Favour Osoba
We are moving from education that is reliant on reading textbooks and passing exams.
We are getting to a stage where education is what can you use your knowledge to do for the society.
We are killing our children by allowing underage children to write the Common Entrance Examination.
I saw children that I know that are not up to 10, and three of them accepted that they are nine years old.
The Federal Government has revealed plans to ban underage pupils from sitting for the National Common Entrance Examination conducted by the National Examination Council (NECO) for admission into unity colleges across the country.
NECO has been directed to put strict measures in place to prevent underage from registering for the examination, including making birth certificates compulsory as registration requirement.
The Federal Government stated that for a pupil to get into secondary school, he or she should be at least 12 years.