BREAKING: Senate Considers Amending JAMB Act To Limit Age Of Writing UTME
The Senate Committee on Basic Education has announced that it will seek to alter the statute creating the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), to allow it to limit the age of candidates taking the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), to 16 years and above.
Senator Akon Eyakenyi, the committee’s Vice Chairman, provided the hint during the committee’s monitoring visit to JAMB.
According to him, the committee had highlighted two significant areas in the proposed amendment that needed to be rectified in order for the exam body to work more effectively.
Eyakenyi said “Our own work is that of making laws, to legislate; we have identified two major areas that we need to go into the process of amending the act establishing JAMB. That’s the area of support we will give.
“Other than that, we also intend to pass on what we have seen today to the appropriate MDAs, the Federal Ministry of Education to ensure the support that JAMB needs is given to them.”
Details later…
