The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday, reversed the decision to benchmark the admission age for tertiary institutions at 18 years.
Tunji Alausa, the newly appointed Minister of Education, announced the decision during his maiden press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.
The minister, also used the event to unveil his blueprint and the highlight is the decision to reverse the policy on the 18-year age limit for admission into tertiary institutions.
Channels Television quoted the minister as saying: “We will work with JAMB and our universities to ensure that people that are matriculating into our universities will arrive at 16 years.
“So, we will not be going with the 18 years; we will go back to what we have before which is 16 years.”