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September 12, 2017

[The Activism Blog] Media Rights Agenda names NTA latest recipient of FOI Hall of Shame award

A Non-Governmental Organisation focused on freedom of expression, access to information and media development/persecutions, Media Rights Agenda has named the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) its latest recipient of the Freedom of Information Hall of Shame award. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday, September 11, 2017 by Mosunmola Olanrewaju, MRA’s programme manager in charge... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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September 5, 2017

Opinion: Nigeria’s legendary lip-service to quality education

by Jide Ojo Nigeria’s education system is in dire need of overhaul. Things are not just right in that sector. Unless something urgent is done to arrest and redress the rot in the system, the country’s future seems bleak. The leaders of tomorrow being prepared by today’s education authorities cannot sadly deliver global competitiveness. From... Read More
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September 3, 2017

Private Universities say they have no hand in the 120 cut-off mark for admission

According to a report by Guardian, Nigerian private universities in the country have refuted claims that they were the ‘brains’ behind the backward reduction of the cut-off mark for admission into universities, polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education for the next academic session. Data released last week by spokesperson of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)... Read More
The News Blog
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August 28, 2017

Governor Fayose, Mayweather/McGregor, JAMB | Here are last week’s winners and losers

From the world of sports to entertainment to politics and to Nigeria’s villa of rodents, here are last week’s winners and losers: WINNERS Floyd Mayweather The 40-year-old champion walked out of retirement to take on newcomer, Conor McGregor at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night. At the 65th second of the 10th... Read More
Featured, Thinking Through
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August 28, 2017

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

These are the top five stories you should monitor today. 1. Reduced cut-off marks will stop Nigerians from going to school abroad – JAMB The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it reduced admission cut-off marks to prevent Nigerians from going to school abroad. 2. Those asking for Diezani’s repatriation have ulterior motives – Sagay... Read More
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August 28, 2017

Reduced cut-off marks will stop Nigerians from going to school abroad – JAMB

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it reduced admission cut-off marks to prevent Nigerians from going to school abroad. The examination body said  it is trying to encourage Nigerians against enrolling in “mushroom universities” and “glorified secondary schools” in Ghana, Uganda and Gambia. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB spokesperson in a statement said, “Today, it is... Read More
The News Blog
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August 26, 2017

We will call for the scrapping of JAMB if low cut-off mark is not reversed – NANS

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said it would call for the scrapping of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) over its new admission cut-off marks. NANS National Public Relations Officer, Bestman Okereafor made this known in a statement in Enugu on Saturday. The union said it would take the decision if... Read More
The News Blog
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August 26, 2017

120 cut-off mark; 360 bank staff sacked every week | The 5 numbers that mattered this week

120 – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced that minimum cut-off marks for the university degree for the 2017 academic year be put at 120 while polytechnics and Monotechnics at 100. 2,736 – Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola said on Thursday that the Federal Government is building this number of housing units... Read More
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August 25, 2017

ASUP rejects new JAMB cut-off mark, says “value will be eroded”

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) through the President, Usman Dutse on Friday in Lagos says the new cut-off mark for admission into universities, polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education will reduce the standard of education in Nigeria. Dutse’s argument: The new cut-off mark will increase corruption in the admission process. The new cut-off mark... Read More
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August 25, 2017

JAMB announces date for commencement of 2017/18 admission

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) through the Head, Information and Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin on Friday in Abuja, says the admission processes for 2017/2018 will commence on September 15 and close on January 31, 2018, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Benjamin said that the direct entry applications for admission would close... Read More
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August 25, 2017

Vice Chancellors reject JAMB’s new admission cut-off marks

Some Vice Chancellors have rejected the decision of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to put the minimum admission cut-off mark at 120 for Universities. The examination body had announced that cut-off mark for Universities was 120, 100 for polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education. Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, in a statement... Read More
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JAMB
August 24, 2017

ASUU lambasts Jamb over new cut-off marks for admission in tertiary institutions

Mixed reactions have followed the reduction of the cut-off mark for 2017/2018 admission into tertiary institutions. Although, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said the decision was made by stakeholders in the education system; in reaction, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Thursday, scolded the Federal Government for making such a “sad... Read More
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August 24, 2017

JAMB: Why ruin schooling? University education should not be compulsory

by Alexander O. Onukwue The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) announced this week a new guideline for cut-off marks for admission of students into tertiary schools in Nigeria. The lowering of the benchmarks for universities (now 120), polytechnics (110) and innovative enterprise institutions (100) has raised lots of dust in the media about what... Read More
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August 24, 2017

We didn’t fix admission cut-off marks, stakeholders did – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it did not fix the tertiary institutions minimum admission cut-off marks, contrary to reports. JAMB had announced that minimum cut-off marks for the university degree for the 2017 academic year be put at 120, Polytechnics and Monotechnics at 100. The body said the decision was a... Read More
The News Blog
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August 23, 2017

The Thread: “Western Education is haram” “Bobrisky will be the norm” | TwitterNG rails against JAMB’s new cut-off mark

Nigerians are crying bloody murder against JAMB’s recent decision to reduce its cut-off mark to 120. People of God, 120. Who’s half-witted idea was this? Once upon a time, Nigeria used to be the place students all over the world flocked to for studies. Now our students are headed out of our shores in droves... Read More
Opinion
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August 22, 2017

UTME 2017: JAMB reveals number of candidates that scored over 200

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Tuesday said 569,395 of the 1.7 million candidates that wrote UTME in 2017 scored over 200 marks. The Registrar, JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede disclosed this at the policy meeting of stakeholders in both public and private tertiary institutions. He said 23.8 per cent of the total number of the... Read More
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JAMB
July 14, 2017

JAMB reportedly releases results of supplementary exams

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has reportedly released the results of the 2017 university admission supplementary examination that held on July 1. At least 85,000 candidates were given the opportunity to rewrite the supplementary exam, due to problems of registration. More than 1.7 million candidates registered for the first 2017 UTME in 633... Read More
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July 2, 2017

2017 UTME Supplementary exam: “We’ll not reschedule the exam for latecomers” – Oloyede

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said on Saturday that there would be no rescheduling of examination for candidates who reported late for the supplementary examination. TheCable reports that the JAMB registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, said this while reacting to complaints by candidates sitting for the mop-up examination at the board’s computer-based centre (CBT) in Bwari,... Read More
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June 21, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog]: Nigerian parents’ fear of sex education has pushed them to launch this ignorant petition

So last week, the Parents Teacher Association of The Crescent School in Victoria Island Lagos, launched a petition to the Federal Ministry of Information to “investigate the process that led to the adoption of some ‘immoral textbooks’ by the National Examination Council and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.”  The phrasing is so ridiculous, I had... Read More
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JAMB
June 21, 2017

JAMB holds supplementary UTME for 85,000 candidates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed Saturday, July 1 for supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for 85,000 candidates. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, announced the date in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja. He said the examination was for those who registered late and those with related... Read More
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Election
June 20, 2017

Reuben Abati: JAMB 2017 – Matters arising

by Reuben Abati I attended a meeting recently at the headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Bwari, Abuja: the post-2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination review meeting chaired by the JAMB registrar, Professor Ish-aq Oloyede. Participants included Professor Oloyede and his technical team, field officers and other staff, all the Chief External Examiners... Read More
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