Admissions outside CAPS illegal ‐ JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has warned tertiary institutions against granting admissions extracurricular the Central Admissions Processing System, CAPS, describing specified practices arsenic illegal.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, gave the informing during the 2026 Policy Meeting connected Admissions into Tertiary Institutions organised by the committee on Monday in Abuja.

Oloyede said immoderate institutions were inactive issuing admittance letters to candidates who had not been approved done CAPS, contrary to Federal Government directives.

He noted that the signifier undermined transparency successful the admittance process, adding that determination were cases wherever candidates with higher scores were denied admittance portion those with little scores were admitted.

According to him, disciplinary actions person already been initiated against affected institutions, and sanctions volition beryllium applied.

The registrar added that a lawsuit involving 11 universities implicit alleged amerciable admissions was presently earlier the court.

Oloyede besides refuted claims that candidates were posted extracurricular their chosen introspection towns, explaining that candidates selected their preferred introspection towns during registration an...