The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned that establishments failing to submit their matriculation lists for the 2022 and 2023 admission periods is not going to have their admissions accredited for the 2024 and 2025 workout routines.
This stern directive was issued by the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, following a persistent failure by some establishments to ahead their matriculation lists to the Board, a few of which haven’t made any submission within the final three educational periods.
The Board described this continued defiance as absurd and unacceptable.
“The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, at a gathering with Admissions Desk Officers (ADO), directed that establishments, which fail to submit their matriculation record for the 2022 and 2023 admissions, shouldn’t have their admissions accredited for the 2024 and 2025 admission workout routines,” the board acknowledged.
Prof. Oloyede defined that the concession for approving some 2024 admissions was because of the truth that some establishments are nonetheless conducting admission processes for this 12 months, however confused that these establishments are anticipated to conform as soon as their admissions are full.
To make sure compliance, the Registrar directed that an advert be positioned in main newspapers warning that admissions from defaulting establishments is not going to be accredited. Admissions Desk Officers had been instructed to strictly implement the directive.
The transfer is a part of JAMB’s ongoing effort to curb admission fraud via the automation of the Nationwide Matriculation Listing (NML). The NML confirms college students’ admission into Nigerian tertiary establishments by way of the Board’s Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).
Submission of the NML can be required for establishments to compete for the Nationwide Tertiary Admission Efficiency-Benefit Award (NATAP-M Award).
Nairametrics reported in February that JAMB had raised considerations over establishments admitting candidates with unverified or fraudulent Superior Degree outcomes, in some circumstances exterior the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).
The Board described the development as a critical breach, warning that such actions compromise the credibility of the admission course of and will make the establishments complicit in consequence falsification.
CAPS, which serves as JAMB’s automated and centralised admission processing system, is designed to make sure transparency, promote merit-based choice, forestall a number of admissions, and get rid of fraud by permitting candidates to simply accept or reject affords on-line.
The Board confused that each admission should go via this platform to make sure correct verification and uphold the integrity of tertiary admissions in Nigeria.
Investigations by JAMB uncovered cases the place pretend outcomes had been proposed on the CAPS platform and different circumstances the place candidates had been admitted completely exterior of it utilizing cast credentials.
The warning prolonged past establishments to Laptop-Based mostly Check (CBT) Centres, which JAMB mentioned should strictly comply with registration guidelines.
