The 18-year requirement for getting into tertiary schools in the country has been done away with by Dr. Tunji Alausa, who is now the Minister of Education.
This is because he gave hints that his government might look at the country’s education policy.
But the minister said that the federal government’s choice to throw out over 22,700 degree certificates that Nigerians got from “fake” universities in Togo and Benin Republic, which are close by, would not be changed.
Alausa spoke at his first press conference as a minister on Wednesday. The meeting is still going on in Abuja.
In July, the Federal Government told the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) that candidates for tertiary schools could only be 18 years old.
In a speech at the 2024 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria, Prof. Tahir Mamman, who was Minister of Education at the time, made the policy public.
He said that information he had access to showed that letting underage people apply is very bad for both the university and the education system.
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