{"id":46672,"date":"2021-07-13T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T16:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=46672"},"modified":"2021-07-13T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T15:33:57","slug":"senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme","title":{"rendered":"Senate considers amending JAMB Act to limit age of writing UTME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Senate Committee on Basic Education has said it will pursue the amendment of the law establishing the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to enable it limit the age of candidates writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to 16 years and above.<\/p>\n<p>Vice Chairman of the committee, Senator Akon Eyakenyi gave the indication during the committee\u2019s oversight visit to JAMB.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the committee had identified two major areas to be addressed in the proposed amendment for the exam body to function better.<\/p>\n<p>Eyakenyi said \u201cOur 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\u2019s the area of support we will give.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Details shortly\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Senate President, Lawan denies advocating 3rd term for Buhari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Senate Committee on Basic Education has said it will pursue the amendment of the law establishing the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to enable it limit the age of candidates writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to 16 years and above. Vice Chairman of the committee, Senator Akon Eyakenyi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,610,254,53,658],"class_list":["post-46672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-jamb","tag-nigeria","tag-senate","tag-utme"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senate considers amending JAMB Act to limit age of writing UTME - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Senate Committee on Basic Education has said it will pursue the amendment of the law establishing the Joint Admissio ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate considers amending JAMB Act to limit age of writing UTME\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Senate Committee on Basic Education has said it will pursue the amendment of the law establishing the Joint Admissio ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-13T16:07:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60edb2436f6d4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Senate considers amending JAMB Act to limit age of writing UTME\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-13T16:07:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme\"},\"wordCount\":186,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60edb2436f6d4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"JAMB\",\"Nigeria\",\"senate\",\"UTME\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-considers-amending-jamb-act-to-limit-age-of-writing-utme\",\"name\":\"Senate considers amending JAMB Act to limit age of writing UTME - 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