₦airaland Forum

“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."

HBB1:
Maybe people around you are just plain daft!

The average Nigerian child will grt into Uni at 16/17 and will do very well.


My classmates were in this age range and most had no problems.

Then there were those who were 15.
They thrived to.

So oga, speak for yourself!

Everlastingson:
This is simply a ploy by the Muslim North to draw the South back, since majority of their people never go to school. They give their daughters aged below 15 in marriage but require Nigerians to wait till 18 before writing WAEC and JAMB. They want to discourage our children from pursuing education. This is an evil and Satanic agenda and must be resisted. If this evil decision stands the consequences are hydraheaded. This will cause millions teens in the South who graduate from secondary school before 18 to roam the streets for years and you know the implications of that.
Why APC is so devilish is beyond me. Go to other countries and see youths who graduate from University at 17-18years.Here evil APC is saying Nigerians should only write WAEC at 18. Knowing fully well that many won't make it in one sitting. So potentially many will enter the University at 20 and above and graduate at 30. It's only in a Tinubu Presidency that you hear this sort of wickedness being the focus of a government. Even Buhari wasn't as evil.

SmartyPants:
I don't know if you don't realize this, but I'm really not dragging any point with you. If you notice, my post was directed to a more reasonable person (I don't debate with just anyone on here). So on that note, I've taken note that you believe 15/16 is ripe for uni. Good for you sir, and bye.

RandomFellow:
In this age where maturity occurs early, we are supposed to be moving with the tides.

This very move is retrogressive, and do not portray best practices.

16 years is perfect for WAEC; but 18? Nah... That's too late!

Marriageable age should also be 18, if they want this policy to stand!!!

CyrusVI:


That actually good. Considering the fact that Mental maturity is needed to excel in some top courses in the Uni

I know there are exceptional cases whereby a 17year old student can top his class in the Uni, but exceptions dont make the rules



If you do not understand the relationship between age-dependent higher cognitive reasoning and Academic excellence, then I wont be surprised to see u attack this good development

BeeBeeOoh:
https://punchng.com/fg-to-enforce-18-year-age-limits-for-waec-neco-exams/#google_vignette

HBB1:
Olodo!

You want to ruin other lives because you are slow?

ezebunafo:
So what now happens if a child passed out of basic 5 by age 16,will he/she stays home till he is 18?

SoliBayNG:
I finished high school at 16. So these folks are trying to tell me that I woulda waited for 2 years? Americans are celebrating 14 year olds having PHDs, we are stifling growth. Wait until it's their kids. They will find a way around it.

If they were busy doing their jobs properly, they won't have time for witchcraft laced policies such as these

BlueRayDick:
When they gain admission 18, use 5 years in University due to strike and graduate 23; wait for NYSC list to come out for close to a year and then finish NYSC 25 that's where problem will now start.

They may look for jobs for over a year and by then companies will start requesting for them to be not more than 25 years for a graduate trainee role(By that time they are already past 26 years).

The policy is a senseless one in view of how complex things are in the Nigerian labour market

BeeBeeOoh:
https://punchng.com/fg-to-enforce-18-year-age-limits-for-waec-neco-exams/#google_vignette

Gboom:
This policy is just to hinder the progress of these young lads.
I finished sec sch at 18 got admission at 21 finished at 25 after NYSC, I became 27 looking for job and employers required 25 minimum age,
What can I do

Throwback:
This was the standard we knew growing up in Nigeria of the 80s and 90s, with the exception of those who were 16yrs because they skipped primary 6 to enter secondary school from primary 5.

So I don't understand where this age 18 matter is coming from.

If I complete my secondary school at age 17 like I actually did, am I not supposed to be in the university by the September of that same year and age?

Still, I think the minimum age should be 16yrs, to weed out those who abuse age limitations from the early classes.

A lower limit of 18yrs is an anomaly.



What are they doing in that class at that age?

It is such wanton and mindless abuse by parents and schools that has led to such wake up call from the policy makers.