The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn its newly announced ban on admitting candidates under 18 years old after facing strong protests from stakeholders.
During a rowdy session at the 2024 Policy Meeting on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions, the Vice-Chancellor of Elizade University highlighted that many students aged 16 had already written the JAMB exams before the new regulation was announced.
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After listening to the concerns, JAMB officials agreed to rescind the ban, stating that the new minimum admission age requirement will now come into effect next year.
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This isn’t going to work out! If the government wants students to start going to the university at the age of eighteen, they should start with placing a ban on younger children going to school at an extremely early age. That’s because most people graduating from secondary school are around the ages of 16 and 17. If these children are made to stay at home until they are 18, they may be idle, waste their time, and bring nothing to our society. So in my opinion, the school system is better this way.