The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Andrew Adejoh, made this acknowledged in Abuja on Saturday at the same time as tracking the 2023 not-unusual place front examinations into Unity Schools.
The exam became organised with the aid of using the National Examination Council.
An overall of 72,821 applicants sat for the exam on Saturday nationwide.
Adejo stated: “This 12 months, I even have a recommendation for parents, and I beg you, take this recommendation to any unmarried domestic you understand.
We are killing our youngsters with the aid of using permitting underage kids to write down the Common Entrance Examination.
“I noticed kids that I realize aren’t as much as 10, and 3 of them generic that they’re 9 years old. We are doing many things; one, we’re coaching the kids on the incorrect values.
Education isn’t approximately passing checks. Education is coaching, mastering and man or woman formation
“I beg the parents, allow those kids to do the checks after they should. We don’t get cost via way of means of pushing your infant too a long way.
Most of the time, if an infant begins offevolved too early, he or she can be able to have troubles later in life.
“Education is designed in this kind of manner that at any specific level in life, there are messages your mind can take and understand, and be capable of use.
We are transferring from schooling this is reliant on studying textbooks and passing assessments.
“We have become to a level wherein training is what you may use your information to do for society.
You placed a small infant to undergo all of the rigours, and by the point he finishes secondary, attending University will become a problem. I had that revel in with a pal.
To date that buddy did now no longer get right into a University, genuinely due to the fact he turned into placed into college in advance than age that he become speculated to be placed into the faculty.
“Let our youngsters get to the correct age earlier than scripting this examination and we’re going to ensure NECO places in area suitable checks.
We didn’t need to get to the factor wherein we might say “Deliver a beginning certificate,” however this is the level we’re going to now.
In registering, additionally add the infant’s delivery certificate, so that at our very own end, we’re capable of reducing the number of those things.”
The Permanent Secretary additionally cited that the efforts of the Federal Government and different stakeholders in encouraging ladies’ training are yielding fruit, pronouncing the number of women that registered for the Common Entrance Examination this yr is 38,000, a ways above the preceding years.
The Registrar of NECO, Professor Dantani Wushishi, stated the behaviour of the exam turned typically easy and orderly, pronouncing from the reviews acquired from throughout the country, the exam went on hitch-free.
While confirming that 72,821 applicants registered for the 2023 National Common Entrance Examination, Wushishi disclosed that Lagos State had the best enrollment, observed through FCT, at the same time as the kingdom with the bottom registration, Kebbi, has approximately one hundred fifteen registered applicants.
He stated that the Council might install location mechanisms to test a number of the major gaps due to an upsurge in registration an afternoon earlier than the exam.
