{
  "id": 16015190,
  "title": "UTME: 108 underage candidates meet FG’s admission criteria",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/utme-108-underage-candidates-meet-fgs-admission-criteria",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T05:42:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Trust",
    "slug": "daily-trust",
    "url": "https://dailytrust.com/utme-108-underage-candidates-meet-fgs-admission-criteria/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Federal Government said only 108 out of approximately 39,000 underage candidates who sat the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have met the requirements for possible admission into tertiary institutions. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja while receiving the two highest-scoring UTME candidates and six outstanding underage […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}