JAMB News

If we are not lieing to ourselves against all the evidence at sight, the 2017 JAMB and all the news training JAMB in the registration process is the most stressful, frustrating, dramatic and setback for JAMB since it was set as the standard board for the moderation of admission into our universities in Nigeria.

Before we bring up todays’s news about JAMB, do you know it is not only through JAMB, O’level leavers can use to gain admission into Nigerian universities? Major universities in Nigeria that you or your wards might interest in have other most priories way of gaining admission into the university. We are talking about universities like Unilag, Unijos, ABU, Unilorin, Uniben, Unizik all have other alternatives you can use to gain admission without for once writing JAMB.

The alternative we are talking about today is IJMB, which stands for Interim Joint Matriculation Board, is a programme being moderated by Ahamdu Bello, University. Read all about IJMB and how to register for the programme. You can also see the IJMB registration closing date for this ongoing session The IJMB is a 9 months programme that takes successful students into 200 level via Direct Entry form that is obtainable in JAMB website/bank/office. For enquiries about IJMB form, interested candidates can call IJMB Helplines on 08105087367 or 0811357171

Today, parent and candidates alike can know that is not only the JAMB way students can gain admission into the university. Especially since JAMB do not accept awaiting result anymore. The JAMB alternatives like IJMB accepts awaiting result

By Owei Lakemfa

NEVER in the history of the country has a major examination body set a date for national examinations and have been incapable of even producing the examination questions, not to talk of the examinations holding.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, headed by a professor not only failed to hold the Mock Examinations on April 8 in any part of the country, but also failed in all the courses leading to carrying out its sole assignment of conducting admissions into our tertiary institutions. When I was in my final year in primary school preparing for the First School leaving certificate and admission into post-primary school, the teachers drummed it into our ears the trite that, “Pupils do not plan to fail, but fail to plan”

In other words, that adequate preparation is vital for success. This primary lesson, JAMB, under the new management of Professor Is-haq Olarewaju Oloyede, is unable to imbibe. As it set out to carry out its basic duties to our youths and the country, it failed to think through basic issues and steps.

Mixing these with marked arrogance and inability to learn from experience, has been quite costly for the country. The Oloyede team came in eight months ago and went about trying to change things without any deep thought nor care about the consequences. Our people say when a hen is placed in new environment, it first puts down a foot, surveys his new place, before letting the second down; not for the Oloyede team that rushed into places where angels refuse to tread. Oloyede, before the mess he has created became so manifest, had boasted at a public function in the University of Ilorin:

“We are in a period of change, and what that means is that everything we have been doing must be reviewed. Whatever we have been doing right will have to be reinforced while what we were doing wrong will be changed.” First, he changed the service providers of JAMB who had been largely effective over the years, replacing them with new ones who could not even transmit questions to examination centres.

When Oloyede said “The postponement of the UTME mock examination was due to failure from our technical partner”, he did not tell the country that this was largely due to the irrational decisions of his administration. Secondly, while in the past, prospective students could walk into a bank and purchase a JAMB form, a new procedure was introduced in which the candidate first creates a profile in the JAMB Site, then goes to the bank to pay after which he obtains an e-pin.

As it turned out, obtaining an e-pin was very difficult for many candidates. In a country with poor and low connectivity, it was not unlikely that there could be a congestion in the system. When this happened, and prospective candidates – some who had spent four days trying to register – cried out and begged for an extension of the March 20 –April 19 registration period, Oloyede arrogantly turned down the plea.

This brings me to my third point; that while JAMB in the past, had a three-month registration belt, Oloyode reduced the registration to one month! Common sense should have dictated that with the more cumbersome registration process and an increase in projected number of candidates from 1.4 million two years ago, to two million this year, the registration belt should not have been so tightened.

There are also other registration requirements which should have been reviewed. For instance, prospective candidates are required to have personal phones and personal electronic mail address. If as parents, we discourage our children in boarding houses or in post-primary schools from using or owning phones, why should JAMB make them compulsory?

The same for e-mail since this can open them to sites which may not be good for the underage. Given the cumbersome and stressful registration process, the House of Representatives also made a case for an extension which JAMB ignored until it was faced with the backlash of its failure to hold the Mock Examinations.

In all these, I wonder whether JAMB took into consideration the rural areas which lack connectivity and where electricity supply maybe a rarity. Are prospective JAMB candidates from such rural areas not already subjected to an obstacle course far more challenging than their counterparts in the urban centres? An incident made me reflect on the ability of Oloyede to read a situation.

In the midst of the confusion, stress, frustration and anger of the prospective candidates – with many pushing themselves in barely organised queues – he choose to carry out an ‘inspection’ of the mess his administration had created. I wonder what would have happened if the frustrated youths had decided to confront him. I had the same feeling when as Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, rather than solve the academics-administration crises created by his predecessor, he dived headlong into it.

Consequently, he spent his tenure fighting battles he had not initiated. I had cause two years ago to criticise JAMB under Professor Jibu Ojerinde, but it was not for marked incompetence. Rather, it was due to moves to railroad candidates into private universities.

I had also argued that the country has no need for a central admission body. I still hold the view that tertiary institutions whether owned by the Federal or State governments or privately- owned, should conduct their own admission. There is a sense Oloyede should not be blamed; his predecessor, Ojerinde is a professor of Tests and Measurement and Education Management coupled with many years experience; so in JAMB, he seemed a round peg in a round role.

I have gone through the profile of Oloyede; he attended an Arabic Training Centre before proceeding to the University of Ibadan where he did a certificate course in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He then went to the University of Ilorin in 1978 where he has virtually spent all his life.

There he got his first degree in Arabic Studies and doctorate in Islamic Studies rising to be the institution’s Vice Chancellor. To make Oloyede a round peg in JAMB, his square sides would need to be trimmed or chiseled; he also has to help himself by being reflective and more engaging than being haughty. Those responsible for appointing Oloyede the JAMB Registrar, including Education Minister, Malam Adamu Adamu, also have a duty to ensure he performs, because his failure may have disastrous consequences for our youths and country.

To register for IJMB and to find more information about IJMB 2017/2018 registration, follow the instruction below

IJMB Registration Procedure

1,The first step is to print the form out at https://ijmb.com.ng/ijmb-registration/ to register for IJMB.

2. Then do pay the form fee which is currently #8,500, to the following account number

Account Name: IJMB ALEVEL REGISTRATION

Account No: 0163836217

Bank : Guaranty Trust Bank (Gtbank)

3 After paying, do fill the printed form with CAPITAL LETTERS

4. Attach your passport to the designated area on the form

5. Go back to the nearest cyber cafe to you and scan the form you have already filled, and also scan the teller copy you were issued at the bank

6. Send all the scanned data to [email protected]

7. Within 2 to 4 hours, a reply will be sent to you via the email you used to send the scanned data to us, the email will include other few details you need to know as an IJMB students

8. Syllabus will be sent to register students with their full IJMB registration details, IJMB applicants should endeavour to download on their emails and start studying the IJMB syllabus

The total fees you will be paying through your IJMB programme with us in any of our centres is #168,000 till you write your final examination which is alway due by February every year. You can see the break down of the fees at IJMB programme fee

Finally, we should call you to ask you if you have any question or clarification you want us to answer or make

Have a question about IJMB registration? Please go through many questions we have answered HERE
List of University accepting IJMB result at list of Nigerian universities accepting IJMB

What are our current school fees and hostel fee? Please click IJMB SCHOOL FEES

Please click here to register ijmb online and also make the payment with your atm card

We advise all students to read our IJMB FAQ page, please do read it thoroughly.

UPDATE:

CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR IJMB FORM

What you should know about IJMB; click Here

All universities accepting IJMB see List of universities accepting IJMB result

Which Account number to pay the #8,500 IJMB form to? Click IJMB account number for registration

What is IJMB programme? Find read what is IJMB

When will the lecture start? Click here for IJMB resumption date