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The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday affirmed that a 10-member caretaker committee, led by Tony Aziegbemi, is the legitimate leadership of its Edo State chapter. This was stated in a release issued by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba. The statement read in part: “The attention of the national leadership of the Peoples
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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, has said the board has provided an opportunity for the ‘exceptionally brilliant candidates’ below 16 years old to sit for the annual Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. Oloyede, made this disclosure on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a
UTME 2025: JAMB opens ‘Exceptionally Brilliant Window’ for candidates below 16 years
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, has said the board has provided an opportunity for the ‘exceptionally brilliant candidates’ below 16 years old to sit for the annual Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
Oloyede, made this disclosure on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television.
“In 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.
“We are saying 16 years is the minimum but if you know you are exceptional, register for exceptional candidacy – that is you are less than 16 years old and exceptional.
“I’m 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,” he said.
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.
He also said that parents are doing everything, affidavit of age and everything.
“The parents want to use the children to decorate their CVs. They want to say “I am the mother of a lawyer, my child graduated at age 13,” he added.
UTME 2025: JAMB opens ‘Exceptionally Brilliant Window’ for candidates below 16 years
Bayer Leverkusen and Nigeria striker Victor Boniface will miss Wednesday’s Champions League match at Brest after a car accident on Sunday. Boniface did not train in Leverkusen on Tuesday, and German media sources Bild and Kicker reported that the forward was not on board when the plane departed for France in the afternoon. On Sunday,
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Bayer Leverkusen and Nigeria striker Victor Boniface will miss Wednesday’s Champions League match at Brest after a car accident on Sunday. Boniface did not train in Leverkusen on Tuesday, and German media sources Bild and Kicker reported that the forward was not on board when the plane departed for France in the afternoon. On Sunday,
