Nigerian government bans children below 11 years from participating in common entrance exams

 The Nigerian government Federal has ban children below 11 years old from participating in the National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE).

The permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, David Adejo made this known while monitoring the 2023 examination alongside the registrar of the examination body, the National Examination Council (NECO), Ibrahim Wushishi.

He lamented the rate at which parents made their underage children sit the National Common Entrance Examination.

Adejo said: “We are killing our children by allowing underage children to participate in the Common Entrance Examination.

“In the cause of monitoring the exercise, I saw children that are not up to 10 years siting for the examination. In fact, three of them accepted that they are nine years old. We are teaching these children the wrong values. Education is not about passing examination. It’s about teaching, learning and character formation