JAMB TO IMPOSE PENALTIES ON UNDERAGE APPLICANTS IN 2025 UTME REGISTRATION

Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede has said there will be stiff penalties for underage applicants in the ongoing 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) registration.

Prof. Oloyede, who monitored the registration across various centres in Lagos recently, expressed that out of the 780,202 candidates registered so far, 11,512 are underage.

He said JAMB had given the opportunity to exceptionally brilliant underage students who are not up to 16 years old to register, but it is being abused. He said: “We will impose some other penalty on them that it will have been better for them to have stayed for their time because they are going to waste their money. “This is the second week, the tenth day of the registration and we have registered 780,202, but surprisingly 11,512 of them are underage.”