₦airaland Forum

mhmsadyq:
Bitter? Your comments say it all.

Eyah! na only rant for faceless media ur generation sabi.

When time for action reach, we go trash you for ever and ever
just like our fathers did and are still doing to your father.

Same faceless media you are hiding your wrinkled face and dead brain behind? You must be mad, sadistic ancestor.

Get your wrinkled face fixed and face your demented children who are cursed for eternity. Just as you plot on ruining the lives of other people's children, your children's lives will be ruined beyond redemption before your very eyes.

Tokskob2008:
Lol.... they have come again with this rice rubbish, I wonder how this will better the lives of the masses.

This administration is totally clueless and Nigerians won't get anything meaningful from it.

Imagine the insult from this clueless administration.

mhmsadyq:
I believe your curses are the real symptoms of frustration.

Where are your curses when others at 70 are still making decisions that affect your cursed generation including your father that is tired at 70.

If you continue like this you might not get to 70 not to talk of tired like you father while we are active making decisions.

"We are active". Oh the actual Mr Septuagenarian may thunder fire you and your entire cursed generation where not one will hit 60 after you. Even you at 70 no go die better. Chronologically and mentally declined old fool still hustling for Government Money at 70. Your own entire life don spoil. No wonder you are so bitter when you see our thriving youth. Mortuary is near. I hope your useless children are ready to bury your rotten body after your sudden death "in active service" Bitter Ancestor Methuselah. We go flog that your empty fossil head for Court.

mhmsadyq:
Your answer!

“Even basically if you compute the number of years pupils, and learners are supposed to be in school, the number you will end up with is 17 and a half – from early child care to primary school to junior secondary school and then senior secondary school. You will end up with 17 and a half by the time they are ready for admission.

Grandpa Oloyede I see your level of desperation at bringing other people's children down is alarming. Those children of yours will be ruined in all spheres of their useless lives beyond redemption. Your grandchildren and great grandchildren and their children too.

vanbonattel:
"HAS PROPOSED TO"

But the topic reads

Fg to remove tax on food items

Propaganda and lies government

All na wash. 2027 is around the corner.

mhmsadyq:

Idiot wants to live past 70!

He is a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. at 70 with Fura De Nunu.

Who was/is your father at 70 with his Ai intelligence?

Idiot!

At 70 my father had retired and relaxing at home not hustling for Government Positions.

He is chronologically aged, should be home drinking his Fura De nunu and bathing his great-grandchildren.

Homeless, orphaned and vulnerable Children sleep on the streets and are not in school. Why is Grandpa Minister not concerned about the IMMATURITY and EDUCATION of those UNDERAGED children on the streets? Give me an answer you stupid retard.

mhmsadyq:
hmmmmmm!
Replying you won't make me any better than you.

I only hope you will be rotting in your grave at 70 or before, so you don't become a nuisance to your children and the society.

Amem!

You can only hope, hopeless fool.

I will be alive and kicking past 70l. Now the mention of age 70 is hurting you so bad but your Fura De Nunu Minister can discriminate on the ages of young children. That's okay by you. May God ruin you and your miserable children and grandchildren wherever they are.

mhmsadyq:
The government is only implementing what the law says.

It is the implementation of the 6 - 3 - 3 - 4 system.
Age matters

You are so bitter that you had to go off sleep and write a dumb epistle to end up making zero sense. If your children are not affected and you are this desperately.evil, then May God punish you perpetually.

mhmsadyq:
*The 18-year-old Age Limit for School Certificate*

By Farooq A. Kperogi

The directive by education minister Professor Tahir Mamman to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council to not register candidates who are below 18 for next year’s school certificate examinations *is generating knee-jerk resistance from people who are obviously nescient of the psychology and philosophy behind age benchmarks in education.*

In most countries of the world, children don’t start primary school until they are 6, and young adults don’t start university until they are 18. That used to be true in Nigeria, too—until parents chose to skirt the law, upend time-tested tradition, and commit mass child abuse in the name of fast-tracking the education their children.

In fact, contrary to what the Nigerian news media has been reporting, Professor Mamman has not created a new law; he is only implementing the existing law. He hasn’t “banned” under-18 students from taking school certificate exams; he has merely chosen to enforce an extant law, which has been serially violated by overeager parents who want their children to get ahead by any means.

The 1982 education policy, also called the 6:3:3:4 system, requires that children should be at least 5 years old to start pre-primary school and at least 6 years old to start primary school. If a 6-year-old spends 6 years in primary school, 3 years in junior secondary school, and another 3 years in secondary school, they would be 18 by the time they graduate from secondary school.

This is the global standard. In the United States, students apply to enter universities between the ages of 18 and 19 (because if you don’t turn 6 in September of the year you want to start First Grade, you have to wait until next year). In Finland, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, South Africa, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, etc. it is 18.

The age benchmark isn’t arbitrary. It is based on time-honored insights from developmental psychology and educational research, which examined the cognitive, social, and emotional developments of children.

For example, Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development tell us that around age 6, children transition from what is called the preoperational stage to the concrete operational stage, at which point they begin to develop logical thinking, which is essential for learning the structured curriculum of primary school education, such as reading, writing, and mathematics.

Research also shows that children develop the social skills needed to interact with peers and teachers in a school environment and the attention span necessary to learn, absorb information, and stay engaged at 6, and that children who start school too early struggle with these skills, which can lead to long-term challenges in academic and social areas.

*That was why the late Professor Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa was famous for saying any education of children before the age of 5 is a waste of time and even child abuse.* From ages 1 through 5, children should be allowed to be children: sleep, play, laugh, and grow. Of course, I recognize that because most mothers now work, enrolling children in schools earlier than is ideal is a necessity. But the busy schedule of parents is no excuse to buck science, ignore the requirements of a well-integrated childhood, and contribute to the mass production of maladjusted adults.

Similarly, research in developmental psychology shows that by age 18, most teenagers have reached a level of emotional and social maturity that enables them to live independently, make decisions, and handle the challenges of university life.

Neuroscientific research also shows that the brain continues to develop well into the early twenties, particularly the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for decision-making, impulse control, and planning. By age 18, the brain has typically matured enough to handle the complex cognitive demands of higher education.

Plus, in many countries, including in Nigeria, 18 is the age of legal adulthood, which aligns with the transition to university. This legal framework supports the idea that students are ready to take on the responsibilities associated with higher education, such as managing their own time, finances, and education.

Of course, as with everything, there are always exceptions. Precocious children can and do skip grades and start university earlier than 18 even in the United States and elsewhere. There are exceptionally gifted children who graduate from university as early as 11. But such students undergo rigorous tests to determine that they have intelligence that is far ahead of normal developmental schedules. They are also few and far between.

That’s not the situation in Nigeria. Just like our bad national habit of always wanting to jump the queue—what Americans call cut in line—Nigerian parents have, over the years, developed impatience for the normal development schedules of their children and want them to get ahead against the evidence of science, common sense, and even the law of the land.

It is not because their children are exceptional. In fact, they are often mediocre. *For example, my brother’s son, who is only 14 years old and with average intelligence, registered to take his WAEC exam this year. I told my brother that was inexcusable child abuse.*

Nigeria has a bad reputation across the world for sending underage children not just to domestic universities but also to foreign universities. People who work at the International Student and Scholar Services at the university where I am a professor have asked me multiple times why only Nigeria sends underage students here.

The consensus is that such students often lack maturity, have difficulty engaging in adult conversations, and struggle to fit in and get the best of the opportunities they have.

Several Nigerians who teach at other U.S. universities share the same stories. As I pointed out earlier, here in the United States, like in most other countries of the world, students don’t begin their undergraduate education until they are 18, which also happens to be the age of consent. A student who is under 18, by law, can’t attend several extra-curricular activities undergraduates typically take part in.

They need waivers signed by their parents to participate in certain activities, but since their parents are often in Nigeria, they pose logistical nightmares for universities.

For example, in the United States, by law, you can’t sign a lease agreement (to rent an apartment) if you are not at least 18 years old. Many underage Nigerian undergraduates at my school require an adult to co-sign for them. Since their parents are in Nigeria, the burden often falls on Nigerian professors and staff, who are understandably reluctant to co-sign leases of underage strangers who could break their agreements and put us in legal jeopardy.

Dating is also a treacherous legal minefield for the American classmates of underage Nigerian undergraduates in American universities. Having intimate relationship with anyone who is under 18 is statutory rape, even if it is consensual. I am aware of the story of a 17-year-old second-year Nigerian undergraduate girl who had a disagreement with her boyfriend who was from another African country.

Neighbors called the police to intervene. When the police asked for their ID cards, they discovered that the Nigerian girl was underaged. It led to the imprisonment—and later deportation— of the man for statutory rape even when their relationship was consensual. Stories like this are not unique.

Unless someone is exceptionally gifted, which should be proved conclusively with special tests, they should not start university earlier than 18. Fortunately, that is already the law, which is informed by the consensus of research findings in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social research. Professor Mamman has only signaled his readiness to apply the law. He has my full support.

I read that the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) said they would sue the federal government for indicating readiness to implement a law that has been in the books for more than 40 years. Good luck with that!

https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2024/08/the-18-year-old-age-limit-for-school.html?m=1

A guideline is not law. Stupid write up. Why is the Minister not living in a cave and without technology? Don't you think a 40 year old directive is too old to work in this AI era? The same Ministry approved 10 years as Entry age into Secondary Schools. If a child is turning 16 in SS3, how have they gone outside of the directive? You lack intelligence and you are an obvious sadist too. I hope Karma hits your children wherever they are and your grandchildren too. Delete this dumb post. You are not making sense. Your Professor is aged chronologically and incapable of critical reasoning or being a Minister. He should go and drink his Fura De Nunu.and take a nap. He is 70.

IjeBos:
Better to wash it this way than at a funeral.

NL is not a Medical Advisory Board though.

Bluntemperor:
In your house or yard?
You are part of the troubles with Nigeria.
Emotions don't win Case in the Courts,Facts do!

You are part of the ass lickers benefiting from the disgusting corruption.

Take him to a Mental Health Institution and stop washing your dirty linen in public.

Charmingrascal:
Lol

Jagaban is working but the pressure is much.
We have many saboteurs in Nigeria and many people don't really want Nigeria to work.
I know that step by step we will get it right.

How is he working? A bag of rice is still 85k and a Dollar #2000.

CoronaVirusPro:
I am sure the dunce is from a village without electricity, healthcare or vocational center. But wack hommie chose to fund the lifestyle of an alleged pastor.

Rubbish!

Poor man ranting. Leave the kid alone. You seem.to be riled up anytime you see a thriving youth. They are not the cause of your misery.

mhmsadyq:
The government is only implementing what the law says.

It is the implementation of the 6 - 3 - 3 - 4 system.
Age matters

What law? Can you quote where you got the Law from? If CHRONOLOGICAL age matters then the 70 year old Minister should be retired and home sleeping.. Age does not connote maturity. The same Ministry sets 10 years as minimum entry age for Secondary Schools. So they can't blame anyone but themselves.

samomoli:
APC always with retrogressive policies.. PMB then wanted to bring back grazing route... after him Baba emilokan brought back colonial written national anthem....now our education is the next... instead of finding solutions to ASU strikes ,equip our universities to be fabricating machines and equipments using the best mind and catching them young, they are trying to people graduate at 35 to 40 years under ASU strikes

They want to increase the unemployment rate.

Nbote:
Don't waste your time, these current crops of rulers are daft and have no idea what they are doing

They may be daft but we are not. Our children's future is important to us. Some will write the Examinations pass and still not gain admission because of lack of connections. So what is he talking about?

If he says they are too young. The Minister himself is too old to be in that office. He should be retired and resting at 70 years and leave the young brilliant children to thrive. The approved age of Secondary School is 10 years. So a child going on 16 years has followed the Ministry's directive. How can the Minister now think he can act like a dictator in a democracy? What measures has he put in place to ensure the policy is effective? Is he changing it to 6-3-5-8? How is he also following the 6-3-3-4 policy when Millions of students will be left hanging. They will finish with their Curriculum and not be tested immediately afterwards. He is not fit to be a Minister. A Minister Of Education that appears to be against Education. I think old age is affecting his mental health. He should take a bow. At 70 years old he should be retired. His chronological age is affecting his reasoning.

Na den dem give Motivational Speech pass on how to get rich quick.

CoronaVirusPro:
Let’s imagine I am dull, I still passed through the system and diligently earned everything I got. I graduated with a 2:1 and happen to have worked with 4 multinational companies in 3 different continents. If that’s the definition of dullness, then I am dull.

Pro long jumpers like you are just angry I am spelling it out clear. Let the kids breathe and have fun. Stop pushing them to where they not even comfortable with, but have no say.

Delulu. Blah, blah, blah balablu liar. Wetin u come gain, 45 year old fresh graduate.

CoronaVirusPro:
Call a spade a spade! If you can pay your way through, you will finish school faster!

Why are you trying hard to deny the obvious. Long jumps has been normalized and not even a big deal! Why are you acting like you don’t know the norm?

Oh! You reside in Australia?

Long jump is all you keep howling like a dog with mental issues. I can be 40 and still pay my way through. Examination malpractice is not age restrictive. You sound stupid. The FG approves 10 years minimum as Secondary School Entry Age, so if a child will be 16 in SS3, what have they done wrong?

Universities abroad take our children in from here at 16 because they know they are mentally and emotionally capable. These children do exceptionally well. Universities in Nigeria set entry age at 16 because they know they are mentally and emotionally ready The Minister himself finished school at 30 so he is desperate to foist his frustration of being a dull brain on our thriving youth. So quit the bark and focus on improving the learning capacity of your dull children.

CoronaVirusPro:
18 is a valid age. It will curb all the long jumps. The child is fully matured to make and take decisions.

Just attend the next common entrance examination and go see what happens there! All those parents are on Nairaland telling you 18 yrs is too much.

Y’all acting like you don’t know what plays out in the country now. It plays in Every school. You can pay the school and your child will take common entrance from primary 4. Everything is money now!

It’s like a competition between families. They keep spending high to facilitate long jumps, and they will always tell you their child is brilliant.

I doubt if we still have full students in the country, probably the kids of poor people.

18 years is indeed too much because some of them are going to take the exams multiple times before making their papers. ASUU is going to go on strike multiple times and some are going to take LENGTHY courses such as Medicine and Law which will run for several years and by the time they are done, they won't be able to get gainful employment because of their ages. It's a retrogressive policy. The Minister should be fired. He does not mean well for our Education System.

Children are intellectually stimulated and have the capacity to learn and comprehend. The World is evolving and you can't expect maintenance of status quo when it comes to learning.

If I enrolled my child at 10 in Secondary School according to FG"s directive and my child is going to be 16 in SS3 how
have i erred? Fresh out of the curriculum is the best time to write these Examinations not after waiting for 2 years. The Minister himself finished school at 30. He must be a very slow learner himself so is he attempting to cast his misfortune of having a low mental capacity on these thriving children?How can a Minister of Education be more interested in having more children out of school than in school? That's absurd and shady.

He should focus more on the millions of children on the streets in the North who are not in school and the infrastructural decay where children sit on the floor in classrooms. He is Minister of Education not Minster Of UNIVERSITY.

CoronaVirusPro:
Team long jump!

Everyone is now has btikkiant kids and no more dull students.

Parents be buying their way through for kids.

Telling me best results come from primary 5 but fail to mention the bribery and corruption that aided such results.

35 year olds seeking admission can cheat and buy their ways through too. It's not about the age, dumb fool. If FG approves 16 years as unrestricted Employment age..10 years for Secondary School admittance. You must be daft to think it's right for the same FG to state that 16 years is too young to be in University, a controlled environment. Stop attacking people with your stupidity.

Difrent:


O Jo were bi ina

Omo ale afofungbemu

Akuri. Dead brain.

Difrent:


Oti Jo were

Afofungbemu

Didinrin. You whose life and that of your dumb children is on retrogress. You now want to stain everybody's white with your failure. God punish you.

kevinexit:
Till they kingdom come. You cannot amount to anything. You are a product of rape sex which everybody knows. They know what your father did.
That's what is affecting you now. A cursed child.

LoL. Werey. You are wailing already. Save your tears till we get judgement in Court. Dumbasses everywhere. Little wonder you hate our intelligent youth this much. May God save our Nations youth from evil predator hawks like you. Oloribu.

kevinexit:
Ask that's stupid product of rape sex.

He doesn't even know the number of yrs a child spends in primary school before transiting to secondary school.

These days we have pre-nursery
Kg1-3
Primary 1-5 & 6 in Government schools

So how old was the child when he started primary school

Failed ogre. Son of a hoe. Secondary Entry Age Requirement under the same Ministry Of Education's directive is 10. 10+6 is 16. So how have the children erred? Don't be daft. We will meet them in Court.

kevinexit:
You are just a product of a bad and useless parent.
By now you would have been vomiting blood from your mouth.

You are a sore loser. I am certain your mother got pregnant at 15 and had you with multiple failures. That's why you are such a pained ass ogre targeting our youth. The thunder wey go fire you dey do press up. We will fight your Gworo intellectually unsound Minister to the tooth. It is you and your useless olodo children that will vomit blood from the.mouth.

ayoolataiwo:
The balabulu himself,,

Bulaba

President "AJALA". When will you fix Nigeria when you keep globe trotting?

CoronaVirusPro:
6-3-3-4=16 years

How did your child make it to write WAEC at 16?

Did he start primary 1 at 1 year old?

You exposing what you did, and don’t come here to tell me your child is brilliant and got double promotion twice.

The reason why the country is churning out half baked graduates. They have skipped major curriculums in the name of long jumps.

Why are you adding the last (+4). Focus only on 6+3+3. Don't add the +4 yet. That's the University Period so you can't add that. They are yet to commence University Education. See why we say some of you are as daft as the" Gworo" Minister to even comprehend?

Entry Age Requirement into Secondary Schools is 10 under the same Ministry Of Education. 10+6= 16. So divert you dumb question to the Ministry.

The change should start from Elementary not SS3. Students adhered to the 10 years age requirement, so the Minister erred. We need to question his own credentials judging by his obvious lack of mental alertness despite his acclaimed educational status. Not only the underaged engage in Examination Malpractice even 35 year olds seeking admission can engage in same. So it's not about the age. You don't build from the roof top. You start at the foundation. Let them start from Elementary School henceforth not University level. Dumbasses.

olatade:
What about the Petroleum Ministry? Hope the president will remember to reshuffle the 'minister' too?

And Education. These old men should be sleeping on the High BP meds and allow our children to thrive. Put a peg on their ages. They are too old.