The Education Minister has succeeded in being made to look daft by the clueless Senate.

16 years is Alright

ignis:
Nice one. If age is not regulated, children will be graduating from university at age of 12 soon.

And what is the problem with graduating from Uni at 12? If the University confirms that they met and satisfied all requirements to graduate from the institution, what problem do you have with that?

hellunfats:
I was 15 when I got in

How did u handle the big bros dem in 300level and 400level chasing jambites upandan. Those niggas can do anything to b*ng a jambite. I got In when I was 16. I got carried away with sch life. I became serious when I saw my results. That 18 is okay. I think younger girls of 15/16 should come from home. I.e if they sch in the town/City their schs are for proper monitoring. Men dey hussle jambites badly. I know wetin I dey talk..

4tomandchi:
Even though I know that this legislation will not affect their children who will graduate abroad in 2 years it’s a good legislation for the sanity of our future.

These kids need a certain level of maturity before been exposed to the many vices of tertiary institutions.

On a daily basis lives are destroyed before our own eyes so this legislation is a welcomed development.

Why not keep the tertiary institutions free of vices rather than having the younger ones suffering for our cowardice and ineptitude.

That 16-18 their head is really sharp and can take anything. I remember memorizing a whole handout when I was in the Polytechnic around that age.


It's the best time to be in school.

COMPAQ:


Those are very, very rare cases and those individuals are at genius level. Stop peddling rare occurrences as the norm.

I entered OSU at 17, graduated at 22 and I have been working for over 20years. My life didn't end because I didn't graduate at 19!!

Where are we rushing too.

So everybody should follow your footstep abi? Because you are our moral compass. I graduated at 18 and have been working for over a decade too and the world didn't shut down because I graduated at 18.

I hope you see how you sound now. Leave your children at home till they are 18 and allow others do as they deem fit. Period!

hellunfats:
I was 15 when I got in

And are you now a professor? Apart from constituting nuisance and disgracing your family on the cyberspace, what else do you do?

MEEVEET:
I finished secondary school at 15 and was considered too old at home ( I moved primary school a few times costing me 2 years)

Most of my relations finished at 13 or 14

There are people abroad who graduate from University at 13,14 15 ... Yes university

Some people get PhD at 19

Putting a cap to this age of admission is wrong for a nation that wants to advance

Go and check admission age of the so called developed nations. Non is less than 15. The people who considered you too old for finishing secondary as an underage really needs mental evaluation

Wisdomkosi:


Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/senate-insists-on-16-years-as-requirement-for-tertiary-institution-admission-in-nigeria/

If you check well, the man must have gotten admission at age 24 and feels bad that age 24 now have masters in Nigeria

The VC of Ebonyi state University, made salient points on two critical issues affecting University education brought about by the JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede.
1. The age limit: He said, rather than age, we should rather look to develop talents. In his words, "if a candidate scores 320 and is vying for admission in his University but is 16years of age, he cannot in his right conscience deny such a talented child admission because government says so. He will go ahead to admit and develop such a talent.

2. The JAMB cutoff mark: He wondered why JAMB approves 140 out of 400 (35%) as acceptable for admission into the universities. Whereas the 35% in WAEC and NECO is F9 not even a pass. The bar is too low.

grandstar:


Yes, where are they rushing to?

Your youth is meant to be enjoyed and savored, and not whizzed through so fast.

My take is, if one finishes too early, their gap years till they strike 18 should be used to learn a trade or trades. One can even master python or other programs.
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These will ensure they are fully prepared for higher education. If there's a worry is that they may flunk out of uni because the skills they learned enable them way too earn way too much that they can't work under anyone.

Absolute trash.

Let every homo sapien live life at his/her own pace.

What is the big deal about university education that a 15 or 16yr old cannot cope with?We talk as if we do not have thousands ,if not millions of people that have successfully passed through university education at entry ages of 15 or 16,over the century .

I entered unilag at 16 and graduated at 20.

What and how are my classmates that entered Unilag at 18 better than me,Just how for God’s sake

Going for skills acquisition is all about interest and not age,same applies to tertiary education.
No body should force anyone to acquire skills or go to university,it should all be about interest and passion and not age.

As a matter of fact ,the younger the brain,the greater the talent .

Too much of band wagon and rubbish talk on social media!

SoNature:


Giving a child of 19 a PhD degree makes no sense. Those people went to school to acquire book knowledge without deep reasoning.

If you doubt me, go back and read the things you were taught when you were in primary school. The way you understand them now can never be the same as the way you understood it then.

People's brains and ability to deeply understand the world and the things around them improve as they get older. Age comes with experiences which allow an adult understand the world better than a child.

Issac Newton finished everything he was known for by 25

Imagine he started university at 18

just4fun:
My argument has always been that how many of our Federal Universities can confidently claim that a 4 year program will be completed as expected without all these unnecessary strikes ?
If you join at 18, expect to complete your program by 24 or 25. if a 5yr program, probably 26.
By the time you finish NYSC u r 28. Then one useless organization will be requiring graduates of 23yrs for employment with Masters. Where does that leave us ?

You made the point I have been looking for.

Which abroad? In Canada kids starts school with kindergarten at 5yrs. Grade 1 is 6yrs while they finish at 18yrs which is grade 12. Afterwhich they proceed to university or trade school. This is strictly followed

MEEVEET:
I finished secondary school at 15 and was considered too old at home ( I moved primary school a few times costing me 2 years)

Most of my relations finished at 13 or 14

There are people abroad who graduate from University at 13,14 15 ... Yes university

Some people get PhD at 19

Putting a cap to this age of admission is wrong for a nation that wants to advance

You are on point my brother. Most Human beings of our time have lost their sense of purpose as regards child upbringing. They think rushing children through school is all there is about raising children. All the people I know who were rushed through school from primary to university are confused, empty and clueless about life. There is something called Lifesense, a certain meditative and insightful worldview (weltanschauung). It is very important that before you push your child into the world, take time to imbibe in them a profound sense and understanding of life. You don't get this by going to the university at 16 and below. Nowadays even 25 years old pupil is still childish. I live close to a campus, I see them babying around in the school. By experience I realised that the older you are the better able you are at understanding some some difficult courses.

Those parents that rush their children through school are just preparing them for the job market and not for life. Most people think that their job, marriage, education, business, etc is life, no, all these are just accessories to life. Beyond all these there is life.
Parents, prepare your wards for Life and not for the job market. When they have a profound sense of life, they will certainly earn a living either by being employed or by being self employed. Starting school at 18 is good but if it is in my hands I will push it to 20. The additional two years will be for acquiring one or two skills for a year and the other year for an intensive meditation and yoga practices for a wholesome development of the body and mind.
There is no point rushing children through life. Rushing them through life means getting them to the finish line quicker and the finish line of life is the grave.

valentineuwakwe
post=129741693:
But why are parents rushing n pushing there kids even at 14years to enter universities?
I think this whole drama started when government fail to checkmate the activities of NAPAS (private schools and there owners) when they stylishly aborted primary 6 in there schools and allow children to jump classes. Some parents will want there children to be in primary 4 and write common entrance examinations all in the name of brilliance or 'my child no book"
In private schools a primary one child will be using and learning primary 2 reader and textbooks etc....does that make sense?
What is the essence of our 6-3-3-4 system if they want to go for 16years? Can such child who should still be under parental care handle the pressures that comes with campus life?
Government should act fast n do what is needed to restore lost glory in the education system.

DMerciful:
Which abroad? In Canada kids starts school with kindergarten at 5yrs. Grade 1 is 6yrs while they finish at 18yrs which is grade 12. Afterwhich they proceed to university or trade school. This is strictly followed

Google youngest graduate in Canada then come back

I'm in Canada and I have 3 kids in elementary and middle school. Infact my kids had to drop 1 class below because they were too young for the class they ought to be.

MEEVEET:

Google youngest graduate in Canada then come back

Doyin2:


Absolute trash.

Let every homo sapien live life at his/her own pace.

What is the big deal about university education that a 15 or 16yr old cannot cope with?We talk as if we do not have thousands ,if not millions of people that have successfully passed through university education at entry ages of 15 or 16,over the century .

I entered unilag at 16 and graduated at 20.

What and how are my classmates that entered Unilag at 18 better than me,Just how for God’s sake

Going for skills acquisition is all about interest and not age,same applies to tertiary education.
No body should force anyone to acquire skills or go to university,it should all be about interest and passion and not age.

As a matter of fact ,the younger the brain,the greater the talent .

Too much of band wagon and rubbish talk on social media!

I never said those who entered can not fare well academically. What I stressed was that one's youth should be savored and enjoyed. The overall development of the child and not just academic is the issue here.

There's a reason in many countries, the law stipulates 18 yrs for higher education.

grandstar:


I never said those who entered can not fare well academically. What I stressed was that one's youth should be savored and enjoyed. The overall development of the child and not just academic is the issue here.

There's a reason in many countries, the law stipulates 18 yrs for higher education.

I had already asked the question .

How has the youth that entered university at 18yrs ,savoured and enjoyed youth ,more than a 16yr entrant?

Nigerian and many other countries law did not stipulate 18yrs.And there is no evidence to proof that stipulating age limit,makes you a better country.

DMerciful:
I'm in Canada and I have 3 kids in elementary and middle school. Infact my kids had to drop 1 class below because they were too young for the class they ought to be.

Do you guys know Google is free?

When someone makes a statement you disagree with, first Google then take stand

You want youngest PhD holder in Canada?

2023Blessed:
And what is the problem with graduating from Uni at 12? If the University confirms that they met and satisfied all requirements to graduate from the institution, what problem do you have with that?

University is not Nursery school.

just4fun:
My argument has always been that how many of our Federal Universities can confidently claim that a 4 year program will be completed as expected without all these unnecessary strikes ?
If you join at 18, expect to complete your program by 24 or 25. if a 5yr program, probably 26.
By the time you finish NYSC u r 28. Then one useless organization will be requiring graduates of 23yrs for employment with Masters. Where does that leave us ?

Valid points, man.

The whole education talk in Nigeria is another topic entirely.

one of my guys that followed the so called 6-3-3-6 system,

said he so ashame of himself, because now he is doing his PHD in one of these oversea university.

all the white students doing their PHDs are all less than 26yrs, but he is above 29yrs.

so please they should leave it at 16yrs

the world is now a global village

Wisdomkosi:


Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/senate-insists-on-16-years-as-requirement-for-tertiary-institution-admission-in-nigeria/

People should keep rushing life and that's how they keep dying fast. Parents keeps rushing their children life, imagine sending your 16 years old daughter to the university at a vulnerable age of being a minor. Boys would easily chyke and deceived her in the name of love. Go to the universitIes and see how these boys lay siege waiting for female freshers (year 1 girls) so they can take emotional and sexual advantages of them because they know that they are too young below adult age because of desperatios of their parents. When I was in the university, UNN to be precise, I was the course rep of my department chemistry and always held the class key to our third year class then. I forgot to lock the classroom after lectures one day like that and immediately rushed there around 8pm to lock the door because I don't want other students to be there for night class. As I entered Carva building ( UNN students would know here) Carva building is where the chemistry lecture room was located, everywhere was quiet that I have to hold firmly to my phone because I don't want to be robbed and I don't have money to afford another phone. I reached my third year classroom then and was happy to still see it closed then I assumed no one was inside and wanted to lock it then I had moaning sounds of people inside. I immediately entered and saw a boy and a girl having sex in a whole academic classroom! I was so furious and started slapping the male student while the female student who was naked was trying to wear her clothes. After that I asked and realized that boy was in second year and the girl in first year respectively. I told both of them to kneel down though the boy tried hesitating but after I used slaps again to reset his head then he finally knelt down. I asked the boy how old he was and he said he was 20 while the girl said she was 16 years. The boy was like she was his girlfriend, I slapped him again and he kept quiet. I called the school security and reported them but that case was swept under carpet because the guy's father was a professor. The father threatened me that I won't graduate, the 16 year old girl I was trying to protect kept saying that the boy was her boyfriend and I should not have interfered. Aftermaths the episode, I kept failing one particular course from my final year and graduated 2 years after. I was puzzled to know what's the correlation between my department and the guy's father who was a professor in social science. One of my lecturer friend later revealed to me that most professors are friends with each other irrespective of their departments and can deal with anyone in a any departments, he ordered that that course should be remarked for me and that how I go a C in it eventually because he stood up to know why a brilliant student like me haven't graduated since. Upon being a first class material in that my third year, I graduated two years after my set with 4.12 G.P. I was bullied and intimidated because I don't know anyone to fight for me. It's well.

[color=#000099][/color][quote author=MEEVEET post=129741536]I finished secondary school at 15 and was considered too old at home ( I moved primary school a few times costing me 2 years)

Most of my relations finished at 13 or 14

There are people abroad who graduate from University at 13,14 15 ... Yes university

Some people get PhD at 19

Don't compare abroad and here! Our mentality differs. A 14 year old person in UK is equivalent to 28 old year person here. At the age 23 their boys are married with children, settled and focus... But here at the age of 34 a most of our guys are still confused about their future.

Better at 16...

UNNGRADUATEEE:
I was bullied and intimidated because I don't know anyone to fight for me. It's well.

Bullied and intimidated because you overstepped your boundary. You slapped and harassed the culprits when you could have been more civil with them by handing them over to the appropriate authority.

ignis:


University is not Nursery school.

SMH

Go to some medical schools today you will find out that 40% of the Doctors graduate between the age of 20 and 22.
You are just deceiving yourself, in my daughters school in federal unity school, 7 of the 10 best students in SS1D are 13 years.
Most kids around me enter medical school @14years and 15years .
Some of you will continue to live in fools paradise.
You are here complaining, but still allow your 10years kids destroying themselves in the internet but interested in attacking people that invest similar time in quality education in mathematics etc.
For your information, my 13year old kid in SS1D is the best in her class and will write GCE this December and Jamb next April and be in medical school @ 14years.
Keep complaining and crying

MEEVEET:
I finished secondary school at 15 and was considered too old at home ( I moved primary school a few times costing me 2 years)

Most of my relations finished at 13 or 14

There are people abroad who graduate from University at 13,14 15 ... Yes university

Some people get PhD at 19

Putting a cap to this age of admission is wrong for a nation that wants to advance

Go to some medical schools today you will find out that 40% of the Doctors graduate between the age of 20 and 22.
You are just deceiving yourself, in my daughters school in federal unity school, 7 of the 10 best students in SS1D are 13 years.
Most kids around me enter medical school @14years and 15years .
Some of you will continue to live in fools paradise.
You are here complaining, but still allow your 10years kids destroying themselves in the internet but interested in attacking people that invest similar time in quality education in mathematics etc.
For your information, my 13year old kid in SS1D is the best in her class and will write GCE this December and Jamb next April and be in medical school @ 14years.
Keep complaining and crying

4tomandchi:
Even though I know that this legislation will not affect their children who will graduate abroad in 2 years it’s a good legislation for the sanity of our future.

These kids need a certain level of maturity before been exposed to the many vices of tertiary institutions.

On a daily basis lives are destroyed before our own eyes so this legislation is a welcomed development.

Go to some medical schools today you will find out that 40% of the Doctors graduate between the age of 20 and 22.
You are just deceiving yourself, in my daughters school in federal unity school, 7 of the 10 best students in SS1D are 13 years.
Most kids around me enter medical school @14years and 15years .
Some of you will continue to live in fools paradise.
You are here complaining, but still allow your 10years kids destroying themselves in the internet but interested in attacking people that invest similar time in quality education in mathematics etc.
For your information, my 13year old kid in SS1D is the best in her class and will write GCE this December and Jamb next April and be in medical school @ 14years.
Keep complaining and crying

TriCee:
I think it's better. Parent's now jump even primary 5 and 6 to go register their kids for waec and jamb.

Allow children to experience normal growth.

Go to some medical schools today you will find out that 40% of the Doctors graduate between the age of 20 and 22.
You are just deceiving yourself, in my daughters school in federal unity school, 7 of the 10 best students in SS1D are 13 years.
Most kids around me enter medical school @14years and 15years .
Some of you will continue to live in fools paradise.
You are here complaining, but still allow your 10years kids destroying themselves in the internet but interested in attacking people that invest similar time in quality education in mathematics etc.
For your information, my 13year old kid in SS1D is the best in her class and will write GCE this December and Jamb next April and be in medical school @ 14years.
Keep complaining and crying

Aliyu333:
University in Nigeria is a whole different world, expecially the Federal Schools.. A child shouldn't just be educationally sound to be thrown into its realm. Some degree of emotional, street smart, psychlogical and independence is important and then the student can further build on all these aspects as they go on to build intelligence as well.

While 16yrs does not guarantee anyone will already have some degree of all those, it is at least better than below 16. I see people comparing Nigeria to the West and saying they enter and graduate much earlier. We all know Nigerian Universities aren't as safe, protected and developed as those universities. Even the mature people self dey see shege, be careful not to send little kids to their ruin. Schools like Convenant and co, are better suited for much younger lads albeit not perfect too.

Go to some medical schools today you will find out that 40% of the Doctors graduate between the age of 20 and 22.
You are just deceiving yourself, in my daughters school in federal unity school, 7 of the 10 best students in SS1D are 13 years.
Most kids around me enter medical school @14years and 15years .
Some of you will continue to live in fools paradise.
You are here complaining, but still allow your 10years kids destroying themselves in the internet but interested in attacking people that invest similar time in quality education in mathematics etc.
For your information, my 13year old kid in SS1D is the best in her class and will write GCE this December and Jamb next April and be in medical school @ 14years.
Keep complaining and crying