The Senate has stressed that any adjustments to the age limit would require proper legislative procedures. Whether the age involves lowering or raising the limit.

This was made known in an interview with journalists on Wednesday in Abuja by that Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Adeyemi Adaramodu.

Recall that last week, the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, stated that the government is tinkering with changing the minimum age for entering universities to 18 years old.

The Minister’s statement, however, has since generated controversy among education stakeholders across the country.

But the Senate Chairman said, “Comment on the minimum age requirement for admission is not a law.”

“So it is just an opinion. It’s 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.

“You can bring whatever to the floor in form of a Bill. When you bring it, there’s going to be public hearing.

“All the stakeholders will sit down and talk about it. The parents, teachers, legislators, civil society organizations, even foreign organizations.

“We 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’s still a comment which cannot be taken to be the law.”