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. The 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) is fixed for March 14 . Prof Is-haq Oloyede, registrar of JAMB, made the announcement in Abuja . The announcement was made a day after JAMB said it may deploy drones to monitor examinations in 2020 . Prospective candidates for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) are to participate in the exercise on March 14 as the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) begins preparation. . The date was announced by JAMB on Monday, December 23, saying the examination will hold between March 14 and April 4. . Prof Is-haq Oloyede, registrar of JAMB, made the announcement in Abuja when he met with commissioners for education from the 36 states. . According to Oloyede, registration for the UTME will start on January 13, and end on February 17. . JAMB reiterated its zero tolerance for all forms of examination malpractice and is leaving no stone unturned to curb the menace. . In its la

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially announced that the sales of JAMB registration form for 2019 UTME will commence on January 10th, 2019. The announcement was made by JAMB’s Registrar Professor Oloyede during a meeting with owners of JAMB Computer Based Test Centres at the University of Lagos. According to professor Oloyede, the sales of form will start January 10th and last for 6 weeks. Followed by the examination in March. He further disclosed that the board will not allow Cyber Cafe operators to register candidates because they are extorting candidates and overcharging them and also engaging in services that they do not have the capacity to do. The professor urged all prospective candidates to do their registration and access the board’s major services in any of its 718 accredited centres in the country. He assured that the general elections would not affect the sale of forms, adding that the board had adjusted its examination schedule ahead of

According to him, the call is to further encourage the candidates to do the needful ahead of the fast approaching period for the commencement of registration for the 2020 UTME any time soon. “We want to further appeal and remind all prospective candidates on the need to get themselves registered centrally under the NIN scheme. “They must consider this as compulsory if they intend to participate in the examination when the time comes. “There is no other means of acquiring our registration documents for the examination except through the NIN and that is why we are calling on them now to intensify efforts in getting registered to avoid “had I known’’. “No excuses will be entertained and that is the essence of this constant reminder so that nobody will be left out,’’ Benjamin told NAN. He also appealed to parents to give their children and wards free hands in choosing their future career rather than impose theirs (parents) wishes on them. According to him, often times children are under

The unions said the contending issues include payment of earned allowances, university staff schools matter, renegotiation of 2019 FGN/unions agreement among others.   Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) members Nigerian university workers have said that they would embark on a warning strike from Monday until their demand to the government is met. The planned one-week strike, which will last from August 19 to 23, is coming four months after the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities suspended their two-month strike. In a letter on Friday, the non-academic unions comprising the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, said, “At the expiration of the 14-day ultimatum on August 18, 2019 without a positive response from the Federal Government of Nigeria, members shall proceed on a five-day warning strike in all branches from Monday 19 to Friday 23 August 2019.” The unions said the contending issues include paym

The portal for OAU POST-UTME registration has been updated with the information below. CHANGE OF COURSE EFFECTED ON THE ADMISSION PORTAL All candidates that applied for change of course on the JAMB site can check the changes on the Admission portal and proceed to register for the Post UTME if they have not done so yet. The deadline for post utme registration has been extended. Those with held or awaiting result have the grace to upload their olevel before then. The new deadline for the POST-UTME registration is now 26th August, 2019.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB have called on universities and other tertiary institutions in the country to regularly download and update their record at any given time in other to remain up to speed with the list of applicants seeking admission into their institution as forwarded to them by the board. The Zonal Coordinator JAMB in Katsina state, Mr Mohammed kankia told the Nation exclusively during an interview in his office in Katsina, that constant refreshing of the portals will ensure that no candidate seeking admission is denied the opportunity due to negligence occasioned by the attitude of such an institution He said ’’several factors may necessitate change of institution by an applicant, including: choice of course of study, inability to meet up with the requisite admission cut off mark, pressure from parents particularly due to change of locations, etc’’ ‘’we have made the process open and more simplified for them, and we have informed them firs