The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has accused Nigerian Universities, colleges of education and polytechnics of offering students illegal admissions.
Analysis of data on the admissions conducted for the 2022/2023 admission session in Nigerian universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions of learning revealed that 88 institutions conducted admissions outside of the Central Admissions Processing System popularly referred to as CAPS.
According to JAMB, admissions conducted outside CAPS are illegal, null and void.
The board in 2017 introduced a central admission processing system where all candidates both in the Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education can be admitted into their various areas of studies.
JAMB in 2020 advised schools to abstain from offering admission to schools through their own portal as this was termed an abuse of the automated Central Admissions Processing System.
The board in a bulletin warned candidates to desist from accepting admissions offered by the institutions without going through it.
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.
In a report tagged, ‘Compiled assessment of institutions on compliance with the 2022/2023 admission guidelines’, the board noted that it scored institutions who complied fully with admission guidelines 10 points; those with partial compliance, five points, while those institutions who failed to comply were awarded zero point.
Under the section for the conduct of full admissions on CAPS, Punch reported that 88 institutions failed to comply.
Some of the institutions are the University of Uyo, University of Abuja, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Yaba College of Technology, Plateau State University, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Federal University of Technology Owerri, Coal City University, Crawford University, Crescent University, Ebonyi State University, Rhema University, Borno State University, Chrisland University, Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu University.
