Quota System Destroyed: Court Cancels Disparity In Federal Colleges’ Admission Requirements A federal high court in Lagos has voided the education policy of the federal government on the use of different cut-off marks for admission into government colleges, otherwise known as Unity Schools. After Nyesome Wike, former supervising minister of education, recently admitted that the Unity School admission requirements were not in order, as the process is based on “30 per cent merit and 70 per cent other factors”, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), filed a public-interest litigation against the policy, suing the attorney-general of the federation and the minister of education. Agbakoba approached the court under provisions of the Constitution as well as 2009 Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement Rules to contest the legality of using different cut-off marks for Unity Schools based on gender, ethnicity and state of origin. He described such application as discriminatory and a violation of the fundamental rights to freedom from discrimination guaranteed by the Constitution.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 07:44:51 +0000
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