The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has pledged that the board will penalise any applicant who wrongly claims underage during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration.
Oloyede stated this yesterday when he visited some computer-based test (CBT) centres in Lagos.
The JAMB boss warned applicants who claimed underage that they would be penalised for wasting the resources of the board.
According to him, “As of today, we have registered 780,202. This is the second week, the 10th day of the registration and you know it’s live. So that is figure at this moment, but surprisingly 11,512 of them are underage.
“When you are expecting 30 to 40, you can see the deceit. Today alone, we have registered 18,813 so far and out of the 18,813, 443 of them are underage and that’s part of the introduction this year that we could have those who are underage. We could see what their problems were, we could pick from among them those who are sincerely underage and gifted.”