By Wendy Nweke
Source:lindaikejisblog.com
By Wendy Nweke
Source:lindaikejisblog.com
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has disclosed the extent universities violate the age limit for admission seekers in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Oloyede said that some universities would even admit students as young as 10 years in a desperate attempt to flout the legal age limit of 18. Speaking during the JAMB policy meeting in Abuja, Oloyede cited examples of universities like UNILAG and OAU, with a minimum age requirement of 16 years. He also narrated a case of a candidate who applied for a master’s degree at a university in Germany, only…
According to him, the passage of the Nigerian Peace Corps Bill is not only timely, reassuring and a renewed hope for the Nigerian youth, but also a pointer to the fact that the political elites is still very much conscious of the social challenges confronting the youth and therefore, passionate on proffering solutions to the challenges to same in order to place the youth in the front burner of our national life.