JAMB uncovers 3,000 fake graduates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has uncovered 3,000 fake graduates who have never entered a classroom.

The Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this on Thursday in a report published in the board’s bulletin and made available to newsmen in Abuja.

The bulletin quoted the registrar to have disclosed this during a meeting with the leadership of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities.

According to the bulletin, the board also decried illegal admissions by some institutions which had constituted embarrassment to the country.

“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,” the bulletin said.

“Illegal admission of candidates into tertiary institutions in the country is an embarrassment and a disservice to the nation,” the bulletin,” it added.

Recall that in December 2023, the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education had ordered the JAMB to submit a list of tertiary institutions that had conducted irregular and illegal admissions.

Also, JAMB had earlier warned candidates to desist from accepting admissions offered by such institutions without full academic participation.

In the statement titled: “Cessation of illegal/irregular admission,” the exam body stressed 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 among others must be processed only through JAMB.