Education

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commenced the rescheduling of candidates affected by the technical glitches during the conduct of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

It has been established that a technical glitch affected 157 centres out of the 887 centres in the 2025 UTME. This was basically responsible for the general low performance of the candidates scheduled to sit the examination in those centres. As such, all the affected candidates will be contacted to reprint their examination slips towards…

I am pleased to inform you that the Director General has approved the Passing-Out of the 2024 Batch ‘B’ Stream I Corps members for Thursday, 5th June, 2025.

The National Universities Commission has granted Benue State a provisional licence to establish a new state university. The Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Abdullahi Ribadu, presented the licence to the State’s Deputy Governor, Samuel Ode, who represented Governor Hyacinth Alia at the occasion on Wednesday. Ribadu said the institution, Benue State University of Agriculture, Science…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) branch, has threatened to sue the Joint Matriculation Board (JAMB) over massive failure recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME). The Chairman of ASUU-UNN, Comrade Óyibo Eze, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen in Nsukka on Wednesday. Oyibo said the massive…

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Wednesday, broke into tears as he apologised for the errors in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. “I apologise for the trauma caused the candidates,” Oloyede said tearfully during a press conference in Abuja. Recall that Oloyede at the start of the…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will reschedule 379,997 candidates who were affected by glitches during the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The affected candidates will receive text messages from tomorrow, Thursday, May 15, 2025, for a resit examination. The board’s registrar has issued an apology to the affected candidates and…

The 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South East and Lagos will be rescheduled for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination. The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq , made this known in an ongoing press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. Oloyede, who took responsibility for what he described as a “sabotage” of the…

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board on Wednesday finally admitted to errors that affected the performance of students during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede admitted to this during an ongoing press briefing in Abuja. “What should have been a moment of joy has changed due to…

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board on Wednesday finally admitted to errors which affected the performance of students during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede admitted to this during an ongoing press briefing in Abuja. “What should have been a moment of joy has changed due to…