Following the announcement, JAMB rolled out the registration process for interested candidates across the country.

The JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, during a meeting with media executives in Lagos State on Sunday, said that measures have been put in place to ensure a smooth exercise for all interested candidates.

Oloyede disclosed that UTME candidates would register first before the Direct Entry candidates.

He added that the sale of DE application documents and E-PIN vending will begin on Wednesday, February 28 and close by Thursday, March 28, 2024.

The registrar said, “It is available only at JAMB Offices.

Things to know before applying

1. The JAMB Direct Entry form is different from the JAMB UTME form, which is for candidates who want to apply for admission into the first year of the university programme.

2. You can only register at JAMB offices.

3. You cannot apply for both JAMB DE and UTME in the same year.

4. The JAMB DE form is an online application form. You need to fill and submit it on the jamb portal.

5. JAMB only recognises and accepts twelve qualifications/certificates.

6. Statement of result is accepted for registration only within three years of the date of award.

7. Upgrade from UTME to DE is available only to candidates whose DE results have not been released at the point of UTME registration and those who indicated at the point of registration that he/she is awaiting A-level results.

8. The DE fee for the 2024/2025 session is tagged at N3,500. Other payments include N700 for the CBT Centre registration service charge, N1,500 for the CBT Centre service charge for mock/UTME and N500 for bank charges/commission.

This amounts to N6,200 for candidates who are not sitting for the MOCK examination and N7,700 will be paid by those who would sit for the MOCK examination.

9. You must have a National Identification Number.

How to pay

The following are the methods of payment that can be explored by interested candidates.

1. Bank payment: You can use the e-PIN generated on the JAMB portal to pay.

2. Online payment: Use your ATM card or USSD code on the JAMB portal to pay.

3. POS payment: You can pay with POS at any accredited CBT or JAMB office.

To register, follow the steps below:

1. Create your JAMB profile.

2. To create your JAMB profile, send your NIN to 55019 or 66019 as a text message. Write ‘NIN’ then space and add your 11-digit NIN number and send to 55019 or 66019.

E.g NIN 00123456789

Note that there should be space between the word NIN and your 11-digit NIN

After that, you will receive a confirmation code.

The cell phone number used for sending NIN to 55019 or 66019 is automatically tied to the candidate’s name supplied by NIMC and will be used in all communications related to his/her 2023 Application/Examination.

3. Then log into the JAMB portal with the code.

4. Visit any accredited bank, CBT Centre or embassy ( for candidates in foreign countries) to get the JAMB e-PIN. You will need your confirmation code and pay the required fee to get the e-PIN.

5. After sending a message to 55019 or 66019, you will receive:

– 10-digit profile code

– Registered name with NIMC

-Total cost for UTME with Mock and without Mock

Dear Fabian Thomas, Your Profile code: 172081003 and NIN 44617822814. Visit www.jamb.gov.ng, Quick Links, then IBASS for eBrochure. Buy UTME pin with Mock N7,700, without Mock N6,200 and DE pin N6,200.”

5. Presents the profile code at the point of procurement of form (Banks, MMOs, MFBs, Switches, USSD Partners). The form ePIN is then sent as a text message to you.

6. Then proceed to present the ePIN at any JAMB accredited CBT centre for registration.

She was arrested at JAMB headquarters in Bwari area of Abuja, where she turned up in company of her father to lodge a complaint of getting two result slips from JAMB after increasing her score from 164 to 264.

Mordi confessed to getting the fake result from one Iyanuoluwa via Whatsapp. She further revealed that the fake JAMB agent sent her result to her phone after collecting her registration number and that of three other candidates.

JAMB’s bulletin released on Sunday September 9, read; “The 19-year-old who falsified her 2019 UTME result from 164 to 264 had petitioned us for (allegedly) giving her two results in the 2019 UTME. The board, upon receipt of the complaint, invited the candidate who appeared before the board in company of her father, Frank Emordi. The Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, read the riot act to the petitioner and her father and gave them a grace period to retrace their steps, knowing that there is forensic analysis that she falsified the score. Upon the expiration of the opportunity, after thorough examination of the evidence, the candidate owned up to her misdeeds. She said the agent sent the inflated result to her through a Whatsapp group which she had deleted. Checks by the board revealed that the candidate had made three successful attempts at checking her result. However, on the candidate’s dashboard, 164 score still remained. She had since been handed over to security agents for further interrogation.”

The candidate was alleged to have engaged the services of some cum men through facebook and whatsapp platforms, having come across an advertisement which read, “Do you want to upgrade your 2019 JAMB results? Is your scores too poor for admission into any of the universities, then contact the following numbers…”

Eche who fell for the trick quickly contacted the numbers and requested that his scores be upgraded from the original 153 to 200 but they later settled for 290.

After transferring some monies to the fraudsters, he then wrote a letter to the JAMB authority informing them that they made a mistake in his scores earlier released and that his main scores was 290.

He also furnished the JAMB office with copies of the forged results, which upon investigation was found to be fake.

The development then compelled the Register and Chief Executive of JAMB to invite the candidate to come for his admission letting at the headquarters where he was apprehended and paraded before newsmen.

It was also alleged that the candidate’s senior secondary school results were also fake as he could hardly communicate in simple sentences during interrogation.

Apart from engaging the services of those that helped him in forging the scores, he was also encouraging other candidates who scored below the cut off marks to upgrade theirs as well in order for them to gain admission.

Details of the transaction and communication with other unsuspecting candidates who were interested in the act were found in his cell phone.

Recall that the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination was marred by malpractices, inspite of measures adopted by JAMB to forestall such practices.

In some instances, a single candidate registered for the examination a record 64 times, a development that led to delays in releasing the results earlier.