The Joint Admissions and Admission Board (JAMB) has given prospects with pending admission offers from 2021 to 2025 additional time to accept or reject them on its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).
In a notice published on its official X account on Wednesday, the board repaired November 30, 2026, as the brand-new due date for impacted prospects to respond to their deals.
JAMB encouraged candidates yet to do something about it to sign in to their CAPS accounts and show whether they mean to accept or decline the admissions.
The board cautioned that any exceptional offer left unsettled after the brand-new deadline would be changed to “Not Confessed” in its records.
“After 30 November, exceptional deals that have neither been accepted nor declined will go back to ‘Not Admitted’ on JAMB’s records,” the board stated.
It likewise motivated prospects to evaluate their admission status early instead of wait up until the final days of the extension.
The most recent announcement follows an earlier extension released on August 30, when JAMB moved the deadline for candidates with admission uses dating from 2021 to September 30, 2026. The preliminary due date had been August 31.
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In its previous notice, the board explained that prospects who accepted their offers would have the ability to print and acquire their admission letters, while those who rejected them would have their CAPS control panels upgraded to “Not Admitted”.
JAMB had actually also clarified that candidates who had actually transferred to another organization or changed programmes could accept an earlier outstanding offer before looking for the pertinent correction or deletion, where essential.
Prospects admitted throughout the 2026 admission workout were likewise permitted to decline previous outstanding deals without jeopardising their existing admission, according to the board’s earlier guidance.
However, under the latest extension, any 2021– 2025 deal that remains neither accepted nor declined by November 30 will instantly be taped as “Not Admitted”.
JAMB even more alerted that candidates looking for to update such admissions after the due date would be required to pay the appropriate charge fee.