{"id":39460,"date":"2024-07-18T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T10:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=39460"},"modified":"2024-07-18T10:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T10:44:59","slug":"breaking-education-minister-sets-18-as-minimum-age-for-2024-admissions-faces-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/18\/breaking-education-minister-sets-18-as-minimum-age-for-2024-admissions-faces-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Education Minister Sets 18 as Minimum Age for 2024 Admissions, Faces Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting, Minister of Education Prof. Mamman Tahir announced a new policy requiring candidates seeking admission into higher institutions to be at least 18 years old. This directive was met with immediate and loud opposition from the stakeholders present.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the protests, Prof. Tahir stood firm on the decision, stating that the policy aims to ensure that students entering higher education are more mature. He added that anyone dissatisfied with the policy could approach the National Assembly for an amendment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The annual JAMB policy meeting is a critical event where stakeholders from various tertiary institutions determine the cut-off marks for admissions for the upcoming academic year. Prof. Tahir has previously expressed concerns about younger students falling victim to negative influences due to their immaturity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further details on the policy and its implications are expected to be provided later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting, Minister of Education Prof. Mamman Tahir announced a new policy requiring candidates seeking admission into higher institutions to be at least 18 years old. This directive was met with immediate and loud opposition from the stakeholders present. &nbsp; Despite the protests, Prof. Tahir stood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39477,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39460\/revisions\/39477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}