Lecturer Recommends 18-Year Minimum Age for Tertiary Admission to Curb Campus Ills.

As Nigerian tertiary institutions continue to experience certain ills from their students, with most of these atrocities committed by what the majority described as underage, revisiting the eighteen years as the appropriate age for the entrance into tertiary institutions has been stated as one of the ways to correct these ills.

A lecturer, Doctor Falilat Okeshina, stated this in an interview with Dominion News, stating that with this, many societal ills that originated from tertiary institutions would be corrected, adding that most parents also have a role to play in setting a standard for their children and making sure they adhere to it, with or without their availability.

She, however, advised that the federal government should pay more attention to tertiary institutions as a way of contributing significantly to the educational sector.