JAMB uncovers one million fraudulent admissions

So far, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, or JAMB, has found one million illegal institutional admissions.

According to the board, this was the reason why some candidates were unable to obtain their admission letters, which would have qualified them to participate in the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps, or obtain exemption letters.

In a statement, JAMB’s Head of Media and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, said the illegal institutional admissions took place between 2017 and 2020 outside of the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).

“The series of complaints arose from these students’ frustrations, who are expressing anger at the lack of formal recognition of their degrees by relevant authorities,” the statement said.

“As a result, the Hon. Minister of Education, Mall. Adamu Adamu, approved a final batch of these shady admissions out of compassion.”

“It should be remembered that the Board had placed relevant advertisements in three national dailies (Blueprint, Guardian, and Vanguard) on November 24, 2021, based on that act of magnanimity.” The same notice was posted on the Board’s website, along with an easy-to-follow Advisory for all institutions of higher learning on how to redeem these candidates.

“So far, close to one million undisclosed illegal institutional admissions have been revealed based on available data.” What’s surprising is that, as of today, less than 5% of such students’ information had been uploaded to the Board portal as required by the institutions.

“It’s even more egregious to note that many of the schools had not correctly keyed in their details even among the few that had been uploaded by the schools on the Board portal.”

For the Board to process the candidates’ condonement applications, JAMB urged institutions to upload the matriculation numbers, names, disciplines, year of graduation, and other necessary details of the candidates as soon as possible.