BREAKING: JAMB exempts Education, Agriculture candidates from UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Monday announced that candidates seeking admittance into Education programmes and Agriculture-related non-engineering courses volition nary longer beryllium required to beryllium for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

JAMB announced this successful a station connected its X grip during its ongoing argumentation gathering connected 2026 admissions.

“Candidates seeking admissions into Education Programmes and Agriculture non-Engineering Courses are present exempted from UTME,” the committee wrote connected X.

The improvement comes arsenic the heels of Nigerian authorities announcing the scrapping of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, arsenic a request for admittance into Colleges of Education.

The national authorities said candidates seeking admittance into Nigeria Certificate successful Education, NCE, programmes, volition nary longer beryllium required to beryllium for UTME.

BREAKING: JAMB exempts Education, Agriculture candidates from UTME