JAMB gives candidates until November 30 to decide on older admission offers

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has extended the deadline for candidates with outstanding admission offers from 2021 to 2025 to accept or reject them on its Central Admissions Processing System, known as CAPS. In a statement posted on its X handle on Wednesday, the board said affected candidates would now have until November 30, 2026, to make a decision. It urged them to log into their CAPS accounts and indicate whether they wished to accept or reject their offers.

JAMB said candidates who failed to act by the new deadline would lose the status of their outstanding offers on its records. Offers that remained neither accepted nor rejected after November 30 would automatically revert to “Not Admitted”. The board also warned that any subsequent request to update an admission after the deadline would attract the applicable penalty fee.

It advised candidates not to wait until the final day before checking their accounts and completing the process. The latest extension follows earlier changes to the deadline. JAMB had initially set August 31 as the cut-off date before moving it to September 30.

The earlier extension applied to candidates offered admission from 2021 onward. JAMB previously said candidates who accepted their offers would be able to print and obtain their admission letters. Those who rejected offers would have their dashboards changed to “Not Admitted”.

The board also said candidates who had moved to another institution or programme could accept an earlier outstanding offer and then seek the appropriate correction or deletion where necessary. Candidates offered admission in the 2026 exercise could reject an earlier offer without affecting their newer admission.