There are some merits in this policy, I believe. For example, in my university days, most of my classmates were very intelligent and bright but they were extremely young. I wasn't too old or too young but as a person who has varied life experiences including sponsoring myself for the most part, experience berekete.

Omo na so I use 'GERONTOCRACY' finish them o.

I came out top of the class and now working hard to get to top of the world, so help me God.

If your child is a genius who tends to learn and move faster than other kids, please japa from Lagos oh!

Old and mature people who are fvcking scared of the upcoming.
Una time must end, stvpid generation.

They want slowpokes...

Why not start from the companies, that wants to hire a graduate trainee with Bsc, MSC and must be less than 24yrs old.

I knw even politicians children are already in private universities at 16yrs old..

udemzyudex:
Funny , parents will still find a way to enroll their kids.

How much will they pay to get a new birth certificate?

Would you rather increase or reduce your age in this days of entry level jobs pegged at 25yrs min.

blank:
I foresee a lot of children moving to boarding schools in other states.

Very very true.

Then we will have another problem of young unsupervised children in boarding houses outside the state!

sowilli:
grooming goes with age. No matter how much you force a 7 year old. He might not be able to wash his clothes clean himself. Understanding times in life is very important.

This is not true, I can speak for myself and so many other children I have seen.
Go to villages and see little children doing wonders, I didn't even grow up in the village.
I started washing around that same 7 years, even though I started with smaller clothes and accessories like handkerchief .
I cooked my first meal at 10, even though it wasn't good enough, I improved.
I was groomed to know what to do and how to do it early enough, its not rushing a child, its training.
Children give out what you put into them.
10 is a fair age to start Js1

yers6:
I swear!!!!!!!! This is the best policy in education sector in recent years. Was still discussing this very crucial issue with woman days ago!!!!

Imagine a scenario whereby some new generation 'sophisticated' parents wants their wards in JSS 1 at the age of 7, 8, 9 or 10 and by the time the kid is 16 or 17, would already be done with university! And then by 19 would be done with nysc and then start working. And for those in majority, may not get a good job at that stage and so, life problems start hitting them with so much frustration which they were not fully prepared or grounded to face and then they resort to drugs, prostitution and other dangerous vices just to keep face or survive!

And there is where the challenge starts. Because they are still teenagers with the enormous mantle of grown adult's headaches, they become so directionless in life especially because most Nigerian men don't intend to settle down maritally or even take life very serious till they are 30 years and above. FACT!

Come to clubs on the island and you would weep for the new generations our so called enlightened and cosmopolitan parents are now raising. You would see young girls of 15, 16 from mostly Christian and Religious higher institutions of learning like Covenant, Babcock (the Babcock lady giving head last year in the viral video comes to mind here), Redeemers, Mountain Top, Caleb, Unilag, Leads, Alkhima, Afe Babalola, etc, flooding some of the most exquisite, expensive and classy night clubs on the island, in Owerri, Benin, PH, Abuja every and every weekend!

Or why do you think new exquisite clubs are opening up every other day in Lagos and those cities mentioned? High rate of slay queens everywhere? Or astronomical numbers of mamalawos on IG? Or the fact that weed, codeine, and other 'get high' drugs are recording the craziest sales ever? Its beyond just the fact there are big boys ready to spend but simply because the young and willing underage girls from the higher institutions of learning abounds massively like the sands in the ocean. You see young girls at age 17, 18, 19 among them already having flapping and seriously sagged breasts**.

And you begin to wonder if they are not young girls from so called prestigious and religious universities where security was very tight, where morals were preached and impacted on all fronts, where their parents spend fortunes on them to be in so called best schools?

If you were one brought up in a strict home and responsible background and happen to see things as they are in those cities mentioned, you would weep bitterly.

Don't get get this submission wrong as this is not to generalise that all underaged kids in universities are bad or irresponsible. Far from it. Still a lot are well raised and doing remarkably well even after graduation. Because age at times doesn't translated to maturity. But the danger lies in having kids who are not raised well to fully absorb the crude shocks of life in the majority!

How can you explain so many 16 years olds in 400 level in universities but are already deeply enmeshed in drug abuse? Or the girls that have committed several abortions that they have lost counts? Or those who have been to 100's of exquisite clubs in and out of the country at age 16/17? Thats why you see so many childish comments on social media posts and forum especially on Nairaland in recent years and you begin to wonder, who are these so called young adults with terribly childish mentality? How can you then explain the highest numbers of young boys and girls committing suicides in recent years when we all know Nigerian rarely commit suicide? By time the damage has been seriously done on those boys and girls, you now see their mother's en masse in churches and other religious gatherings seriously praying and fasting for God to touch the soul of those already destroyed children.

We play and pray too much in this country!

How many people do you know that finished university at 16? Most of the time they are between 20-23.

Also one thing you must realise is that those so called Christian schools are nothing but well dressed prisons. There is no difference between how someone in a 'Christian school' thinks and how someone in a federal school thinks, Christian schools just put false marketing in place and enforce harsh rules to sell that image. Plus many students of those schools come from rich homes so it's no surprise that they go to affluent clubs. When someone from a federal school goes to olosho joint in Ajegunle I don't hear people talking about it.

Many of the things you talked about aren't new or unique to a particular age or generation. Fela and Bob Marley were smoking weed before most of us were even born.

Sorry to say but this policy is quite pointless and does not address major issues with education such as public schools lacking basic infrastructure, study materials and relying on corpers rather than trained teachers.

udemzyudex:
Funny , parents will still find a way to enroll their kids.

How much will they pay to get a new birth certificate?

they did for me.

kokaneprodigy:
Are they doing something about age cap for entry level jobs. There are a lot of jobs out there now that are capped at 23, some 24 others 25.

If a child finishes at 18, earliest she can be ready for job is 24,( 4 years Uni +1 year NYSC+ plus cumulative waiting window bye the listed stages) for course of 5 years he would be well over 25 by then.

Note:I haven’t included cumulative years of ASUU strike.

This will greatly put those who will be attending Govt Unis at disadvantage during job hunts.

Maybe that is the plan.

Disqualification of people by natural selection.

whitering:


Your parents thinks they will be faster than your creator.

You are very wrong........... The fault has never been my parents, my school made me write common entrance when I was in pry 5, my dad wasn't around then and my mum didn't see that as a bad idea....... I did very well in the common entrance so what was the point in waiting behind to do pry six when I performed excelleny in common entrance......... I got into secondary school and didn't do bad either....... I was among those topping the class...... Las las to enter university yen yen..........

This policy is retrogresive.

haaaaaaaaa:
So that they will graduate and not have the opportunity to work in multinationals like KPMG, Accenture etc. Wicked human beings

Pls go back to primary school to learn addition. At 12 entry age, they will graduate at 18. At 18 admission into tertiary institution, they will graduate at 22. At 22 NYSC is 1 year. They will be done at 23. KPMG and it's likes have 26 as entry level age. What are in saying in essence?

That 6,3,3,4 system na scam jare.
Nor blame anybody because wen u go find work them tell u 25yrs with 4-7yrs working experience u will understand where some Nigeria parents are coming from.....The country go make 35yrs old man do affidavit to 25yrs

ajebuter:
I love this!

At least, before they are shipped to us for A-Levels, University Foundation classes, lELTS, SAT, TOEFL, Communication Skills and PTDE Edexcel, they would be sane and mature..

That's the kind of education l received..

exactly.gbam!!!!

They won't easily fall into peer pressure of doing crime or drugs or be constituting a nuisance in foreign land and then be bringing disrepute to Nigeria's already damaged image abroad

eni4real:
omo OAU

Not what u think ���

Donald3d:


Cognitive skills can be sharpened . Besides these days there is very little difference between the cognitive skills of a 10 year old and a 12 year old.
10 is very fair for Js1 .

There are 15 year old children that are smarter, more organized than some 20 year olds.

Especially with the way our country is messed up. Two years is a huge loss..
That means the child would graduate at 18 yrs .....Possible hustle for admission for 2 years.... It would take another 4-7 years to graduate depending on the course, 1 year service ....The child would be 30 by the time he is ready for job hunting .... Most companies these days want to employ 25 -27 year olds.

If a country that is more organized with smooth education and admission system proposes this, it would make more sense.
In Nigeria, its very hard to plan your future, except you have rich parents.

10 is a very fair age.
There should be more focus on parenting, I see too many bad parents these days.

@Bold:

Truth.

SIRTee15:


I agree with u on pre world war era produced the greatest inventors and scientist....
The later 20th century innovation was a feed off from the preceding era....

The 21st century may end up becoming the least innovative century in recent era despite technology and scientific advancement....
U just can't point to any disruptive innovation of recent....
It's just repeated attempt to make previous technology better.....

Whether the rush-rush mentality of recent generation is the cause....
The jury is still out on that....

YouTube is not disruptive?
Innovations have to be disruptive to have value or qualify as innovations?
Camera phones are not innovative
Home banking is not innovative
Internet shopping is not innovative?

My cousin bro finished secondary school at 13 years. I laff

THE FIRST ISSUE IS PARENTS CANT WAIT TO GET THEIR KIDS OUT OF THE HOUSE DURING THE DAY SO THEY END UP TAKING
CHILDREN WHO ARE 2 YEARS OLD OR LESS TO SCHOOL. THEY CANT EVEN TALK YET AND THEY WANT TO DUMP THEM WITH TEACHERS!
I HAVE THIS FRIEND WHO WANTS TO TAKE HER 18 MONTH OLD CHILD TO SCHOOL....I WENT TO SCHOOL OUTSIDE NIGERIA AND THEY DONT
ALLOW THAT... ALSO A UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IS NO PLACE FOR A 14 OR 15 YEAR OLD!
WHY IS IT THAT ITS ALWAYS BY FORCE THAT NIGERIANS MUST GET SENSE?
THIS LAW IS GREAT BUT THEY NEED TO START FROM NURSERY AND NOT WAIT UNTIL JSS1. CHILDREN LESS THAN 3 OR 4 SHOULD NOT BE ENROLLED IN NURSERY SCHOOL.

lahizak:
Thats a very good move. If u are vigilant u will observe that most of the people failing in the university are either too young or too old. The ones graduating with the best result are between those age group except in some very small cases. The old ones is understandable but nowadays d people in the uni are just too young. I am a secondary school teacher and I av lot of students in jss 1 that are between the age of 8 and 9 and they are very dull compared to their classmate of age 12 or 13. Nowadays parent tend to rush their children.my younger sister is 15 in ss2 and she sat 4 jamb dis year. She got 181 and if she passed waec, she will be in 100l next year. I had to tell my mum to let her write another jamb next year so dat she can be more matured.

My kid bro is 18, took jamb scored 295 Last year, entered uni this year. His maturity is already helping him. He said his target is to be the best graduating student. He has written three scholarship exams this year, he said he plans to get at least two scholarship ... To stop my parents support. The young man spent 1year in workshop learning how to repair oil well head valve, and other petroleum machines... At 18 he has visited over 7 oil well location across Nigeria.

And later got admission to study petroleum engineering, when I look at him I just smile because the young man is position for greatness already.

But those his class mate who came in at 16yrs can't match his maturity and level of exposure.

This recent parents needs to be reoriented they are messing up this kids real time

yers6:
I swear!!!!!!!! This is the best policy in education sector in recent years. Was still discussing this very crucial issue with woman days ago!!!!

Imagine a scenario whereby some new generation 'sophisticated' parents wants their wards in JSS 1 at the age of 7, 8, 9 or 10 and by the time the kid is 16 or 17, would already be done with university! And then by 19 would be done with nysc and then start working. And for those in majority, may not get a good job at that stage and so, life problems start hitting them with so much frustration which they were not fully prepared or grounded to face and then they resort to drugs, prostitution and other dangerous vices just to keep face or survive!

And there is where the challenge starts. Because they are still teenagers with the enormous mantle of grown adult's headaches, they become so directionless in life especially because most Nigerian men don't intend to settle down maritally or even take life very serious till they are 30 years and above. FACT!

Come to clubs on the island and you would weep for the new generations our so called enlightened and cosmopolitan parents are now raising. You would see young girls of 15, 16 from mostly Christian and Religious higher institutions of learning like Covenant, Babcock (the Babcock lady giving head last year in the viral video comes to mind here), Redeemers, Mountain Top, Caleb, Unilag, Leads, Alkhima, Afe Babalola, etc, flooding some of the most exquisite, expensive and classy night clubs on the island, in Owerri, Benin, PH, Abuja every and every weekend!

Or why do you think new exquisite clubs are opening up every other day in Lagos and those cities mentioned? High rate of slay queens everywhere? Or astronomical numbers of mamalawos on IG? Or the fact that weed, codeine, and other 'get high' drugs are recording the craziest sales ever? Its beyond just the fact there are big boys ready to spend but simply because the young and willing underage girls from the higher institutions of learning abounds massively like the sands in the ocean. You see young girls at age 17, 18, 19 among them already having flapping and seriously sagged breasts**.

And you begin to wonder if they are not young girls from so called prestigious and religious universities where security was very tight, where morals were preached and impacted on all fronts, where their parents spend fortunes on them to be in so called best schools?

If you were one brought up in a strict home and responsible background and happen to see things as they are in those cities mentioned, you would weep bitterly.

Don't get get this submission wrong as this is not to generalise that all underaged kids in universities are bad or irresponsible. Far from it. Still a lot are well raised and doing remarkably well even after graduation. Because age at times doesn't translated to maturity. But the danger lies in having kids who are not raised well to fully absorb the crude shocks of life in the majority!

How can you explain so many 16 years olds in 400 level in universities but are already deeply enmeshed in drug abuse? Or the girls that have committed several abortions that they have lost counts? Or those who have been to 100's of exquisite clubs in and out of the country at age 16/17? Thats why you see so many childish comments on social media posts and forum especially on Nairaland in recent years and you begin to wonder, who are these so called young adults with terribly childish mentality? How can you then explain the highest numbers of young boys and girls committing suicides in recent years when we all know Nigerian rarely commit suicide? By time the damage has been seriously done on those boys and girls, you now see their mother's en masse in churches and other religious gatherings seriously praying and fasting for God to touch the soul of those already destroyed children.

We play and pray too much in this country!

Good n insightful....
1. But don't you think this is basically a resultant effect of bad parenting n not cos of early school entries.
2. How will they get jobs, if they graduate at 30+ with job entry age peg at 24/25

SUPERPACK:
So the 8 year old started nursery 1 in the womb or what? Let him spend the four years any how he wants as punishment for jumping classes massively.

Many parents skip classes to a higher one fr their children esp wen dey ar changing schools......not d best BT as a teacher I tink 10yrs is fyn to b in jss1

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I hope these decisions are research based.

But I know my Nigeria. I doubt it. Why waste our time further. The average Nigerian is already behind in the global scheme of things. He struggles to even catch up after graduation.

Some policy changes I expected them to look into are;
Reducing University programmes to 3 yrs - for 4 yr programmes and 4 yrs for 5 yr programmes.

Increase course variety for secondary school students . The core courses that is. This allows the average student to have a firm foundation in the sciences & arts /socials before he/she decides IN the university.
Making the choice as an SS1 student may be removed from the reality the child experiences years later.

Time should not be wasted. There are those who are very brilliant amongst us. We shouldn't hold them back. They'll solve many of our problems in future.

OSUigboFlatHead:

No!
It must start now .

The child should goan learn tailor, carpenter or Baber first till he/she turns 12

I hear you

0m0nnakoda:

Children have established companies and employed adults.
If the child is in entertainment e.g acting, music etc they are supported
Education should not be different
There are exceptional kids with special abilities e.g computer programming, coding, sports etc what they require is support and guidance
If a child is smart enough to figure out a cure for coronavirus he should be supported.

I don't dispute that.i absolutely agree but let him Go and train for that for at least 4 years before he enters university.let him sharpen his unique skills pre university so by 18 he already has a skill before entering the university

12 is too old.

Ideal age should be 10..any child less than 10 should not be allowed into JSS1. Makes more sense!

TheMohican:
You will still see some Igbo people entering school at 10 years old

Why Igbo?

texazzpete:


If someone is intelligent enough to graduate from University at 18, what's the issue?

Intelligence is not maturity bro. Why rush them into adult hood many of this kids are not prepaid for ... U see a teenager struggling with adult hood life, when the pressure set in ....

Let's say a kid left secondary school at 17. At 21 he is already done with a 4yrs course 22yrs he is done with NYSC.

22yrs in the labour market is still very OK....

@yers6 God bless you you have totally summed it up

When a brilliant kid of age 9 Is capable of entering into jss1..