,500.

JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, made this appeal in Abuja on Wednesday at the public hearing on the proposed 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper organised by the committee.

Oloyede, however, pointed out …

Why We Canceled Use Of Email For UTME Registration - JAMB

ICPC: JAMB Raises Alarm Over Fraud Allegations Against Officers

August 5, 2022 9:49 am

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has raised an alarm over a series of smear campaigns and fraud allegations against its management and officers.

Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, had announced that the smear campaign was sponsored by those against the board’s reforms which have blocked their sources of illicit wealth. Benjamin had also alleged that those behind the falsehood are using a faceless non-governmental organization, NGO, to circulate the concocted allegations.

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In a statement by the signed, Benjamin urged security agencies to …

Why We Canceled Use Of Email For UTME Registration – JAMB

April 15, 2021 1:12 am

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that the use of email is no longer required for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) registration.

Prof Ishaq Oloyede, who made this disclosure while addressing newsmen in Abuja, revealed that 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.’

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Speaking further, the JAMB boss said the new system is to …

UTME: Why NIN Is Compulsory For Registration – JAMB Registrar

March 26, 2021 10:48 am

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it made use of the National Identity Number (NIN) for registration of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) compulsory, in a bid to checkmate examination malpractices.

JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, stated this during a virtual meeting with owners of Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres on Friday.

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According to Oloyede, the idea was also for security reasons.

He said: ‘We don’t even require the name of the candidate, we just want the NIN we will then do the needful to

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JAMB lists universities that will not admit candidates with less than 200

JAMB Lists UNIs That Won’t Admit Candidates With Less Than 200

June 23, 2020 5:20 am

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has made it clear that some universities will not offer admission to candidates that score less than 200.

They include: University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, Covenant University, Obafemi Awolowo University and University of Benin.

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This was disclosed in a statement signed by JAMB’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, on Monday in Abuja.

Fabian also listed higher institutions that will not admit candidates that scored less than 180 in its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) this year.

“For the 2020 admission exercise, for

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JAMB Remittance To Federal Purse Excites Nigerians

May 5, 2020 3:20 pm

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been trending all day in Twitter Nigeria as the exam body gets the accolade of Nigerians for remitting yet some new billions to the Federal treasury.

JAMB announced on Monday that it has made an interim remittance of ₦3.5 billion to the Federal Government consolidated revenue account, although lower than the ₦5billion remitted last year.

The agency has phenomenally improved remittances since Professor Ishaq Oloyede took over in 2017.

In the same year, the agency remitted ₦7.8billion, a sharp contrast to 2015 and 2016 when no dime was remitted.

In 2014, the …

2020 UTME: JAMB Finally Shuts Down Result Portal

March 18, 2020 12:17 pm

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday urged candidates to check results using their telephone numbers because its portal has been shut down.

Recall that the board on Monday, released results of 312,000 candidates who sat for the exam on Saturday.

However, candidates were on Tuesday unable to check their results.

Speaking on the developments, Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said it had shut down its portal following attempt by some fraudsters to alter results of candidates.

”Results of the 469,000 candidates who wrote on Monday

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No Extension After Jan 17 As JAMB Records Highest Inputs

February 17, 2020 3:42 am

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday, said there will be no extension of registration after Monday, January 17.

It also disclosed that nearly 2 million prospective candidates have registered for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the highest ever.

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“There will be no extension for the registration of candidates for both the UTME and the Direct Entry (DE) as being speculated in some quarters”, Fabian Benjamin, Head of Media and Information, told reporters.

“Registration for this year’s examination ends by 12 midnight of Feb. 17, and

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