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A minimum of 390 visually impaired candidates participated in the ongoing 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations. The UTME for the visually impaired which started on Tuesday, April 16, was concluded on Wednesday, April 17. The exercise took place in four centres across the country, located in Abuja, Enugu, Kano, and Lagos. Prof. Peter Okebukola, the …

The Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo is now to be known as Imo State University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Umuagwo, following an upgrade by the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha.  The governor said that the laws establishing the institutions were passed by the state House of Assembly. He also inaugurated an implementation committee headed by Prof. Chima Iwuchukwu, to oversee the …

As Game of Thrones (GoT) returns for its final season, a group of German students are trying to predict who lives and dies using a specially created algorithm. It feels like we’ve been speculating on who will survive the end of Game of Thrones since the dawn of time but with the show now settling …

A total of fifty-five female students pursuing degree programmes in the Faculty of Communication of the Bayero University, Kano have received scholarship grant of fifty thousand naira each under the MacArthur Scholarship Grant secured by the Faculty. In a letter signed by Professor Umaru A. Pate, the Chairman of the Faculty MacArthur Scholarship Grant Implementation …

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Akii Ibhadode, FAS, on behalf of Council, Senate, Congregation and Convocation, the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), cordially invites all graduands of 2016/2017 & 2017/2018 academic sessions and the general public to its Second Convocation Ceremony for the Award of First Degrees, PGD, Certificates and Prizes, conferment of Honorary Degrees …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that it has uncovered and arrested over 50 ‘Professional Examination Writers’ who specialized in writing the examination for candidates for a fee. The board stated in its weekly bulletin that the arrest of over 50 professional examination writers was as a result of the various intelligence …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced the arrest of a third-year medical student and another undergraduate for attempted impersonation during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination The board’s Head of Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Friday in Lagos, stating that desperate individuals still attempted to …

As many JAMB candidates continue to show displeasure over their poor UTME results, some fraudsters have taken advantage of this to defraud the gullible ones in the name of “JAMB Result Upgrading.”  Their advertisements and posts online will always look something like the examples we have below which we extracted from our comments spam folder: …

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given voice concerning allegations that some hijab-wearing students were denied entry into the examination hall by its invigilators and supervisors. Reacting to the allegations, JAMB in a statement on its official Twitter page affirmed that its rule does not prevent female candidates from wearing hijab or other …

The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has warned newly admitted students of the 2018/2019 academic session against cultism and other social vices. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Simeon Bamire, gave this warning while flagging-off the orientation programme organized by the Division of Students’ Affairs for the newly admitted students. …

Jide Jisus, a man who claimed to be a professor, was arrested on Thursday for alleged examination malpractice during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The spokesperson of JAMB, Mr. Fabian Benjamin, in a statement yesterday, disclosed that the ‘professor’ was apprehended by the monitoring team of the registrar of JAMB in an examination …

As the Unified Tertiary Examination (UTME) of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) begins today, we wish all Jambites and most especially Ulearngo loyal visitors success in your exams. In our bid to help all Jambites, this article we show you the do’s and dont’s as you prepare for your UTME exams. Without wasting …