{"id":4643,"date":"2025-02-10T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2025-02-10T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:20:39","slug":"jamb-insists-on-16-years-age-limit-for-admission-warn-cbt-centres-against-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/jamb-insists-on-16-years-age-limit-for-admission-warn-cbt-centres-against-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMB insists on 16 years age limit for admission, warn CBT centres against extortion\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4644\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/download-3-1-290x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/download-3-1-290x300.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/download-3-1.jpeg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Publisher<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it will enforce the 16 years age limit for admission into universities.<\/p>\n<p>However, it added that the board would consider exceptional candidates below 16 years for a waiver if they score 80% in four examination papers.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, the JAMB Registrar,\u00a0\u00a0states this during a meeting with stakeholders in the education sector comprising Chief External Examiners (CEEs), Chief Technical Advisors (CTAs) and Equal Opportunity Group (EOG), among others ahead 2025 UTME registration exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about complying with the law, the Honourable Minister of Education mentioned it clearly when he assumed office that the minimum age for admission would be 16 but we are also aware that there are gifted children and they are few. These gifted children can\u2019t be dismissed like that. We will have to identify them and allow them to take the exam,\u201d Oloyede said.<\/p>\n<p>He further said he was not satisfied with the attitudes of some private universities that allow underage admission and later migrate such students to other programmes due to poor standing, including parents who reduce their children\u2019s ages to enable them undergo the one-year mandatory service of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile, the\u00a0 university admissions examination body warned CBT centres against extortion, insists on cashless registration<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has warned Computer-Based Test, CBT, centres against extorting candidates by collecting cash from them in the ongoing 2025 UTME registration exercise.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Board restated its stance on cashless registration and warned that violators of its policy will be severely sanctioned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Publisher Kindly share: The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it will enforce the 16 years age&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-joint-admissions-and-matriculation-board"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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