EducationTertiary Institutions Offered 706,189 Illegal Admissions- JAMB Registrar

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ABUJA — The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede says the examination body has uncovered 706, 189 illegal admissions by universities, colleges of education, polytechnics, and other institutions.

According to him, 114 universities account for 67,795 of the illegal admissions; 489,918 in 137 polytechnics; 142,818 in 80 Colleges of Education and 5,678 in 37 other institutions and the list of the 114 universities indicted for illegal admissions was presented to the stakeholders.

Oloyede disclosed this during a consultative/sensitisation meeting with stakeholders in Abuja said the illegality was perpetrated by public and private higher institutions across the six geopolitical zones.

“The ‘hidden’ admissions, were unknown to JAMB as prescribed by law, were perpetrated from 2017 to 2020 by the affected institutions.

“Vice-chancellors, rectors and provosts of the affected institutions have admitted their mistakes by “sending a formal letter of confession and disclosure to the JAMB Registrar.”

“The Education Minister Malam Adamu Adamu has agreed to a plea by JAMB for a last chance for the violators.

He said the institutions disregarded JAMB’s Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) which allows institutions to “only admit candidates that met the requirements.

“As a measure of mopping up the backlog of improperly admitted candidates, the Honourable Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, assented to the Board’s plea for a last chance for the violators.

“He also approved the caveat that the culprits should, first and foremost, declare the number of candidates admitted outside CAPS between 2017 and 2020 by sending a formal letter of confession and disclosure to the JAMB Registrar.

“Those minimally qualified would then be condoned to put an end to the period and finally put the matter to rest.

“The Board was then directed to launch massive campaigns to educate the public against accepting such illegal admissions henceforth.”

“The illegality had hindered the future of many graduates and it was time to stop it.

“The graduates of the illegitimate process need admission letters to pursue post-graduation endeavours like housemanship, scholarship, enrolment into the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), among others, they are out of sync,” he said.

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)

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