The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has raised alarm over an upsurge within the variety of doctored and upwardly adjusted age declarations on NIN slips being submitted by candidates.
The examination physique expressed fear that the development of underage candidates falsifying their age to achieve admission into the college has turn into harmful, inimical and pointless.
JAMB has now insisted that solely candidates who shall be at the very least sixteen years previous on the time of admission shall be thought-about eligible for admittance into the college.
An announcement by the board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, stated the directive got here from the Chairman of the 2024 tertiary admission coverage assembly and Minister of Schooling, Prof Tahir Mamman.
He stated the extant 6-3-3-4 on schooling shall be enforced solely from the 2025 educational session.
The assertion partly learn, ”This place is knowledgeable by the invention of widespread and unwholesome apply whereby some establishments collude with candidates to falsify important particulars, reminiscent of backdated yr of entry and subsequent age changes, to utilise certificates of real candidates with related names to facilitate unlawful admissions to allow participation of faux candidates within the Nationwide Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.”
