EDUCATION

JAMB engages EFCC, ICPC, Police to monitor UTME exam centres

Daily Dispatch May 10, 2017

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said that operatives from the Nigeria Police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related offences Commission, ICPC, will monitor the examination centres in the Unified

EDUCATION

KTSG to provide free university education to people with disabilities

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2017

The Katsina State Government, says it will introduce a well funded free education scheme to people living with disabilities studying in tertiary institutions. “The government will not place the physically challenged people under the scholarship scheme but they will be placed under a well funded education programme,” an official told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]

EDUCATION

UTME: JAMB urges candidates to crosscheck data before midnight on Saturday

Daily Dispatch May 6, 2017

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged prospective candidates for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to crosscheck the data on their registration forms for the last time on May 6. The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the call in an interview with the News Agency if Nigeria […]

EDUCATION

UTME: JAMB warns against patronizing quacks

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Thursday urged Nigerians to shun quacks in registration for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations before the May 5 deadline. The Head JAMB Information and Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, gave the advice while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Bwari, FCT. Benjamin said the attitude of people in […]

EDUCATION

Dickson releases N200m for accreditation of state vasity programmes

Daily Dispatch May 1, 2017

The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has approved the immediate release of N200m to enable the state-owned Niger Delta University, Amassoma secure accreditation for some of its programmes. Represented by the Chief of Staff at the Government House in Yenagoa, Talford Ongolo, the Governor said, “The approval is made to upgrade the programmes at the […]

EDUCATION

JAMB registers 1. 5 million candidates for UTME

Daily Dispatch April 29, 2017

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board said it had so far registered 1.5 million candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination across the country. The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this in an interview with the newsmen on Saturday at side line of activities marking the pre-JAMB mock examinations. It will be […]