The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is set to hold its 2026 Policy Meeting on Monday, May 11, where key decisions regarding admissions into tertiary institutions across Nigeria will be discussed and adopted.
The meeting, which will be chaired by the Minister of Education, is expected to determine guidelines for the 2026 admission exercise, including the minimum admissible scores for universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other tertiary institutions.
JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement issued ahead of the meeting. 
According to him, this year’s policy meeting will also attract international attention, with a delegation from Sierra Leone attending to study Nigeria’s centralised admission system.
The delegation is led by Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Sarjoh Aziz Kamara, alongside the Vice-Chancellor of Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, Prof. Edwin Momoh, and the Vice-Chancellor of Njala University, Prof. Bashiru Koroma.
Benjamin explained that the Sierra Leonean officials are in Nigeria to understudy the operations of JAMB as their country plans to establish a similar body to coordinate and streamline admissions into tertiary institutions.
He revealed that the delegation had already visited JAMB headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, where they were taken through the Board’s examination and admission processes.
The visitors are also expected to observe how stakeholders participate in the admission process during the policy meeting.
According to the statement, the Sierra Leonean delegation expressed appreciation to JAMB, noting that the increasing number of admission seekers in their country has created challenges that the Nigerian model appears capable of addressing.
Benjamin also defended the relevance of JAMB amid recurring calls in some quarters for the Board to be scrapped, stressing that the agency remains strategic to Nigeria’s admission system.
