The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has raised alarm over an upsurge in the number of doctored and upwardly adjusted age declarations on NIN slips being submitted by candidates.
The exam body expressed worry
that the trend of underage candidates falsifying their age to gain admission
into the university has become dangerous, inimical and unnecessary.
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.
A statement by the board’s
spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, said the directive came from the Chairman of the
2024 tertiary admission policy meeting and 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.
The statement partly read, ”This
position is informed by the discovery of widespread and unwholesome practice
whereby some institutions collude with candidates to falsify vital details,
such as backdated year of entry and subsequent age adjustments, to utilise certificates
of genuine candidates with similar names to facilitate illegal admissions to
enable participation of fake candidates in the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) scheme.”
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