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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has drawn a firm line between his agency and Nigeria’s established examination councils, insisting that the board exists to place candidates in tertiary institutions rather than to test them, and cautioning that the national obsession with high Unified Tertiary Matriculation…
The Federal Government plans to end the separation of Junior Secondary Schools from Senior Secondary Schools to combat Nigeria’s primary education dropout rates. Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, announced the decision in Abuja while inaugurating a basic education monitoring committee. The current administrative split has failed to ensure a seamless transition for local learners….
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has restated its commitment to the 16-year minimum age requirement for admission into tertiary institutions, insisting that the policy rests on existing education laws and on evidence linking maturity to academic success. The board’s Public Communication Adviser, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the position known on Thursday during a…
More than 186,000 pupils who completed Nigeria’s nine-year Basic Education programme now have a clear path into senior secondary school, after the National Examinations Council released the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination results on Thursday and approved a date for candidates who fell short in core subjects. A total of 186,291 candidates registered for…
Nigeria’s colleges of education are set for their deepest overhaul in decades, as the National Commission for Colleges of Education prepares to roll out a competency-based, fully digitised curriculum aimed at producing a generation of technology-ready teachers and restoring the battered prestige of teacher training. The Executive Secretary of the NCCE, Dr Angela Ajala,…
A privately authored, five-year blueprint proposing N154 trillion to overhaul Nigeria’s education system has entered public debate at a moment when the country still carries the world’s heaviest burden of out-of-school children and continues to fund the sector well below international benchmarks. The plan, branded the Nigeria Education Transformation Initiative, was set out in…
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo, has urged authorities to deploy armed security personnel and fence all schools to protect students from kidnappers who deliberately target vulnerable institutions for maximum impact. Ogunbanjo, in an interview with Vanguard Learning, said criminals focus on schools…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has activated the portal for printing 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination original result slips, a step that formally clears the way for millions of candidates to begin chasing admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions for the 2026/2027 academic session. In a statement issued on Wednesday by JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian…
Nigeria’s tertiary admissions cycle has entered its final, crucial phase following a decisive administrative intervention. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday released the results of the 2026 mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. This final batch of scores clears the path for the board to begin ranking candidates and coordinating admissions for universities, polytechnics,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the results of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination mop-up exercise, clearing the way for the ranking of candidates and the start of the admission cycle for tertiary institutions nationwide. The Board’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed in a statement on Tuesday that candidates who…
