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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has insisted that only candidates that are 16-years are eligible for admission into Nigerian universities. It stated that only candidates that are 16-years at the time of admission shall be considered eligible into higher institutions in the country.

This is even as the Board raised the alarm over an upsurge in the number of doctored and upwardly adjusted age declarations. It maintained that candidates now falsify their age on NIN slips.

JAMB, therefore, expressed worry that the trend of underage candidates falsifying their age to gain admission into the university has become dangerous. It described the development as inimical to education development and quite unnecessary.

Recall that JAMB has now insisted that only candidates who will be at least sixteen years old at the time of admission will be considered eligible for admittance into the university.

This was contained in a statement by the Board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin. He noted that the directive came from the Chairman of the Board at the 2024 tertiary admission policy meeting.

Quoting the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, he said the extant 6-3-3-4 on education will be enforced only from the 2025 academic session.

It read in part, “This position is informed by the discovery of widespread and unwholesome practices. Whereby, some institutions collude with candidates to falsify vital details. Such as backdated year of entry and subsequent age adjustments. And to the utilization of certificates of genuine candidates with similar names to facilitate illegal admissions. This is to enable participation of fake candidates in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.”

 

 

 

 

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