Category: Education

Koint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Wednesday, broke down in tears as he apologised for the errors in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. “I apologise for the trauma caused to the candidates,” Oloyede said tearfully during a press conference in Abuja. Oloyede, at the start of the press briefing, […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has admitted technical errors in the UTME results it released last Friday. Following is the full text of  the JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede’s explanation on Wednesday: ‘Man proposes, God disposes’: Press Conference Address on the Complaints about the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) Results by the […]

Following the death of a 19-year-old girl in Lagos who reportedly took her life after receiving her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results on Monday, mental health professionals are calling for a more comprehensive approach to supporting students under examination pressure. Identified by neighbours as Timilehin, the departed teenager was described as quiet, humble, and full […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced a review of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results following a wave of “unusual complaints” from candidates after the results were released on Friday. It officially released the results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination to the public last Friday. Earlier before the release, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]