The Federal Government reiterated its stand on the 16 years as a minimum for admission into tertiary institutions.

At this year’s annual policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions held in Abuja, the meeting adopted 150 as the benchmark for admission into universities and 100 for polytechnics and colleges of education.

The meeting adopted 140 for colleges of nursing across the country.


This means that no tertiary institutions should admit students who score below the approved benchmarks, while institutions can still fix higher cut-off marks for their applicants.

The decision was adopted after the heads of the institutions voted.