The Senate has assured Nigerians that the 16-year age requirement for applicants seeking admissions to tertiary institutions in the country has not been changed.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, made these assertions while responding to questions from reporters in Abuja at the weekend. “That’s the stage when students migrate from a controlled environment to where they are in charge of their own affairs. So if they are too young, they won’t be able to manage properly. That accounts for some of the problems we are seeing in the universities.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Senator Muntari Dandutse, gave this hint when he led other members of the panel as well as its House of Representatives counterpart on monitoring the UTME in some examination centres as the lawmakers’ oversight function.Dandutse said the Senate would support every effort by the government to streamline admission processes, especially the area of minimum age requirements for entry into tertiary institutions in the country.
“You can bring whatever to the floor in form of a bill. When you bring it, there’s going to be a public hearing. He dismissed insinuations that the Minister of Education had instructed the leadership of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board not to release results of applicants below 18 years.
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