The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that the 2026 Policy Meeting, where critical decisions on admissions into tertiary institutions across Nigeria will be taken, will hold on Monday.
In a statement issued on Sunday by JAMB’s Public Communications Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, the Board disclosed that the meeting would be chaired by the Minister of Education and attended by key stakeholders in the education sector.
According to the statement, the meeting will consider and approve admission guidelines for the 2026/2027 academic session, including the determination of minimum cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions nationwide.
JAMB stated that the meeting would focus on “the determination of the minimum tolerable scores for admissions,” which would serve as benchmarks for the admission process into universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other tertiary institutions.
The Board also revealed that the event would host a delegation from Sierra Leone made up of the country’s Deputy Minister of Education, Mr. Sarjoh Aziz Kamara, alongside two vice-chancellors, Prof. Edwin Momoh of Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology and Prof. Bashiru Koroma of Njala University.
According to JAMB, the Sierra Leonean delegation is in Nigeria to understudy the country’s centralised admission system as part of efforts to establish a similar institution in their country.
The Board disclosed that the delegation had already been taken through JAMB’s examination and admission processes at its headquarters in Bwari, Abuja.
JAMB further noted that the visitors would observe how stakeholders are actively involved in the country’s admission process during the Policy Meeting.
“The Sierra Leonean delegation expressed profound appreciation to the Board, noting that the increasing admission population in their country has posed serious challenges and that the Nigerian model offers practical solutions to issues they had long sought to address,” the statement said.
The Board added that Nigeria’s admission process has remained structured and coordinated through JAMB’s centralised system, stressing the strategic importance of the agency in managing admissions into tertiary institutions across the country.
