The Senate Committee on Basic Education has expressed readiness to pursue the amendment of the law establishing the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to reduce age limit of candidates writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to 16 years and above.
Senator Akon Eyakenyi, Vice Chairman of the committee, made this known during the committee’s visit to JAMB.
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The senator said “Our 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’s the area of support we will give.
“Other 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.”
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