Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, has waved the 18 years benchmark for admission into tertiary institutions.

At an ongoing policy meeting organised by the Joint Admission Matriculations Board (JAMB) in Abuja, Mamman had announced that only applicants who were 18 years and above were eligible for admission.

This had sparked a controversy as stakeholders across tertiary institutions in the country, kicked against what the minister said.

Immediately after Mamman made the utterance, the hall erupted in rowdiness.

In a move to calm frayed nerves, the Minister had asked, “Are we together?”, to which the attendees chorused “No!”

It took the intervention of JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, before normalcy was restored.

While reacting to the grumblings from the participants, he insisted that the law required that their children should be in school at 18 years, having attended six years in primary school, three years in Junior Secondary School and three years in senior secondary school.

The Minister noted that the meeting was to ensure that the process of admission for 2024/2024 was fair.

He said the position of the Federal Ministry of Education had not changed from any institution that does admission outside the right process, which is Central Application Process (CAP).

One of the participants who did not want to be named said: “That is not possible, how can a child finish school write WAEC and JAMB and passed and you deny him admission?”

But the minister later accepted the suggestions of the stakeholders that from 16 years and above should be eligible for this year’s admission while the law would apply from next year.

3ple9iner:

Most 16 years are not mature enough to live alone, first semester results is usually comes with attempted suicide or suicide.

GUNITGuy:

Smart Nations like Japan and China are not ....Every child must develop skills am not talking about the rote system of writing examinations here am talking about problem solving skills ....if you're are graduating at 10yrs old and can't apply what you know to solve problems it's of no use ...what can a 10yrs know about soft skills like communication Hunan relations he or she has to develop to full adult in certain situations to cope with the realities of Life

SadiqBabaSani:
18years or nothing, crook people smuggling

Kukutenla:
Lol. Werey people
Who came up with that idea in the first place
APC is filled with dumb and daft demagogues with peas for brain

3ple9iner:

Most 16 years are not mature enough to live alone, first semester results is usually comes with attempted suicide or suicide.

Kukutenla:
Lol. Werey people
Who came up with that idea in the first place
APC is filled with dumb and daft demagogues with peas for brain

Paraman:
Weak minister