JAMB bows to pressure, rectifies Nigerian graduate’s status after fake admission alarm

• The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reactivated the portal of Jamiu Basola, a Civil Engineering postgraduate from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA)
• This was aft Basola alerted Nigerians pursuing trouble successful registering for the one-year mandatory NYSC programme aft JAMB flagged his admittance arsenic fake aft 7 years
• JAMB took a decisive enactment pursuing sustained efforts by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS)

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reactivated the portal of Jamiu Basola, a Civil Engineering postgraduate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, aft helium was antecedently flagged for possessing a fake admission.

Olasola Jamiu, a pupil of the Federal University of Technology (FUTA), confirms JAMB has added his sanction to its authoritative matriculation list. Photo credit: Olasola Jamiu, JAMB HQ
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Jamiu Basola cries retired to Nigerians

Legit.ng reported that Basola, who graduated successful 2024, said helium sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) successful 2017 and was admitted into FUTA successful 2018.

However, an contented surfaced during his last clearance erstwhile the school’s Student Affairs Division informed him that his mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) had been rejected.

Basola added that aft respective failed attempts to entree his JAMB portal, helium wrote letters to assorted officials astatine FUTA, including the registrar, vice-chancellor, and president of the admissions committee, urging them to intervene.

Following the involution of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Jamiu Basola’s admittance presumption was corrected connected JAMB's portal. Photo credit: JAMB HQ
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Jamiu Basola's sanction added to JAMB’s matriculation database

But successful a telephone interrogation with The Punch connected Monday, July 7, Basola confirmed that his antecedently locked JAMB portal had been unlocked and his sanction had present appeared connected the matriculation list, a request for NYSC mobilisation.

“We are inactive successful the process due to the fact that I person not been mobilised for NYSC.“My portal was locked. But now, I americium capable to log in; I tin present reprint.“Though I had immoderate of the documents before, I was capable to reprint my documents again.“My sanction was not connected the matriculation list, but present it has changed,” Basola said.

This improvement was besides confirmed successful a connection issued connected Monday by the National Association of Nigerian Students’ (NANS) nationalist national relations officer, Adeyemi Ajasa, helium described the solution of the lawsuit arsenic a important triumph for justness and pupil welfare.

“This affirmative improvement is simply a nonstop effect of the decisive involution by the NANS nationalist leadership, led by the astute President, Comrade Olushola Oladoja,” Ajasa said.

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• JAMB lists states with astir UTME malpractice

JAMB: New universities UTME candidates tin take

In different development, Legit.ng earlier reported that JAMB announced admission process into recently established universities.

The introspection committee said determination are caller universities crossed the state that UTME candidates tin use to for admission.

JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, gave a breakdown of the admittance process to the recently established universities.

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Source: Legit.ng