Atiku Abubakar, 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has criticized the Federal Government policy which pegged age limits for entry to tertiary institutions. Recall that the Federal Government he announced that candidates must be 18 years old before they are admitted into tertiary institutions.
Education Minister Tahir Mamman said that the West African Examinations Council, WAEC , and the National Examinations Council, NECO , has been instructed not to allow underage children to write their examinations. Reacting, Atiku on his X said the policy belongs to the Stone ages. According to him, the recent policy is an absurdity and a disincentive to scholarship. He added that it is embarrassing that the FG said it had no plan to cater for specially gifted pupils.
Otherwise, how is such anti-scholarship regulation the next logical step in the myriad of issues besetting our educational system? “To be clear, the Nigerian constitution puts education in the concurrent list of schedules, in which the sub-national government enjoys more roles above the federal government. “Therefore, it is extra-constitutional for the federal government to legislate on education in a manner similar to a decree.
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