The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has uncovered 3,000 pretend graduates who by no means set foot throughout the 4 partitions of a classroom.
The board additionally decried the difficulty of unlawful admissions by some establishments which, it mentioned, had remained a supply of embarrassment to the nation.
The Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made this recognized in a report printed within the board’s bulletin, which was obtained by our correspondent in Abuja.
Based on the bulletin, Oloyede disclosed this throughout a gathering with the management of the Committee of Professional-Chancellors of State Universities.
“Some ‘graduates’ had by no means entered the 4 partitions of a college owing to the endemic corruption within the system however the board had documented over 3,000 of such instances.
“Unlawful admission of candidates into tertiary establishments within the nation is a humiliation and a disservice to the nation,” the bulletin learn.
The difficulty of unlawful admissions has over time been on the forefront of JAMB’s priorities.
The Home of Representatives Committee on Primary Training, in December 2023, ordered the JAMB to current a listing of tertiary establishments that had performed irregular and unlawful admissions.
The examination physique had earlier warned candidates to desist from accepting admissions supplied by such establishments with out full tutorial participation.
Within the assertion titled, “Cessation of unlawful/irregular admission,” JAMB reiterated that each one functions of admissions to first diploma, nationwide diploma, nationwide innovation diploma and the Nigeria certificates in schooling into full-time, distance studying, part-time, outreach, sandwich, and so forth, have to be processed solely by means of JAMB.