Don’t enrol minors for our exams, JAMB warns parents

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sent a warning to parents to stop enrolling minors for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The Registrar of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede issued the warning on Wednesday, 13 March, 2024 while reacting to a suit, filed by one Ifeanyi Eke, against the exam body over alleged inappropriate text messages sent to her 15-year-old daughter during the course of her registration.

Eke had filed a N100 million suit against JAMB and three others before a Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged unsolicited and inappropriate text messages sent to her 15-year-old daughter.

According to Oloyede JAMB is ready to
meet with the woman, maintaining that the sender of the message was not its staff.

“The person is not our staff, he is not even a staff of the centre, he is a co-student,” Oloyede said.

“He is just like a candidate, an undergraduate in one of the universities and talking about our data, nobody has access to our data. The person got the information from the phone of the under age girl.

“Is your girl of 15 years ready for University now, if she is law abiding as she claimed? The law today is that you must spend six years before primary school, six years in primary school and six years in secondary school. By that time, you are 18.

“But when you reduce three years, you must have cut corners to make a 15 year old child ready for University education.”

He said JAMB will meet her in court, a d that it is for the court to decide whether she deserves the N100 million.