The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, claims the board has established the Exceptionally Brilliant Window for candidates enrolled in the annual Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) annually.
Oloyede, who is also a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, was a guest on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television.
He said, “In Nigeria, there are many brilliant students, we have so many excellent people. Some people claim that there are exceptional students, but we are enforcing the 16-year minimum for tertiary institutions. Yes, there are some exceptional students, but only one in a million of them exist.
” We are saying 16 years is the minimum but if you know you are exceptional, register for exceptional candidacy – that is you are less than 16 years old and exceptional.
“I’m surprised, just from Monday to now, over 2, 000 have registered in the whole country. Some of them are 10, 11, and 12-year-olds whose parents have found crooked ways of jumping classes.
Normal children cannot develop at a rate greater than their biological age. What parents are now doing is increasing the age of their children, they are doing everything, affidavit of age and everything.
“The parents want the kids to use their CVs as decoration.” They claim that my child, who is 13 years old, is the mother of an attorney.
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Source: Channels TV
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