{"id":149551,"date":"2025-02-10T11:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/utme-2025-jamb-opens-exceptionally-brilliant-window-for-candidates-below-16-years"},"modified":"2025-02-15T22:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:53:57","slug":"utme-2025-jamb-opens-exceptionally-brilliant-window-for-candidates-below-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/utme-2025-jamb-opens-exceptionally-brilliant-window-for-candidates-below-16-years","title":{"rendered":"UTME 2025: JAMB opens \u2018Exceptionally Brilliant Window\u2019 for candidates below 16 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, has said the board has provided an opportunity for the \u2018exceptionally brilliant candidates\u2019 below 16 years old to sit for the annual Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.<\/p>\n<p>Oloyede, made this disclosure on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Nigeria, there are many brilliant students, we have so many excellent people. We are enforcing the 16-year minimum entry into tertiary institutions but some people are saying there are exceptional students. Yes, there are exceptional students but they are just one in a million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are saying 16 years is the minimum but if you know you are exceptional, register for exceptional candidacy \u2013 that is you are less than 16 years old and exceptional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, normal children cannot grow at a rate higher than their biological age, adding that what parents are now doing is increasing the age of their children.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that parents are doing everything, affidavit of age and everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parents want to use the children to decorate their CVs. They want to say \u201cI am the mother of a lawyer, my child graduated at age 13,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, has said the board has provided an opportunity for the \u2018exceptionally brilliant candidates\u2019 below 16 years old to sit for the annual Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. 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