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85, 000 students sat for the Nigerian Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) part-scholarship exams held in 30 centres across the country. Speaking to The Guardian at the Teslim Balogun centre, NIIT Regional head, West Africa, Ramnarayan Banerjee said that students’ performance in the exam would determine technical programmes they will be recommended. He said: “Our mission is to help students learn and earn, we are helping them create a career for their future. We are giving them new courses, state of the art curriculum, more sophisticated trainers and also help them get placements.” While noting that they have been in existence in Nigeria since 1999, Banerjee said that so far over 400, 000 students have been impacted with their various programmes and so they have given this opportunity for students to come and acquire knowledge, attitude and skill in the latest technology. “The programme has helped youths to shape their career and have a stable life. We have most of those w...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has begun to release the results of the ongoing 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The examination began on Friday and will end on March 17. The spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday. He said the board has scrutinized the centres which led to the release of the results. He urged the candidates to visit the board’s website and check their results. “The results will be released in batches, candidates are free to check,” he said. Similarly, a candidate Segun Abidoye, who wrote the examination on Saturday in Ilorin Kwara State, confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES. “The result was released in the midnight and I have obtained my scores”, Mr. Abidoye said. PREMIUM TIMES had reported the board stating the results would not be released immediately, in order for it to review the activities of the candidates and to minimise the number of cancellations....

Operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have paraded two suspects arrested at a centre in Abuja for alleged examination malpractice in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Commandant, NSCDC Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, Patrick Ukpen, paraded the suspects in Abuja on Tuesday He said the suspects were apprehended at Baptist Academy, Karu, Abuja. He said one of them who is also a candidate was arrested for allegedly going into the examination hall with her mobile phone. The commandant revealed that the suspect was able to conceal the mobile phone in her underwear and brought it out during the examination. “We have in our custody today two suspects that were involved in examination malpractice in the ongoing JAMB UTME. Their level of involvement are as follows: A lady whose name is Joy Apkabio, went into the exam hall with a telephone handset and this is against the rules covering the JAMB examination,” Mr Ukpen sa...

The JAMB official, Philomina Chieshe, who weeks back claimed that the board’s N36 million was swallowed by a strange snake has retracted her statement. Chieshe, who works as a clerk at the JAMB office in Markurdi, Benue state, had initially told JAMB auditors that a, “mysterious snake” swallowed the money gotten from the sale of JAMB scratch cards. But appearing before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC), she confessed that the money was collected by one Samuel Umoru, who’s her superior. A fact sheet released by the EFCC indicated that Chieshe was first quizzed on February 16th, 2017 and she made additional statements on April 7 and 13 2017, May 30, 2017 and June 28, 2017. In one of the statements she volunteered to the EFCC, Chieshe, who is a clerk in the Makurdi office of JAMB, revealed that the Coordinator usually asked her to withdraw proceeds of the sale of the Scratch Cards from her account in two new generation banks. She said, “ This money I withdrew, the ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Thursday released the results of the just-conducted Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the Newsmen on Thursday in Lagos. Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) fielding questions from newsmen According to him, candidates are to check their results on line by visiting www.jamb .org.ng with their registration numbers. Benjamin described the conduct of the examination nationwide as hitch-free. NAN reports that a total of 245,753 candidates registered for the mock examination which took place on Monday. Mock UTME is optional for UTME candidates. The main UTME is expected to hold from March 9 to March 17.

Ahead of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) exercise, scores of candidates, who registered for the exam, staged a protest in Lagos over what they described as the inconsiderate stance of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) by fixing the examination for March. The protesting candidates were led by the National President of the Association of Tutorial School Operators, Mr. Dotun Sodunke. Many of them were seen carrying placards, which bore various inscriptions such as; “Admissions are yet to close, why conducting another UTME now?”; “JAMB isn’t for revenue generation, stop milking our parents,” “2017 UTME held in May, why March in 2018?”, “2018 admissions not transparent”. Addressing the press during the protest, Sodunke warned that Nigerians might witness mass failure; if JAMB went on to hold the examination as scheduled. Arguing that the board’s decision to fix the date of the examination for March was not in the best interest of the candi...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board is currently investigating fresh cases of fraud totalling N83m uncovered in its state offices in Kano, Edo, Kogi, Gombe and Plateau. The herald gathered on Friday that while the board was investigating N31m misappropriated revenue in Edo and N20m in Kano, it was quizzing officials in Plateau and Gombe over N15m and N10m mismanaged in the states respectively. Also, it was learnt that the examination board was investigating the misappropriation of N7m in its office in Kogi State. The JAMB Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, who confirmed the figures on Friday, said the board would be diligent in its investigations and would not tolerate corrupt practices from any of its officials. “We will monitor with careful scrutiny how workers handled public funds. We are trying to block all leakages and loopholes,” he said. A reliable source told our correspondent that all the workers of the board found to have been involved in corrupt activities ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has warned prospective candidate for the 2018 UTME to be wary of fake past questions in Compact Discs, CDs, being circulated. JAMB said such is intended to dupe unsuspecting candidates. The spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, in a statement on Tuesday said the fake past questions in a CD Rom, titled “JAMB PRO CBT practice software for UTME,” was claimed to have emanated from JAMB in other to give credence to it. Mr. Benjamin said JAMB has not authorised anybody or group to produce or sell such compact discs on its behalf. Mr Benjamin said preliminary investigation shows that the past questions are fake and have no semblance to the board’s question papers both in context, content and form. “The Board as a responsible and responsive organisation would not be part of any ploy to defraud innocent candidate and has put machinery in motion for any of her outlets and service providers not to be used as channel of exploitation or dis...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it has begun registration for the 2018 unified tertiary matriculation examinations (UTME). The exam body said the registration would take place in over 700 computer based test (CBT) centres in 36 states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The organization’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made the announcement in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said the exercise would end in February next year. The statement reads, “We will also want to state clearly that the board does not post candidates to any examination town other than the one chosen by the candidate at the point of registration. “Candidates are, however, advised to register on time before the available spaces in their town of choice are exhausted. “The registration exercise started on Wednesday 6th December, 2017 and as at today so many candidates have text their names using their phone numbers to 55019 and got their profile registered. Aft...

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday announced that March 9 to 17, 2018, have been chosen for the conduct its 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). It also announced that sale of registration form will commence on November 22 and will run till January 22, 2018. The Board also announced that its mock exams will run from between January 22 and 27, 2018. JAMB encouraged candidates interested in mock exam to register on or before December 31, and also indicate interest during the registration so they could be allowed to sit for the mock exam. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, announced the programme in Abuja on Wednesday, at the meeting of heads of tertiary institutions and other stakeholders involved in the conduct of the UTME exam. He said that JAMB, after wide consultation with relevant stakeholders agreed to leave the cost of registration for Nigerian candidates at N5, 000, while the cost of registration for foreign candidates has been sla...