The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, said it has uncovered a number of fraudulent practices through which tertiary institutions in the country are admitting students into their programmes, warning that it breaches the academic policy.
At a media parley on Sunday in Abuja, JAMB's Public Affairs Advisor, Benjamin Fabian insisted that the minimum age for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2024/2025 session is 16 years as agreed by all stakeholders in the recent policy meeting hosted in the nation's capital. 'For the 2024 admission cycle, candidates who will be at least sixteen years old at the time of admission will be considered eligible.
however, insists that to close this abused window, the Board has decided that all institutions should now disclose all candidates illegally admitted prior to 2017 whose records are in their system within the next one month beginning from 1st August 2024. Fabian maintained that any admission purportedly given prior to 2017 will no longer be recognised or condoned unless disclosed within this one-month window.
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