Tag Archives: UTME

Security operatives have been directed to work with Computer Based Test Centre owners to arrest meddlesome parents who come near their facilities during the 2024 UTME exercise.   JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede made the announcement during a briefing with CBT owners. He said the directive became necessary following the …

The Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company has withdrawn its scholarship awarded to Anambra state student, Ejikeme Mmesoma, after an investigation revealed that she forged her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) test scores.   Mmesoma, a 19-year-old student of the Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State, had claimed to …

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has reacted to findings by a panel formed by the Anambra State Government, confirming that Mmesoma Ejikeme manipulated her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, where she actually scored 249 as against 362 she was parading.  In an eight-page report released on Friday, July 7, …

The house of representatives on Wednesday, July 5, resolved to investigate the alleged forgery of the unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) result by Ejikeme Mmesoma.   The decision was taken following the adoption of a motion sponsored by Awaji-Inombek Abiante, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker from Rivers.   Abiante …

Ejikeme accused JAMB of manipulating his daughter’s UTME result. Mr Romanus Ejikeme, the father to Mmesoma Ejikeme, has said that her daughter had always come out as overall best student from her nursery school days till date.

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has ordered a probe into the controversy trailing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE) result of Ejikeme Mmeoma, a pupil from the state who sat for the last JAMB examination.   On Sunday, July 2, LIB reported that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board …

At the policy meeting, the registrar expressed concern over the crave for university education among candidates at the detriment of polytechnics and colleges of education. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB ) says it is contemplating a new policy to allow the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates write …

A 15-year-old student of St Greggory’s College, Agha Favour, got the highest score in Physics and Chemistry in Lagos state, with an aggregate score of 355 in the just concluded UTME.   Favour scored 94 in Mathematics, 98 in Physics, 98 in Chemistry and 65 in English, in the 2023 …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has rescheduled the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for candidates who could not sit for the exam on Tuesday, April 25, because of technical challenges.   JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin who made the announcement, noted that about …

In 2021, the poor performance recorded in the UTME was blamed on COVID-19. The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that out of the 1,761,338 candidates that wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, only 378,693 scored above 200.