Three thousand phony graduates who have never entered a classroom have been discovered by the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board.
The board also denounced the problem of some schools’ unauthorized admittance, claiming that this has continued to be an embarrassment to the nation.
This was disclosed by the Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, in a report that Punch correspondent in Abuja was able to collect from the board’s bulletin.
The bulletin states that Oloyede revealed this to the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities leadership during a meeting.
“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.
The issue of illegal admissions has over the years been at the forefront of JAMB’s priorities.
In December 2023, the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education directed the JAMB to submit a list of postsecondary schools that have engaged in unauthorized and irregular admissions.
Candidates were previously cautioned by the examination organization not to accept admission offers from these kinds of universities unless they fully participated in the academic program.
In the statement titled, “Cessation of illegal/irregular admission,” JAMB reiterated that all applications of admissions to first degree, national diploma, national innovation diploma and the Nigeria certificate in education into full-time, distance learning, part-time, outreach, sandwich, etc, must be processed only through JAMB.
