The Senate has confirmed that the minimum age requirement for gaining admission into the tertiary institution remains 16-year.
According to the red chamber, the statements regarding the potential increase of the age limit to 18 years were individual viewpoints not from the upper chamber.
This was clarified by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity Affairs, Adeyemi Adaramodu during an interview with journalists on Wednesday, May 1.
Recall that of recent, the minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, mentioned that the government is thinking about changing the minimum age for gaining admission into the University 18-year-old.
Reacting to this, Adaramodu said, “comment on the minimum age requirement for admission is not a law. So it is just an opinion. It’s not a law. By the time the Senate resumes, whoever wants to bring that one out to make it a law, will now bring it and then the procedures will take place.
“You can bring whatever to the floor in form of a bill. When you bring it, there’s going to be public hearing.
“All the stakeholders will sit down and talk about it. The parents, teachers, legislators, civil society organisations, even foreign organisations.
“We will sit down and we talk. Even if they say that the minimum age should be 30 or 12 we will all discuss it at an open forum. So it’s still a comment which cannot be taken to be the law.”
