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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian Senate has made it clear that the statements regarding the potential increase of the age limit to 18 years were individual viewpoints.<\/p>\n

The Senate stressed that any adjustments to the age limit would require proper legislative procedures, whether they involve lowering or raising the limit.<\/p>\n

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Adeyemi Adaramodu, made this known in an interview with journalists on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Recall that last week, Prof. Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Education, stated that the government is thinking about changing the minimum age for entering universities to 18 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cComment on the minimum age requirement for admission is not a law,\u201d the lawmaker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it is just an opinion. It\u2019s not a law. By the time the Senate resumes, whoever wants to bring that one out to make it a law, will now bring it and then the procedures will take place.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can bring whatever to the floor in form of a bill. When you bring it, there\u2019s going to be public hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the stakeholders will sit down and talk about it. The parents, teachers, legislators, civil society organisations, even foreign organisations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will sit down and talk. Even if they say that the minimum age should be 30 or 12, we will all discuss it in an open forum. So it\u2019s still a comment which cannot be taken to be the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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