{"id":76694,"date":"2025-10-15T05:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76694"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:54:49","slug":"fg-removes-mathematics-requirement-for-arts-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/15\/fg-removes-mathematics-requirement-for-arts-students\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Removes Mathematics Requirement for Arts Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Education has announced that Mathematics will no longer be compulsory for students in the Arts and Humanities seeking admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The reform, part of the new National Guidelines for Entry Requirements into Tertiary Institutions, aims to expand access to higher education and eliminate unnecessary barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new rule, Mathematics remains mandatory only for Science, Technology, and Social Science courses, while English Language remains compulsory for all disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, said the move would raise annual admission capacity from 700,000 to over one million students, helping thousands of qualified candidates gain entry into universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.<\/p>\n<p>He described the policy as a step toward fairness and inclusivity under the Renewed Hope education agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Federal Ministry of Education has announced that Mathematics will no longer be compulsory for students in the Arts and Humanities seeking admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions. The reform, part of the new National Guidelines for Entry Requirements into Tertiary Institutions, aims to expand access to higher education and eliminate unnecessary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76694","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76695,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76694\/revisions\/76695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}