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  • JAMB Extends 2023 UTME Registration Deadline

    JAMB Extends 2023 UTME Registration Deadline

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has extended its 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination registration by one week.

    The extension began from Wednesday, February 15, 2023.

    However, the sale of ePINs will end on February 20, 2023, while the UTME registration ends on Wednesday, February 22, 2023.

    The Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.

    “At the close of the sale of e-PINs on Tuesday, 14th February, 2023, 1,527,068 candidates had successfully registered for the 2023 UTME exercise inclusive of the 168,748, who indicated their interest to take the Mock-UTME,” the statement read.

    A total of 1,527,068 candidates had successfully registered for the 2023 UTME exercise.

  • JAMB Suspends UTME Registration Agents for Alleged Extortion

    JAMB Suspends UTME Registration Agents for Alleged Extortion

    The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has ordered the immediate suspension of three of its agents for allegedly charging more than the stipulated amount for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration.

    The registrar, during an inspection of some UTME registration centres in Lagos yesterday, discovered that the affected agents, Parkway Project, Digital Partners and SystemSpecs, charged candidates N5, 800 and N6,500 instead of N5,700.

    It was also discovered that a bank, in connivance with Remita, charged N8,700 for registration, but the candidate was issued a receipt of N5,700.

    Oloyede said the agents would be given an opportunity to defend their actions, and if their excuses are not justified, they will be banned from further transaction with the Board.

    While condemning the act, he stated that JAMB pays the agents weekly commission of 5 per cent of the money they realised, so there was no excuse for over-charging the candidates for registration, disclosing that the board has paid more than N300 million as commission to agents and CBT centres.

    He added that the action showed that they are not decent enough to participate in the registration exercise, calling for the collaboration of all stakeholders to make things right in the country.

    Asked why JAMB insisted on personal email addresses for all candidates, Oloyede said no important form can be completed without an email address, adding that it costs the board a lot of money to communicate with candidates via text messages, while email costs less.

    Oloyede insisted that the board would not extend the registration exercise beyond February 14, 2023, and more than 500,000 candidates have already registered.

  • JAMB Announces Registration Date For 2023 UTME

    JAMB Announces Registration Date For 2023 UTME

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it will commence registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from Saturday, January 14 to Tuesday, February 14, 2023.

    This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday by board’s Head of Media and Information, Mister Fabian Benjamin

    He said the examination body rolled out some major dates for its activities in 2023 at the end of its management meeting held in Abuja.

    JAMB’s spokesman, however, said this does not include registration for Direct Entry (DE) application documents as the Direct Entry registration would commence from Monday, 20th February to Thursday, 20th April 2023.

    The board also fixed Thursday, 16th march 2023, for the conduct of its optional mock UTME.

    According to the statement, candidates are to note that they would be required to pay the sum of N1000 service charge for the Computer-Based Test centres for the conduct of mock examination at the point of registration to prevent a situation where candidates would indicate their interest to sit the mock-UTME leading the various centres to commit human and material resources only for them to stay away on the day of the examination.

    The board, after considering its other commitments, fixed Saturday, 29th April 2023, for the conduct of the 2023 UTME which is expected to end on Monday, 12th May 2023.

  • 2023: Kwankwaso Unveils Blueprint, Promises free WAEC, JAMB registrations

    2023: Kwankwaso Unveils Blueprint, Promises free WAEC, JAMB registrations

    The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Tuesday, pledged that he would ensure that all entry examinations into tertiary institutions were free for Nigerians.

    According to him, his administration, if elected in 2023, would ensure that parents do not pay a dime as registration fees for the West African Examination Council, WAEC, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and National Examination Council.

    Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano State, said these his manifesto currently being presented to the public in Abuja.

    Aside from ensuring free examination forms, Kwankwaso said JAMB results under his government will have a lifespan of four years .

    The NNPP presidential candidate also pledged to mop up the 20 million out-of-school children in Nigeria in the next four years.

    In the document, Kwankwaso maintained that examination bodies are not revenue generating agencies and must not operate as such.

    He described as misnomer notion that any examination body will generate income and contribute to the federation accounts

    The document said, “Examination bodies are service agencies that facilitate access to higher education and training for our teaming young population.

    “For our administration, no Nigerian child shall be denied the Opportunity to write WAEC, NECO, JAMB, etc., because of their inability to pay exorbitant registration/examination fees. These examinations shall be free and all application forms for admission into Tertiary Education Institutions shall also be free;

    “These examination bodies will be adequately funded by the kwankwaso administration.

    “The notion that matriculation examination in Nigeria expires after one year will be stopped forthwith. JAMB results under the Kwankwaso government will have a lifespan of four years and TEIs will be required to accept these results for the purposes of admission.”

  • JAMB to Conduct Supplementary UTME for 67 Candidates

    JAMB to Conduct Supplementary UTME for 67 Candidates

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has scheduled a supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for Saturday, September 24, 2022.
    The affected are 67 candidates who registered but were unable to take the examination due to unforeseen circumstances.

    According to a statement issued by JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr. Febian Benjamin, candidates will take their exams at specially designated locations.

    According to Benjamin, following the 2022 UTME, the board reviewed the entire process and candidates who had biometric challenges were given the opportunity to sit for a mop-up examination.

    The board also announced that since the conduct of a mop-up examination was a stopgap measure, it would not be allowed to be a permanent feature of its calendar.

    It notes that any candidate presenting any challenge(s) would have to indicate such peculiarities at the point of registration for them to be given special consideration.

    Benjamin noted that the decision to consider the candidates was to ensure that no single innocent candidate is punished unjustly.

    The statement urged the 67 candidates to print their supplementary examination notification slips from Monday, 19th September, 2022, to know the centres where they would be sitting for the examination.

  • UTME: We don’t decide cut-off mark – JAMB

    UTME: We don’t decide cut-off mark – JAMB

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it does not decide on the uniform cut-off mark for the national Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.

    JAMB said cut-off marks are decided during a policy meeting constituted by all the Heads of the Institutions in attendance and chaired by the Hon. Minister of Education.

    Fabian Benjamin, the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of JAMB, disclosed that institutions deliberate upon the admission guidelines from individual institutions and their preferred minimum admission scores.

    Benjamin was reacting to a comment on the cut-off mark by a former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Nasir Fagge.

    He disclosed that JAMB conducts the examination and hands over the result to the institutions to decide the cut-off mark.

    Benjamin also disclosed that institutions rely on the Central Admissions Processing System in deciding cut-off marks.

    The statement reads partly: “There is nothing like a uniform minimum national Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) score for any of the tiers of tertiary institutions and neither does the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board decide any such requirement for any institution.

    “The Board does not and has never determined any uniform national UTME scores otherwise known as cut-off mark by the general public for any tertiary institution because, in actual sense, there are no uniform national UTME scores.

    “The lucid process of admission which the former President of the Academic Staff Union of University, Prof. Nasir Fagge, expounded and which was published in Premium Times is the exact process being followed in the conduct of admission exercise to tertiary institutions in the country.

    “This process has even been improved upon with the elimination of human interference through its full automation with the introduction of the Central Admissions Processing system(CAPS).”

  • JAMB releases 2022 UTME Results

    JAMB releases 2022 UTME Results

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released results of the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

    The examination body, which also outlined the process to check the results, made this known in a statement signed by its Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, on Saturday in Abuja.

    The statement made available to The PUNCH read: “To check the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, all a candidate needs to do is to simply send UTMERESULT to 55019 using the same phone number that he/she had used for registration and the result would be returned as a text message.

    “This is the only process of checking the 2022 UTME results for now as the Board has not uploaded it on its website for obvious reasons.

    “In addition, candidates are forewarned that they would, as usual, receive all kinds of messages from desperate fraudsters on how to check their results different from the aforementioned one. Hence, the Board urges all candidates to ignore all such messages on how to check their 2022 UTME results as they are all products of deceit aimed at misleading them.

    “The Board, in line with its desire to adhere to the ease of doing business protocol of the government, has emplaced this user-friendly and simplified process of checking UTME results.
    Furthermore, this simplified process would also serve to preclude the unconscionable exploitation of candidates by shylock business centres and cybercafés, which often take advantage of hapless candidates.

    “The 2022 UTME began on Friday, 6th May, 2022 and ended on Friday 13th May, 2022.”

  • 2022 UTME Begins Nationwide as 1.7m candidates sit for Examination

    2022 UTME Begins Nationwide as 1.7m candidates sit for Examination

    No fewer than 1.7 million candidates are set to take part in the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) nationwide scheduled to run from May 6 to May 16.

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) stated that the examination would be conducted for 1,761,338 candidates that successfully registered for the examination in 755 registered computer based centres.

    The Head Media JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said in Abuja that the board had put in place all measures to ensure smooth conduct of the examination.

    Fabian said that all candidates would be checked into the examination hall, using the Biometric Verification Machine (BVM), which is also a register of attendance in line with the Board’s policy.

    He further said that the ban on prohibited items was still in force, hence called on candidates to be careful not to run foul of the law as necessary sanctions would be meted out to violators of JAMB’s code of conduct.

    Benjamin identified banned items within the examination hall to include but not limited to flash drives, smart watches, calculators, recorders, mobile phones, spy reading glasses, jewellery, among others.

  • JAMB Uncovers one million Illegal Admissions

    JAMB Uncovers one million Illegal Admissions

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has discovered one million illegal admissions.

    The board, disclosing this in a statement in Abuja, said less than five percent of such students’ details had been uploaded on the Board portal by the institutions as required.

    JAMB said this caused the inability of students to obtain their admission letters which would qualify them to proceed on the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) or obtain exemption letters as the case may be.

    “This phenomenon is especially true of products of undisclosed illegal institutional admissions conducted outside the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) between 2017 and 2020.

    “The series of complaints emanated from the frustrations of these students who are expressing anger at the lack of formal recognition of their degrees by relevant authorities,” the board stated.

    It noted that Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, had out of compassion, approved a final condonement of these underhand admissions; to enable affected students obtain retroactive admission.

    The board, therefore, appealed to institutions to immediately upload appropriately the matriculation numbers, names, disciplines, year of graduation and other necessary details of the candidates for the Board to process the candidates’ condonement applications.

    “The board reiterates that it is incumbent on the institutions to correctly key in the details of the candidates as illustrated on the advisory issued to institutions, advertised in the dailies and on the Board’s website for the prompt processing of candidates retroactive admission letters for them to obtain necessary clearance for their hitherto underhand admissions,” the statement added.

  • JAMB insists it will not extend 2022 UTME/DE registration

    JAMB insists it will not extend 2022 UTME/DE registration

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says ongoing 2022 UTME/DE registration exercise scheduled to end on 26th March, will not be extended.

    The board disclosed this in a statement by its head of Public Relations, Dr Fabian Benjamin in Abuja on Thursday.

    Benjamin said the time scheduled for the registration exercise from Feb. 19 to March 26, was the only window allotted by relevant authorities to the board to conduct the exercise.

    He said that registration and examination dates were not fixed arbitrarily but through a consensus of opinions of the Federal Ministry of Education and examination agencies.

    He added that before the commencement of registration or examination for any given year, all public examinations bodies were invited to a roundtable where they were expected to agree on the timetable of activities for each examination agency and which must be strictly adhered to.

    He added that the announcement became necessary because of the drop in the number of candidates coming forward to register in spite of the capacity of the Board to register more daily.‘

    ’By this announcement, the board is urging prospective candidates who desire to register for the 2022/23 UTME/DE to come out to register as they have only two weeks to do so as no extension would be granted after the close of registration.

    ” The general public is to note that it is practically impossible for the board to even contemplate any extension of registration as sister examination bodies such as WAEC NECO and NABTEB, have their allotted time which the board cannot usurp,’’ he said.