The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has urged the public to be wary of any candidate parading printed result slip of the just concluded 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, gave the warning on Wednesday in Abuja, saying that the results are not on any paper format as being circulated on social media by some individuals. “The Board, once again, wishes to state clearly that the only way to check the 2024 UTME result is to send UTMERESULT to 55019 or 66019 using the same phone used by the candidate in registering for the U ..read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has reacted to some complaints by candidates facing difficulties checking their 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results. Recall that JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, on Monday announced the release of the UTME results. DAILY POST also revealed the step-by-step approach candidates can take to check their results through the use of SMS and a portal. However, some candidates said on Tuesday that their efforts to check the results had not been successful. Some candidates facing the challenge took to their X handles to e ..read more

The Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) is set to commence the construction of a state-of-the-art hostel block for the Federal University of Technology, Minna. The project, which is being executed under the philanthropic initiative of the Chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu (CFR, CON), will provide contemporary hostel accommodation for undergraduate students within the university’s main campus. The proposed hostel facility will accommodate 108 students with other auxiliary facilities such as laundries, kitchenettes, common rooms, and the warden’s room. Speaking at the ground ..read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has confirmed that 1,402,490 candidates out of 1,842,464 failed to score 200 out of 400 marks, in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board released the results on Monday. And it showed that the number who failed to score half of the possible marks was 78% of the candidates. Giving a breakdown of the results, JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede noted that, “8,401 candidates scored 300 and above; 77,070 scored 250 and above; 439,974 scored 200 and above while 1,402,490 scored below 200.” Oloyede also said the resu ..read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Monday released the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME results. The Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made the announcement in a press conference in Abjua. He said a total of 1,989,668 candidates registered for the examination, representing 24.7 per cent higher than the figure for the year 2023. The Registrar noted that of the 1,989,668 registered, 1,904,189 were present and verified, 2,899 were present but unverified and 80,810 were absent. Below is how to check the results using SMS or JAMB official portal. How t ..read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, is set to release the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, is scheduled to address the media in Abuja on Monday. During the press briefing, Oloyede will give updates on the release of the results. This was contained in a notice circulated to journalists and made available by the Board’s Head of Public Relations, Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday. There are indications that the 2024 UTME results that would be released on Monday, are for candidates who wrote the exams in the first few da ..read more

The Bauchi State government has cautioned that it will cease payment of external exam fees for Senior Secondary Three, SS3 students found skipping classes. Commissioner for Education Jamila Dahiru gave the warning in Bauchi during her school resumption inspection and monitoring visits to some schools on Wednesday. DAILY POST recalls that Governor Bala Mohammed earlier allocated N396.9 million for the 2023/2024 external exams of 14,170 students in public schools. The external examinations paid for included the West African Examination Council, WAEC, the National Examination Council l, NECO, Na ..read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Wednesday, said the female candidate who was asked to remove her hijab before sitting for her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in Lagos did not lose a minute out of her scheduled time. DAILY POST recalls that the candidate, who sat for the examination at the Bafuto Institute, Ile-Iwe Bus Stop, Ejigbo, Lagos, was said to have been asked by JAMB officials to remove her headcover during the accreditation process before being allowed into the hall. There are reports that the lady was not allowed into the examination hall until 30 mi ..read more

The First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has described her support for the education of the girl child as a response to the yawning gap in girls’ education in Nigeria. She made this known while launching the Alternative High Schools for Girls on Tuesday in Osogbo, the Osun State Capital. The First Lady noted: “This ceremony marks the beginning of an opportunity for a new chapter and a chance for a promising future for exceptional young girls and women who evolve through the door of this school. I introduced the idea of the establishment of an alternative high school for girls, a vision that was accept ..read more

A lecturer of University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, has been caught pants down inside his office with a female student. The man whose name is yet to be ascertained by DAILY POST is said to be a lecturer in the School of General Studies of the institution. The victim is alleged to be someone’s wife. A voice in the viral video said: “We have been following this case from day one. As you can see we have all the chats, voice notes, videos and everything.” Commenting under the video, a student identified the man in the video, claiming he taught him Peace and Conflict, a course under General Studies ..read more