The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that underage candidates registering for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will face strict penalties.
Speaking to journalists in Lagos on Friday while monitoring the ongoing UTME registration, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, revealed that 11,512 out of the 780,202 candidates registered so far were underage. He noted that while JAMB had previously allowed exceptionally brilliant candidates below 16 years to register, the privilege is now being widely abused.
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