The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, has uncovered 3,000 fake graduates. These are people that never attended any higher institution in the country.
Making the revelation, JAMB, bemoaned the issue of illegal admissions by some institutions in the country. It disclosed the development had remained a source of embarrassment to the nation.
This was disclosed by JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede in a report published in the board’s bulletin.
According to the report, the JAMB Registrar disclosed the fake graduates’ discovery during a meeting with the leadership of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities.
He 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 bulletin read.
Recall that the issue of illegal admissions into Nigerian universities has over the years been at the forefront of JAMB’s priorities.
The concern was highlighted by the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education, in December 2023. The Committee then ordered the JAMB to present a list of tertiary institutions that had conducted irregular and illegal admissions.
JAMB had earlier warned candidates to desist from accepting admissions offered by such institutions without full academic participation.
This was contained in the statement by JAMB titled, “Cessation of illegal/irregular admission,”
It 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.
However, the admission body did not state what it would do with the discovery of the fake graduates.
source: PUNCH
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