Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the federal government’s directive that admission to tertiary institutions should not be given to candidates less than 18 years old Atiku made his position known in a statement on his Facebook handle, describing President Bola Tinubu’s government as behaving like a lost sailor on high seas.
Recall that Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, had directed that admission to tertiary institutions should not be given to candidates less than 18 years old he noted that the 18-year benchmark is in line with the 6-3-3-4 system of education.
Tahir said: “The minimum age of entry into the university is 18. But we have seen students who are 15, 16 years old going in for the entrance examination Parents should be encouraged not to push their wards too much. Mostly, it is the pressure of parents that is causing this.
We are going to look at this development because the candidates are too young to understand what the whole university education is all about this is the period when children migrate from a controlled to an uncontrolled environment; when they are in charge of their own affairs.
But if they are too young, they won’t be able to manage properly I think that is part of what we are seeing in the universities today.
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