History has been made in Nigeria’s educational landscape as 15-year-old Afolabi Olumide Ayodeji shatters a long standing record in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), scoring an unprecedented 370, the highest mark recorded in over a decade. For more than 10 years, no candidate nationwide has achieved this extraordinary feat. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation […]
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Some candidates who sat the recently released Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) have rejected their results and called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to review them. The candidates, their families and concerned Nigerians have taken to social media to express concerns over the results. They insist that the released results do not […]
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Anambra State tops the list of six states with the highest malpractice cases in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Other states, according to the ranking released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), are Lagos Delta, Kano, Kaduna, and Rivers, in that order. The Board’s Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, who addressed a […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Saturday expressed worry over the high wave of institutional weaknesses, bureaucratic inefficiencies, and endemic grand corruption in the country, saying it has continued to undermine governance at all levels. It also lamented the lack of inclusiveness, transparence and accountability, as well as unaddressed existential conditions brought about […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has disclosed that a blind candidate hired a fellow blind man as an impersonator to sit the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on his behalf. According to the Registrar of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, the blind impersonator is an undergraduate. Oloyede who spoke at […]
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Ebule Oritsemeyiwa Precious, a final-year student at the Federal Government College, Warri, has scored 334 out of 400 in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), amid a national trend of low performance reported by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). JAMB recently disclosed that 75 percent of candidates who sat the 2025 UTME […]
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Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has been captured in a recent viral video returning to his roots as a teacher, engaging with students at an unnamed school. The video, which was shared on the Governor’s official Facebook page, shows him writing the word “Drugs” on the board and interacting with the pupils during a lesson. […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed why it held the results of some of the candidates who sat for its 2025 examination. At a press conference on Friday in Abuja, the Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, gave impersonation as a major reason for withholding the results. He unraveled a case where an individual […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Friday announced the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results. The board disclosed that it is withholding the results of 39,834 candidates over issues relating to examination irregularities. Recall that over 1.9 million applicants participated in the just-concluded exercise. It also disclosed that 80 […]
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Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has said that his administration remains committed to the firm resolve of providing every child in the state with equitable access to quality education and opportunities to thrive, regardless of background. His spokesman, Ebenezer Adeniyan said in a statement that he made this assertion on Thursday during the official flag-off […]
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