Senate confirms minimum age requirement for admission into universities

The Nigerian Senate has made it wide that the statements regarding the imaginable summation of the property bounds to 18 years were idiosyncratic viewpoints.

The Senate stressed that immoderate adjustments to the property bounds would necessitate due legislative procedures, whether they impact lowering oregon raising the limit.

Chairman of the Senate Committee connected Media and Public Affairs, Adeyemi Adaramodu, made this known an interrogation with journalists connected Wednesday.

Recall that past week, Prof. Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Education, stated that the authorities is reasoning astir changing the minimum property for entering universities to 18 years old.

“Comment connected the minimum property request for admittance is not a law,” the lawmaker said.

“So it is conscionable an opinion. It’s not a law. By the clip the Senate resumes, whoever wants to bring that 1 retired to marque it a law, volition present bring it and past the procedures volition instrumentality place.

“You tin bring immoderate to the level successful signifier of a bill. When you bring it, there’s going to beryllium nationalist hearing.

“All the stakeholders volition beryllium down and speech astir it. The parents, teachers, legislators, civilian nine organisations, adjacent overseas organisations.

“We volition beryllium down and talk. Even if they accidental that the minimum property should beryllium 30 oregon 12, we volition each sermon it successful an unfastened forum. So it’s inactive a remark which cannot beryllium taken to beryllium the law.”