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THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that many ofthe candidates seeking admission to universities this year would not be admitted. A release made available to the Nigerian Tribune and signed by the Public Relations Officer, Mr Timothy Oyedeji, said because of the carrying capacity of universities, coupled with the rush for university education by candidates, who mostly did not like to have higher education in other institutions like polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education, “vast majority of candidates who applied to be admitted to universities will not be admitted.” The release further said the reason for this low admission rate would “not be because they have not scored high grades, nor for their failure in the post-United Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), but wholly because of quota constraints.” It said out of the 368 tertiary institutions in Nigeria, five, with the University of Lagos in the lead, were chosen by 406,389 candidat...

One of the heroes of the June 18, 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board is, arguably, Master Olawaseun Osonuga. Osonuga At a time when 842,941 out of the 1,493,000 candidates that sat for the examination were said to have scored below 200 marks, this 16-year-old boy ...

Federal University of Technology FUT, Minna - 190 *. Kwara Poly, - 180 *. University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT - 200/180 depending on course *. Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO - 180 UTME cutoff *. Kaduna State University, KASU - 180 UTME cutoff (first choice only) *. Lagos State Polytechnic, LASPOTECH - 180 cutoff *. University of Ibadan, UI - 200 (First choice only) *. Lagos State University, LASU - 200 *. Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, MOUAU - 180*. Imo State University IMSU,now Evan Enwerem University EEU - 180 *. University of Benin, UNIBEN - 200 *. Anambra State University,ANSU - No official figure probably 180 *. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, NAU/UNIZIK - 180 first choice only (no official link) *. Enugu State University of Science & Tech - 180 *. Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA - 200 *. Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU - 200 *. Adekunle Ajasin University - 200 (minimumUTME score) *. Tai Solarin Universit...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, yesterday, said there was no change indate for the conduct of its 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, examination slated for  tomorrow across the country and in six foreign countries. A total of 1, 493, 603 candidates who registered for the 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, willsit for the examination. Spokesperson of JAMB, Mr. Timothy Oyedeji, who stated this while reacting to reports that tomorrow’s examination coincided with the Nigerian Army recruitment examination, said the Board was not aware of any examination being conduct by the Army same day. Oyedeji said: “JAMB is not changing the date of its examination because of the Army’s recruitment examination; Army examination is not a regular or scheduled examination. “JAMB is not aware  of any Army examination and, therefore, we are going ahead to conduct the examinations for our candidates on Saturday, June 18, 2011.”According to him, JAMB as...