The Senate Committee on Basic Education said it will pursue the amendment of the law establishing the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to enable it limit the age of candidates writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME to 16 years and above. Eyakenyi 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. The committee however queried why JAMB had almost 100% performance of its 2020 budget and over N500 million devoted to staff welfare apart from their regular salaries. He added that JAMB also sought the approval of the wages and salaries commission to pay its staff 13th month salary every year. He noted that some candidates results may be withdrawn if after reviewing the exercise on CCTV they are found to be culpable of malpractice.

Source: The Guardian July 13, 2021 10:49 UTC