JAMB has moved swiftly to shut down a false report circulating online, confirming that the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination has not been postponed and that all arrangements remain firmly on schedule for 16 April.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the Board described the widely shared press release as fake and deliberately misleading, urging candidates and the public to disregard it entirely. “Our attention has been drawn to a malicious press release alleging that the 2026 UTME has been postponed. We wish to state clearly that the notice is fake and did not emanate from the board. Candidates and the general public are advised to disregard it. All arrangements for the 2026 UTME remain on course as scheduled,” JAMB stated.
The clarification follows the 2026 UTME mock examination held on 28 March, which was disrupted by technical issues at a number of Computer Based Test centres across the country. Of the 224,597 candidates who registered for the mock exercise, 152,586 successfully sat the test across 989 CBT centres nationwide. The Board has since delisted more than 20 centres that encountered technical difficulties during the exercise, citing inadequate infrastructure as the basis for the decision.
The main UTME remains scheduled to run from Thursday, 16 April to Saturday, 25 April 2026.
If you have seen a message, post, or press release claiming the 2026 UTME has been postponed, ignore it. It is fake. Your examination date has not changed. Continue your preparation, verify information only through JAMB’s official channels, and do not allow false reports to disrupt your focus in the days leading up to the examination.
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