Stakeholders who are currently participating at the 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting erupted in disapproval as the Minister of Education, Prof Mamman Tahir, announced that candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions must be 18 and above.
According to the minister, anyone discontented can approach the National Assembly for an amendment. Mamman had previously condemned a situation where students find themselves in higher institutions of learning, but fall prey to negative vices because of their premature stage.
Immediately after the Minister made the announcement the crowd erupted in chorus disapproval “no, no, no” but Tahir insisted that it is already a policy which the government has keyed into because it is the expectation that candidates are much more mature at 18 years old.
The JAMB policy meeting is an annual event where stakeholders from the various tertiary institutions in the country sit to decide on appropriate cut-off marks for admissions in the current academic year.
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