Illegal Admissions: We Are Ready For Defence JAMB Registrar Says

“We have over 900 institutions that are producing admission candidates with JAMB, but we have continued to take measures in conjunction with the NYSC to make sure that the fake ones among those who are being mobilized are demobilized.

“One of the steps we have taken is to introduce the Central Admissions Processing System, which accommodates all the genuine cases and exposes all the bad ones.

“CAPS has shown clearly that those who are bad have nowhere to hide and will continue to be exposed.

‘’We started CAPS in 2017, and some people thought it was a joke, but we have come out with the list of people who have been illegally admitted between 2017 and 2020.

“As of today, on their own, tertiary institutions who initially denied any culpability, have confessed they gave illegal admission to close to one million candidates between 2017 and 2021.

“Last year, the Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, eventually granted amnesty and directed that we should try to rescue close to one million candidates that had been illegally admitted.

“If you take into consideration that the country admits about 600,000 candidates into tertiary institutions each year, you will realize that close to one million illegal candidates is enough to destabilize the system.”

Consequently, he called on institutions to make sure that they followed the rules.

Oloyede said there were different shades of malpractices in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by JAMB.

“If you’re talking about cheating in the exam hall and trying to change marks, go to southern Nigeria. However, if you’re talking about manipulating the registration process before the exams, go to northern Nigeria,” he said.

Other issues identified by the JAMB Registrar bedeviling the system included students trying to compromise staff for mobilization; fraudsters defrauding candidates with fake admissions; delay by institutions in processing genuine admissions and the delegation of authorities by institutions to less qualified persons who are compromising their integrity.

The NYSC chief expressed concern about the declining quality of graduates being presented for mobilization.

He said, “During the 2022 Batch ‘B’ Streams I and II orientation programmes, our field officers detected a good number of prospective corps members, especially those claiming to be foreign-trained, with shocking inability to defend their supposed educational qualifications.