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FUTO announces 2025/2026 Admission for JUPEB, Degree Programmes

Kings Olajide
The Management of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), Nigeria has advertised the commencement of sale of forms for admission into the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board (JUPEB) programme for the 2025/2026 academic session.

The programme is being coordinated under the aegis of the University's Centre of Continuing Education (CCE).

In a public notice electronically signed by the FUTO Registrar, Chiedozie Uba, prospective students were advised to visit the University website, www.futo.edu.ng click here to digitally obtain the form as well as apply for the programme.

According to the press release, the special programme, which reportedly lasts for one year, grants the candidates access to acquire the JUPEB Certificate upon completion.

The obtained certificate would enable them to gain Direct Entry Admission into any JUPEB-affiliated university in Nigeria and in the Diaspora.

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The notice further notified that lectures would commence on 22nd September, 2025.

A phone call put across by the RostrumNews to the Director of the FUTO CCE, Professor Benedict Ozurumba, disclosed that the JUPEB programme does not encounter any form of hitch in the course of studies, because it’s not affected by any industrial action, or related matters.

For more enquiries, prospective applicants were asked to dial any of the following numbers:-
+234- 07037694227, 07034517474

The University equally advertises for Post-UTME applications into undergraduate degree programmes for 2025/2026 academic session. The announcement is as given below:

According to the advert, prospective applicants were advised to visit the application portal for any necessary action.

click here to apply

Fred Nwaozor, popularly known as TheMediaAmbassador, is a Nigerian tech expert, author, creative & content writer, media strategist, policy analyst, blogger, public speaker and rights activist. The renowned columnist regularly writes for the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), and is the Founder & Convener of Right Thinkers Movement (RITMO), Nigeria. He's a chartered industrial physicist, engineer and IT personnel. As a media guru, he enjoys an active presence in all media segments - including electronic, print & online - since two decades ago till date. As a full-time researcher and educator, he's a regular contributor and peer reviewer for various internationally-noted engineering journals. As Telecommunications and Automation engineer, his research interest mainly lies in System Modelling, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart city, Cybersecurity, Wireless networks, and Machine Learning (ML).