NDA: Nigerian Defence Academy Announces New Date for 77 Regular Course Screening Tests
Legit.ng journalist Adekunle Dada has over 8 years of experience covering basic and tertiary education in Nigeria and worldwide
Kaduna state - The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) said the screening test for the 77 Regular Course will now take place on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
The NDA said the screening test will be conducted as a Computer-Based Test (CBT) in various centres nationwide.
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This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, via the NDA X handle @NDefenceAcademy.
According to the statement, all applicants are advised to visit the NDA portal to select their centre of choice for the screening test from 5 - 9 June 2025.
Applicants are warned to avoid selecting more than one centre for the screening test.
The NDA registrar said selecting more than one centre will result in automatic disqualification from the admission process.
“Applicants who obtain the minimum cutoff of 180 marks and above based on the official result obtained from JAMB shall receive an email from NDA to register for the screening test.”
Applicants are reminded to bring their acknowledgment form, screening test admission card, JAMB registration slip, and two postcard photographs to the venue of the screening test.
The NDA noted that the photographs should indicate the applicant’s name, state of origin, screening test centre, JAMB registration number, course of study, and signature at the back.
According to NDA, the application portal is open till midnight of 4 June 2025 for candidates who selected the institution as their first choice in JAMB and had not completed their application on the NDA portal.
Legit.ng reports that the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) is a military university in Kaduna, northern west Nigeria.
The institution was established in 1964 to train officers for commissioning into one of the three Nigerian Armed Forces services (the Nigerian Army, Navy, and Air Force).
This article did a breakdown of most NDA courses cut-off marks for the 2025/2026 admission period.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the NDA invited the general public to apply for the ongoing 76th Regular Course applications.
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) said interested candidates must be at least 17 years old and not more than 21 years old as of August 2025.
The registrar, O. A. Ogunleye, said cadets, upon admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy, are full-time students and not employees in training.
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