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18-year Limit Not For WAEC, NECO Candidtates –FG

by Henry Tyohemba
10 months ago
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Federal government has clarified that there are no age restrictions for taking the National Examinations Council (NECO) and West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

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Contrary to recent reports suggesting a minimum age of 18 years, the government explained that it only restricted the age for sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) and entry into the university to 18 years beginning from 2025.

Minister of State for Education, Dr. Tanko Sununu, stated this in Abuja yesterday while briefing the press on activities to herald the 2024 World Literacy Day with the theme: “Promoting Multilingual Education: Literacy for Mutual Understanding and Peace.”Sununu said; “As regards this matter, we have made ourselves clear in different fora. But the issue keeps recurring here and there. Actually, nobody among the two of us, the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, or the Minister of State, stated anything about the age limit for WAEC, NECO or NABTEB.

“People just picked up some remarks the minister made and misinterpreted the statements to imply that age restriction has been placed for WAEC and NECO examinations. What we have been mentioning in the past was the entry age for university candidates sitting for the UTME. We have made this clear several times, and this is in line with the National Policy on Education.

“The document stated that a child is expected to enter primary school at six years, and he’s expected to spend six years in that school, making it 12 years, three years each in junior and senior secondary schools, making it 18 years. That’s what is contained in the National Policy on Education document.

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“This is directly or otherwise related to the theme of this year’s World Literacy Day. The policy further stated that a child should learn in the language of the immediate environment or mother tongue up till primary three before English language could be introduced in subsequent years. That has facilitated learning at that level because you can easily communicate,” added.

On the Literacy Day, he said the theme was also apt as it adequately re-emphasised the use of a learner’s mother tongue or their home language as the language of instruction.

The Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, Prof. Akpama Iboro, said the commemorative event resonates deeply with the commission’s values and goals.


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