An online report claiming Lagos State Government will from the next academic session, enforce the 12-year-old requirement for pupils wishing to enter Junior Secondary School 1 (JSS1) to prevent underage registration has been debunked by the Lagos State Ministry of Education.
In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, it was noted that the unsigned and undated document about the age limit for Junior Secondary School entrants was first denounced in 2020.
The Commissioner asserted that the State Government never released such a statement, emphasising that the document misquoted was not a policy statement but an internal memorandum containing suggestions and a summary of discussions drawn up after a consultative meeting.
She explained that the said meeting was held with relevant stakeholders in the Education Sector in Y2020 on implementing the National Policy on Education in the State, clearly stated in a press release issued by the Ministry in April 2020.
Mrs Adefisayo called the perpetrators of the social media report “saboteurs” and urged the general public to disregard the viral statement and rest assured that the Ministry will always involve stakeholders in policy decisions and implementation.
