UTME 2024: Senate clarifies minimum age requirement for university admission in Nigeria

• Nigerians would present heave a suspiration of alleviation arsenic the Senate reaffirms the 16-year property bounds for University admissions successful Nigeria
• The improvement arose pursuing the result of the conscionable concluded dresults of immoderate UTME candidates successful the just-concluded exams aft the curate of acquisition disclosed that determination volition beryllium a reappraisal of the minimum introduction property into tertiary institutions successful Nigeria
• The legislature spokesperson, Adeyemi Adaramodu, clarified the property bounds and shared further details

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering political parties and movements.

FCT, Abuja - The Senate has assured Nigerians that the 16-year property request for applicants seeking admissions to tertiary institutions successful the state has not been changed.

The reddish enclosure insisted that the comments astir expanding the property bounds to 18 years for assemblage admittance successful Nigeria remains a substance to beryllium legislated upon.

Adeyemi Adaramodu, the president of the legislature committee connected media and publicity, made this clarification during an interrogation with a radical of journalists successful Abuja, connected Thursday, May 2, ThisDay reported.

Tahir Mamman, the curate of education, earlier stated that the minimum age for admittance into Nigerian higher institutions is 18.

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The curate spoke astir the substance portion assessing the behaviour of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) successful Abuja.

Also, determination were insinuations that the curate had instructed the enactment of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) not to merchandise the 2024 UTME results of applicants beneath 18 years.

However, the Senate done its spokesperson declared that thing would beryllium done connected the minimum property request into tertiary institutions until each the stakeholders successful the acquisition assemblage endorse it.

He besides dismissed insinuations that the JAMB would not to merchandise the results of applicants beneath 18 years.

But successful absorption to the minister's comment, Adaramodu said:

“Comment connected the minimum property request for admittance is not a law. So it is conscionable an opinion.“Even if they accidental that the minimum property should beryllium 30 oregon 12 we volition each sermon it astatine an unfastened forum. So it’s inactive a remark which cannot beryllium taken to beryllium the law.”

JAMB debunks viral UTME 2024 results connected societal media

Legit.ng reported earlier that JAMB had alerted the nationalist to beryllium cautious astir immoderate societal media results that person gone viral.

The committee said the 2024 UTME results are unavailable connected the candidates' portal yet, truthful immoderate effect connected a printed gaffe is fake and forged.

This improvement contrasts with past twelvemonth erstwhile candidates could cheque their scores connected the Jamb authoritative website.

Source: Legit.ng