Tag: UTME
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UTME: IDP students record exceptional performance
Ohogua Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) students who wrote the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) record an impressive performance according to results released by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Solomon Folunsho, the general overseer of International Christian Mission Centre and operator of the camp located in Benin City, Edo State, made this known…
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JAMB releases 1.5m UTME results, withholds 112,331 others
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released a total of 1,502,978 results in the just conducted Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB’s Head of Information, Fabian Benjamin, said the results were released after viewing all CCTV footage during the 2018 UTME. He also noted that the results were released having considered reports from the…
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2018 UTME: No rescheduling of exams for candidates – Oloyede
The Registrar, Joint Admissions, and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, on Thursday said that there will be no rescheduling of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME) for any student like it did last year. He said that reports have also indicated that some parents had allegedly negotiated with some private coordinators who assured them…
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UTME 2018: Methodist Reverend arrested for extortion
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday arrested a Methodist Reverend, Mr Chuka Egwuonwu, for allegedly extorting N126,000 from candidates to aid malpractices. Mr Patrick Ukpan, Commandant, NSCDC, FCT Command, while presenting the suspect to newsmen in Abuja, said the suspect who owns a CBT centre called Diamond ICT Centre was arrested…
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UTME 2018: JAMB directs candidates to immediately check results online
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed candidates who have taken the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) to visit the board’s website for their results. The Head of Media of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, gave the directive at a news conference on Tuesday in Bwari, Abuja. Benjamin said that the results…
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UTME 2018: Identical twins arrested for exam malpractice
Two identical twins have been arrested for alleged examination malpractice in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), at the University of Maiduguri centre, Borno. This came just as Joint Admissions and matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that between Friday and yesterday about 450,000 candidates out of about 1.6 million that registered for 2018 Unified…
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UTME 2018: Candidates laud JAMB as some fidget over use of computers
Some candidates, who sat for the first session of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), on Saturday commended JAMB as few panicked due to their unfamiliarity with the use of computers. Mr Abayomi Otubela, the proprietor of Lagooz Schools Agege, Lagos, whose school serves as one of the UTME centres, announced this to the parents…
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2018 UTME: JAMB to conduct Mock test Feb 26
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday said the much anticipated conduct of the 2018 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would now hold on Feb. 26. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. According to him,…
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1.6m forms sold for 2018 UTME – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says about 1.6 million registration documents for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have so far been sold with two days to end the exercise. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
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UTME: Police arrest two over alleged illegal registration in Lagos
The Police have arrested two men in Lagos for allegedly engaging in an illegal registration of candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Lagos State Coordinator of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Mr Sunday Aladegbaye, confirmed the arrest on Sunday in Lagos. “Two men and co-owners of a computer-based test centre,…