ON October 10, JAMB’s CEO, Professor Is-haq Oloyede clocked 70. Six days later, he announced what would seem an extraordinary birthday gifting to under-16 university admission seekers, in a dramatic but uncharacteristic shift from his earlier hardline posture on the minimum entry age into universities in Nigeria. If he was a vote-begging, attention-seeking average Nigerian politician or administrator, adept at converting {the word is a bit scary now with this CNG bubble, burst and blast everywhere} every opportunity to a necessity for self-promotion and aggrandizement, the unexpected “amnesty” would have coincided with the birthday anniversary or the 2025 deadline, deliberately lined to fall on October 10, then feign ignorance of the ‘coincidence” if asked. It is a form of deification, while pretending to not want the god status. Even those who are tarnishing the tomorrow of the youths still want immortality and now that they are certain they have lost the…