Korede Abdullah in Lagos The Lagos State Government has officially commenced the 2025 entrance examination process for admission into its Model Colleges and Upgraded Junior Secondary Schools. According to a statement released on Tuesday by the Director of the Lagos State Examinations Board, Mr. Orunsolu Adebayo, the Computer-Based Test (CBT) for eligible Primary Six pupils…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has confirmed that more than 70% of candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination scored below 200 marks. According to official data released with the resit results, 1,365,479 candidates, representing 70.7% of those who participated, fell below the 200 mark. Meanwhile, only 29.3%, 565,988 candidates…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) resit conducted for candidates in affected centres, indicating 21,082 were absent out of 336,845 candidates scheduled. According to a statement released by it’s spokesperson Fabian Benjamin on Friday, JAMB disclosed that, the Board noted that the resit…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano Tears of relief and joy flowed in Kano as Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf fully settled the outstanding tuition and accommodation fees of 84 Kano students abandoned in Northern Cyprus. These students, initially sent abroad under former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s foreign scholarship scheme, were left stranded after the succeeding Ganduje administration…
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has admitted that the technical glitches which disrupted the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) almost made him consider resigning. Oloyede made this known on Wednesday during a stakeholders’ meeting with Chief External Examiners, state technical advisers, and other education officials in…
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has expressed concern over the low number of student loan applications from Rivers State University. Speaking during a strategic engagement and sensitisation campaign on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, NELFUND’s Managing Director, Mr. Akintunde Sawyerr, represented by Dr. Zino Ugboma, Director of Administration, revealed that while the University of Port…
The South East Caucus in the House of Representatives has called on the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, to resign and allow a thorough investigation into the massive failure in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The call was contained in a statement signed by the Caucus Leader, Rep.Igariwey…
About 13,700 candidates participated in the May edition of the Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) conducted nationwide by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) on Saturday. Acting Registrar of TRCN, Stella Maria Nwokeocha, disclosed this while monitoring the exercise at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) CBT Centre in Wuse II, Abuja. “We…
The death by suicide of a 19-year-old Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Opesusi Faith Timilehin, in Lagos State brings to number three Nigerian students who have been dispatched to their early graves for ‘failing’ UTME in seven years. This was revealed by Africa Health Report (AHR) investigation. AHR Fact Check students taking their lives…
…2025 Records 3rd-Worst Performance Since 2016 Hussaini Kafi in Kano The shocking mass failure in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results has triggered nationwide protests ever witnessed since the inception of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the body statutorily authorised to conduct university admission for candidates. Africa Health Report AHR, reports that…
