The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has exposed 3000 fake graduates who never went through its accreditational Examination before Studying in Universities across the country
The board also berated the problem of some universities unauthorized admittance, claiming that this continued to be an embarrassment to the nation.
This was announced by the Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, in a report that was printed in the board’s Abuja bulletin.
Oloyede revealed this in a meeting with the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities leadership, in the bulletin;
“Some ‘graduates’ had never entered the four walls of a university owing to the endemic corruption in the system but the board had documented over 3,000 of such cases”.
“Illegal admission of candidates into tertiary institutions in the country is an embarrassment and a disservice to the nation,” the bulletin read”.
In December 2023, the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education directed JAMB to submit a list of tertiary institutions that had engaged in unauthorised and irregular admissions.
Candidates were previously cautioned by the test organisation not to accept admission offers from these kinds of colleges unless they fully participated in the academic programme.
In the declaration headed “Cessation of illegal/irregular admission,” JAMB reaffirmed that only JAMB should be used for processing applications for admission to first degree programmes, national diploma programmes, national innovation diploma programmes, and Nigeria certificates in education for full-time, part-time, outreach, and distance learning programmes.
