Year: 2026

How to change date of birth on JAMB portal Follow the procedure below to carry out your Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s change of name or bio-data. The procedure on how to change your date of birth in the JAMB Portal Go to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s website. Click on the E-facility link on the green navbar. Under Post-Registration e-Facilities, click on Correction of Data. Click on Change of Course/Institution. If you do not have an account with JAMB (new users), you must create a JAMB account. If you already have an…

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JAMB commences change of course and institution for 2026 admission JAMB has commenced a Change of Course and Institution For 2026 admission. IDOMA VOICE reports that the JAMB change of course and institution for 2026 has commenced. This was confirmed by the official Twitter handle of JAMB. Candidates can process their changes at accredited centres or JAMB offices.  Please do note that candidates will be required to make a payment of N2,500 for the process. So we urge other candidates who wish to change their course/ institution to proceed to an accredited centre…

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How To Check Admission Status on JAMB CAPS Visit: https://www.jamb.gov.ng/EfacilityLogin and login with your registered email address and password to access your dashboard Click on ‘Check Admission Status, Click on ‘Access my CAPS’ Click on ‘Admission Status’ to see if you have been offered admission. If you have been admitted you will get a response with your Photo Image being displayed and a text Congratulating you on your admission offer , But if you are not offered any admission yet you will get a text response with “Sorry No Admission has been Given…

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JAMB drops its cut-off point The news is that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has dropped the idea of suggesting its own cut-off point which used to serve as the minimum below which no candidate could be admitted into a Nigerian tertiary institution. Recently re-appointed JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, announced that though tertiary institutions would still use JAMB’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination scores, they could independently determine the cut-off point acceptable to them. By the way, Oloyede is a model public servant that the Yoruba would describe as…

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JAMB announces cut-off point for 2026 admissions The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and relevant stakeholders have agreed on the minimum cut-off point for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. It was unanimously agreed at the 2026 Policy meeting that 140 will be the minimum cut-off point for admission into a university. 100 was voted for Polytechnics and Monotechnics, while 80 was voted for Colleges of Education. The cut-off point was the collective decision of all heads of tertiary institutions, private and public, taken at the 2026 Policy meeting…

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JAMB to probe CBT centres over extortion, threatens fine The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board is set to commence investigations into reported cases of extortions by some operators of Computer Based Test centres, The PUNCH reports. The CBT centres were accused of overcharging candidates during registration for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations and Direct Entry examinations. Our correspondent gathered that any CBT operator found guilty would be subjected to payment of N100,000 fine. The PUNCH reports that JAMB had announced a fixed rate for the 2026 UTME/DE registration and also provided…

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