The Joint Admissions and Admission Board (JAMB) has dismissed as incorrect a widely circulated report claiming that the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Assessment (UTME) has been postponed.
In a statement launched on Saturday, the evaluation body explained the purported press release as “harmful” and prompted prospects and the general public to disregard it, highlighting that it did not originate from the board.
“Our attention has actually been drawn to a harmful press release declaring that the 2026 UTME has actually been held off. We wish to state plainly that the notification is fake and did not originate from the board. Candidates and the public are encouraged to overlook it. All arrangements for the 2026 UTME remain on course as set up,” JAMB specified.
The board declared that the 2026 UTME will continue as earlier announced, from Thursday, April 16 to Saturday, April 25, 2026.
JAMB’s clarification follows the conduct of the 2026 UTME mock assessment on March 28, which experienced technical problems in some Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres across the country. Out of the 224,597 candidates who registered for the mock exercise, 152,586 successfully sat for the test throughout 989 centres.
The board even more divulged that over 20 CBT centres affected by technical obstacles have actually because been delisted due to insufficient infrastructure, as part of efforts to make sure a smooth and credible primary assessment.