Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede has alleged that some tertiary institutions in Nigeria were found to have illegally admitted candidates as young as 10 and 12.
Oloyede said this while reacting to the new minimum age for admissions into tertiary institution, during the Board’s policy meeting in Abuja on Friday.
He said some universities had admitted candidates as young as 12 and 10 outside JAMB’s central admission processing system (CAPS).
According to TheCable, Oloyede cited the case of a Nigerian institution he did not name and a postgraduate applicant who was looking to study in Germany.
He said the student, documented to have enrolled in the university at 12 to graduate at 15, was discovered after they attempted to pursue a postgraduate degree in Germany.
