JAMB Registrar Bans Parents From UTME Venues

The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB), Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, has ordered all CBT Centres across
the country not to allow parents/guardians into the registration
hall again.

A statement signed by JAMB Spokesman in Ilorin Office, Hassan
Lawal, quoted Oloyede as saying that the decision was made after
inspecting some of the registration centres in Kwara, which were
overcrowded.

”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 was quoted as
saying.

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 matured enough to
undergo the process of registration and university pressure and are
vulnerable to exploitation by scammers out there,” he said.

Oloyede also advised states Ministries of Education and relevant
stakeholders who were saddled with the responsibility of enrollment
of students into secondary schools to always ascertain the
students’ true age before admittance into secondary schools.

The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB), Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, has ordered all CBT Centres across
the country not to allow parents/guardians into the registration
hall again.

A statement signed by JAMB Spokesman in Ilorin Office, Hassan
Lawal, quoted Oloyede as saying that the decision was made after
inspecting some of the registration centres in Kwara, which were
overcrowded.

”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 was quoted as
saying.

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 matured enough to
undergo the process of registration and university pressure and are
vulnerable to exploitation by scammers out there,” he said.

Oloyede also advised states Ministries of Education and relevant
stakeholders who were saddled with the responsibility of enrollment
of students into secondary schools to always ascertain the
students’ true age before admittance into secondary schools.