The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mop-up exercise and commenced the ranking of candidates for the admission process. In a statement issued on Tuesday, JAMB spokesperson Fabian Benjamin confirmed that candidates who participated in the mop-up examination can now access their results…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced new deadlines for the completion of the 2025/2026 admission exercise for tertiary institutions across Nigeria. The decision was reached during the 2026 JAMB Annual Policy Meeting on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions held in Abuja on Monday. According to resolutions adopted at the meeting, all public universities are expected to conclude their admission…
Lagos State University has retained its position as Nigeria’s University of First Choice, emerging for the second consecutive year as the most subscribed university in the country during the 2026 admission exercise conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. According to the latest UTME application statistics released by JAMB, LASU recorded an impressive 84,326 first-choice applications,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has retained 150 as the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2026/2027 academic session. The decision was announced on Monday during JAMB’s annual policy meeting held in Abuja. According to the examination body, the benchmark was approved following a vote by vice-chancellors and other stakeholders present at the…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that candidates applying for Education programmes and Agriculture-related non-engineering courses will no longer be required to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The announcement was made on Monday through the board’s official X handle during its ongoing 2026 admission policy meeting. According to JAMB,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)) has dismissed a viral result slip claiming a candidate scored 394 in the 2026 UTME, describing it as fake and misleading. In a statement, the Board said the document does not match its official result format and contains several irregularities, including an invalid…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of results for candidates who sat the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18. In a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the board confirmed that a total of 1,264,940 results from the two days are now…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has issued an apology to candidates over the delay in releasing the latest batch of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results, assuring that they will be made available later on Sunday. The board had earlier scheduled the release of results for candidates who sat the examination on Friday, April 17, 2026, for…
No fewer than 2.2 million candidates are set to sit for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which began nationwide on Thursday, April 16. The examination, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), will run until April 22 across accredited centres throughout the country. JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, urged examination officials to demonstrate professionalism and…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a revision to the reporting time for candidates sitting for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), particularly those in the first session of each day. In a statement posted on its official X handle on Monday, the board said candidates scheduled for the first session are now…
