JAMB sets matriculation conditions after fake admission controversy

• JAMB has listed 3 mandatory steps UTME candidates indispensable travel to beryllium included connected the National Matriculation List
• The steps see accepting admittance wrong the acceptable timeline and printing some the archetypal effect gaffe and admittance letter
• The determination comes aft implicit 4,000 graduates, including a orphaned postgraduate Basola Jamiu Owodunni, were barred from NYSC owed to an alleged unverified oregon improperly processed admissions

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has outlined 3 captious steps candidates indispensable fulfil to beryllium included successful the National Matriculation List.

The announcement, made during its 2025 Policy Meeting connected Admissions, follows mounting concerns implicit admittance irregularities that precocious affected thousands of graduates crossed the country.

JAMB has reiterated that immoderate admittance processed extracurricular the CAPS strategy is invalid. Photo: JAMB
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According to the caller directive, candidates indispensable judge their admittance connection wrong the stipulated period, people their archetypal JAMB effect gaffe and people their archetypal JAMB admittance letter.

These measures, JAMB says, are meant to safeguard the integrity of the clearance process and guarantee lone legitimately admitted students are listed for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and different statutory recognitions.

Over 4000 graduates denied entree to portal

The clarification comes connected the heels of a nationalist outcry involving implicit 4,000 graduates who were reportedly blocked from accessing their JAMB portals, galore of whom were denied NYSC mobilization.

Among the astir high-profile cases was that of Basola Jamiu Owodunni, an orphan who graduated with a 4.41 CGPA successful Civil Engineering from FUTA but was flagged by JAMB arsenic not decently admitted.

Owodunni counters JAMB fraud allegations, saying helium sat JAMB and processed his admittance done the CAPS system. Photo: X/Alex Onyia
Source: Twitter

Although Owodunni had presented admittance letters issued done JAMB's platform, the committee initially insisted that his sanction did not look connected CAPS (Central Admissions Processing System), rendering the admittance “fraudulent” nether existent guidelines.

It took weeks of nationalist advocacy—including interventions from acquisition activistic Alex Onyia and quality rights campaigners—for the substance to beryllium resolved.

Owodunni and galore others successful akin situations person present regained entree to their JAMB records and are cleared for NYSC.

JAMB, however, maintained that immoderate admittance not processed done CAPS remains invalid, careless of however convincing the supporting documents whitethorn appear.

“The combat against backdoor admissions transcends class, background, oregon idiosyncratic circumstances,” the committee stated.

The recently reiterated requirements are seen arsenic JAMB’s effort to adjacent gaps successful its strategy and forestall aboriginal occurrences. Stakeholders are urging candidates and institutions to comply strictly with these standards to debar unnecessary complications.

JAMB lists states with astir UTME malpractice

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had disclosed that Anambra and Lagos recorded the most incidents of malpractice during the precocious concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Speaking astatine a media briefing implicit the weekend, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, revealed that 80 individuals person truthful acold been apprehended for assorted exam-related offences crossed the country. Anambra led the database with 14 suspects, intimately followed by Lagos with nine.

According to Oloyede, the offences ranged from impersonation and possession of prohibited devices to biometric fraud and collusion with Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres.

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Source: Legit.ng