JAMB Reveals Fraudulent Admission Practices, Alerts Perpetrators
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has identified some fraudulent methods used by Nigerian tertiary institutions to admit students and warns against the ongoing commission of these practices.
Speaking at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday, JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin revealed that the board has encountered a concerning surge of clearly fraudulent affidavits and an upsurge of doctored age adjustments on national identification slips being submitted to the examination body to upgrade recorded age.
“The attention of the Board has been drawn to the predilection of some institutions to admit candidates outside the approved Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) platform and process such through the condonement of illegal admissions window to accord legitimacy,” Benjamin said.
“In order to close this abused window, the Board has decided that: all institutions should now (or never) disclose all candidates illegally admitted prior to 2017 whose records are in their system within the next one month beginning from 1st August 2024; and any admission purportedly given prior to 2017 will no longer be recognised or condoned unless disclosed within this one-month window.
“Institutions are advised to comply with this directive as there will not be any further condonement of hitherto unrecorded candidates who did not even register with JAMB not to talk of sitting for any entrance examination.”
While reiterating that the current minimum age for admissions remains 16, Benjamin warned that JAMB will no longer entertain absorption of illegal admissions through the “condonement of illegal admissions without a registration number.”