{"id":443,"date":"2024-07-18T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=443"},"modified":"2024-07-18T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:18:19","slug":"fg-bars-jamb-from-granting-admission-to-under-18-candidates-as-education-stakeholders-reject-fgs-18-yrs-admission-age-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/fg-bars-jamb-from-granting-admission-to-under-18-candidates-as-education-stakeholders-reject-fgs-18-yrs-admission-age-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"FG bars JAMB from granting admission to under 18 candidates …….As Education stakeholders reject FG’s 18-yrs Admission age limit\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Federal Government has stated that only candidates that are up to 18 years will gain admission in the 2024\/2025 academic year.<\/div>\n
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This even as Education stakeholders have vehemently rejected the new 18 years age limit for students seeking admission into 2024\/2025 Universities and other tertiary\u00a0institutions.<\/div>\n
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The Minster of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman stated this in his welcome address during 2024 Policy meeting on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions\/NELFUND Half Hour Briefing on Thursday.<\/div>\n
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Mamman whose declaration met with loud murmuring by the audience, urged anyone who was dissatisfied with the decision which he said is within the law, to go to the National Assembly and ask for amendment of the law.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIf you want the child to start from four, you can go back to the National Assembly and amend it,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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Consequently, there was a rowdy session at the 2024 Joint Admissions Matriculation Board\u2019s (JAMB) policy meeting on education in Abuja as stakeholders vehemently opposed the new minimum admission age of 18 years announced by the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman.<\/div>\n
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The minister\u2019s declaration was met with instant resistance from the packed hall of stakeholders representing tertiary institutions nationwide, forcing him to pause his address.<\/div>\n
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The session turned rowdy, with the minister asking, \u201cAre we together?\u201d only to be met with a resounding \u201cNo!\u201d from the crowd.<\/div>\n
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Undisturbed, the minister continued his explanation for the new benchmark, but the uproar persisted.<\/div>\n
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It took the intervention of JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, to restore order with his plea, \u201cPlease attention please!\u201d<\/div>\n
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The annual policy meeting is held to authorise the commencement of admission into tertiary institutions in the country and adopt certain admission benchmarks.<\/div>\n
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The Minister of Education Prof . Mamman\u00a0 had earlier at the event announced that FG has directed JAMB from granting admission to under 18 candidates in the 2024\/2025\u00a0 session.<\/div>\n
The Minister also hinted at the occasion that fresh curriculum reforms\u00a0 for\u00a0 Secondary Education will soon be released by the Nigerian\u00a0 government .<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Our Reporter The Federal Government has stated that only candidates that are up to 18 years will gain admission in the 2024\/2025 academic year. This even as Education stakeholders have vehemently rejected the new 18 years age limit for students seeking admission into 2024\/2025 Universities and other tertiary\u00a0institutions. The Minster of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[278,279,233,262,280],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-admission","tag-age-limit","tag-candidates","tag-jamb","tag-stakeholders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}