The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has revealed that it uncovered 3,000 fake graduates who never attended any classes within university walls. This alarming discovery highlights the endemic corruption within the educational system.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in a report published in the board’s bulletin, which was obtained by our correspondent in Abuja. During a meeting with the leadership of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities, Oloyede emphasized the embarrassment and disservice caused by illegal admissions.
The bulletin stated, “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 issue of illegal admissions has been a major concern for JAMB. In December 2023, the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education ordered JAMB to present a list of tertiary institutions that had conducted irregular and illegal admissions.
JAMB has repeatedly warned candidates against accepting admissions from such institutions without full academic participation. In a statement titled “Cessation of illegal/irregular admission,” JAMB reiterated that all 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.
