The deadline for candidates to accept or reject their pending admission offers has been extended by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, or JAMB, from 2021 to the present.
The previous deadline of Monday, August 31, has been replaced by Wednesday, September 30, 2026, according to JAMB.
Candidates who have pending admission offers now have additional time to decide whether to accept or reject them thanks to the extension.
Candidates who accept their offers will be allowed to print their admission letters, according to JAMB, while those who refuse them will have their dashboards changed back to “Not Admitted.”
The board also clarified that candidates who have secured admission in the 2026 admission exercise but still have an earlier admission offer pending can reject the previous offer without affecting their new admission.
It stated that applicants may accept the pending offer and thereafter request the necessary revision or deletion, if applicable, if they are currently enrolled in a different program or studying somewhere else.
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JAMB issued a warning, stating that the deadline of September 30 is final and that all unaccepted admission offers will be instantly changed back to “Not Admitted”.
“There will be no further opportunity after the expiration of the extended deadline on Wednesday, 30 September 2026,” the Board stated.
It urged all affected candidates to take action before the deadline, warning that failure to accept an admission offer within the stipulated period will render the offer invalid.
Meanwhile, a special purpose committee has been established by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to look into 6,458 instances of technology-driven misconduct that were discovered during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The 23-member committee was officially launched in Abuja on Monday by Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of JAMB.
Prof. Oloyede bemoaned the growing complexity of test fraud in his remarks during the inauguration.
He urged the committee to deliver a report no later than three weeks after the committee’s inauguration, revealing that the results of 6,458 candidates are still being investigated for suspected high-tech cheating.
“This year we came across a number of strange things, and we felt that it would be better if we expanded our resources. And we believe that God has endowed this nation with a lot of resources that we can tap from,” Oloyede said.
According to him, malpractice has evolved beyond traditional schemes into “technologically sophisticated forms,” including multiple cases of biometric and identity fraud by some accredited CBT centres and candidates.
He disclosed that while 141 cases of “normal” exam malpractice have been sent to JAMB’s disciplinary committee, the committee will handle “extraordinary infractions,” such as image blending, albinism falsification, finger pairing, and attempts to breach some CBT centres’ local area network.
