The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has barred parents from the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination centres.
This is as the body also said applicants between 14 and 15-year-old are not qualified to take the examination.
JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, was quoted as saying this in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Friday.
Oloyede was said to have taken the decision after inspecting some of the registration centres in Kwara, which were overcrowded.
“CBT Centres across the country will not allow parents/guardians into the registration hall again.
“The registrar said it has been discovered that the parents/guardians are always a distraction to both candidates and the centres and at the same time, congesting the halls by not following the COVID – 19 protocols.
“Oloyede also advised parents/guardians to stop pushing the education of their wards faster than necessary.
“For example, a 14 or 15-year-old is not mature enough to undergo the process of registration and university pressure and are vulnerable to exploitation by scammers out there,” it added.
Oloyede also advised states Ministries of Education and relevant stakeholders to always ascertain the students’ true age before admittance into secondary schools.
