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December 15, 2022

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 IFMNEWS

Oloyede: Jamb Remitted N50bn To FG In Six Years

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has remitted N50billion to the Federal Government’s coffers in the last six years.

The JAMB Registrar Professor ISHAQ OLOYEDE made these known in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while delivering a special public lecture titled: “The imperatives of JAMB in tertiary education in Nigeria.

Professor OLOYEDE also said it expended 500 million naira as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in support of Nigerian universities to increase their capacity to give admission to applicants every year in the last five years.

May 27, 2022

May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 IFMNEWS

Jamb Withholds 69 UTME Results, Screens 27,105 Again

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board on Thursday said it would further screen 27,105 results of candidates who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The board also noted that it had withheld 69 results so far.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that the board’s Registrar, Prof Isiaq Oloyede, had said JAMB would screen results of candidates before releasing them.

In the statistics made available via the official Twitter handle of the board, @jAMBHQ, the board noted that 1,761,338 candidates registered for the 2022 UTME.

JAMB noted that only 1,671,203 results out of the 1,707,626 candidates who sat for the examination were released. 27,105 results, according to JAMB, would be subjected to further screening.

The board said 69 results were withheld while 1,783 candidates would be rescheduled to write the exam as a result of biometric challenges.

The PUNCH reports that the 2022 UTME examination, unlike previous years, was said to be a huge success.

Despite initial challenges, such as high diesel cost, JAMB collaborated with examination centres in the procurement of diesel. The board also noted that it would subsequently adopt the use of laptops for examinations.

March 18, 2022

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 IFMNEWS

JAMB Discovers 1 Million Illegal Admissions

Consequently, the Hon. Minister of Education, Mall. Adamu Adamu, out of compassion, approved a final batch of these underhand admissions

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has discovered one million illegal institutional admissions so far.

The board said this was responsible for the inability of some candidates to obtain their admission letters to qualify them to proceed on the 1 year mandatory National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, or obtain exemption letters.

On Thursday, March 17, 2022, JAMB’s Head, Media and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, in a statement, said these were illegal institutional admissions conducted outside the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) between 2017 and 2020.

The statement said: “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.

“Consequently, the Hon. Minister of Education, Mall. Adamu Adamu, out of compassion, approved a final batch of these underhand admissions.

“It should be recalled that based on that act of magnanimity, the Board had placed relevant advertisements in three national dailies (Blueprint, Guardian and Vanguard) of 24th November 2021. The same notice was featured on the Board’s website coupled with an easy-to-use Advisory issued to all institutions of higher learning to guide them on how these candidates could be redeemed.

“Based on available data, close to one million undisclosed illegal institutional admissions have been disclosed so far. What is, however, surprising is that, as of today, less than 5% of such students’ details had been uploaded on the Board portal by the institutions as required.

“It’s even more egregious to note that even among the few that had been uploaded by the schools on the Board portal many of the schools had not correctly keyed in their details.”

JAMB urged 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.

March 11, 2022

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 IFMNEWS

JAMB Says It Won’t Extend UTME/Direct Entry Registration

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it will not extend the registration deadline for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the Direct Entry (DE).

The board said this in a statement by its Head of Information and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin in Abuja.

The statement said: "The ongoing 2022 UTME/DE registration exercise scheduled to end on March 26, 2022 would not be extended. This is because the time scheduled for the registration exercise – from February 19, to March 26, 2022 – is the only window allotted by relevant authorities to the board to conduct the exercise.

"It should be noted that registration and examination dates are not fixed arbitrarily but through a consensus of opinions of the Federal Ministry of Education and examination agencies.

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