The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, has declared that candidates under 18 will no longer be permitted to take the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination beginning next year.
The Minister announced this during an interview with Channels TV on Sunday in Abuja. Mamman noted that the minimum required for admission is 18 years according to the country’s education policy.
However, he stated that the federal government has decided to allow students to take the JAMB examination this year as a form of advance notice to parents for the changes that will take effect next year. “Nothing has changed. It is still 18 years. What we did at the JAMB meeting was to allow this year and for it to serve as a kind of notice for parents that, this year JAMB will admit students below 18 years.
But from next year, JAMB will insist anybody going to apply to university in Nigeria meets the required age which is 18 years.
