BREAKING: FG Reverses Ban On Under 18 WAEC And NECO Age Limits

Federal government just backtracked over age limit to writing WAEC and NECO.

 

The Genius Media Nigeria reports that The Federal Government has said there was no age restrictions for taking the National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC).

 

Minister of State for Education, Dr. Tanko Sununu who made this known on Friday in Abuja while briefing journalists on activities to herald the 2024 World Literacy Day, said the reports making the rounds in the age restrictions were misrepresentations of their earlier pronouncements.

 

Sununu explained that it only restricted the age for sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and entry into the university to 18 years beginning from 2025.

 

However, Newsmen recalls that the minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman who gave reasons for the age restriction for WASSCE and NECO, had said the new policy on age restrictions would commence October this year.

 

Sununu said; “As regards this matter, we have made ourselves clear in different fora. But the issue kept recurring here and there. Actually, nobody among the two of us, the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, nor the Minister of State, stated anything about the age limit for WAEC, NECO or NABTEB.

 

“People just pick up some remarks the Minister made, 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.”