Examination boards in Kenya and Uganda are actually writing Nigeria to confirm data introduced by Nigerian candidates looking for admissions into tertiary establishments of their international locations.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board made this recognized in a doc for the 2024 coverage assembly.
JAMB famous within the doc that it could not falsify the data of any college students whereas stressing the necessity to shield Nigeria’s tertiary training from disrepute.
The event comes on the again of the Federal Authorities’s determination to droop the verification of diploma certificates from Uganda, Kenya, Benin Republic, Togo and another international locations over allegations of certificates racketeering.
In March, the Federal Authorities arrange an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Diploma Certificates Milling to probe the actions of certificates racketeers following an investigative report printed by Day by day Nigerian which uncovered the actions of pretend diploma mills within the Benin Republic.
Day by day Nigerian reporter Umar Audu revealed how he obtained a level inside six weeks and even proceeded to embark on necessary youth service below the Nationwide Youth Service Corps scheme again in Nigeria.
The investigative report, which uncovered the illegalities perpetrated by some tertiary establishments within the West African international locations, led to the Nigerian authorities inserting a ban on the accreditation and analysis of levels from Benin Republic and Togo.
The Minister of Training, Tahir Mamman, having acquired the report of the committee, famous that holders of pretend levels from Nigerian and international universities could be flushed out of the system.
Among the suggestions of the committee pressured the necessity for universities within the nation to conduct their admissions by way of the Central Admissions Processing System popularly often called CAPS and the necessary submission of matriculation lists to the federal Ministry of Training.
In a doc obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday, JAMB famous that Kenya and Uganda examination boards are actually writing to Nigeria to confirm data of Nigerian college students looking for to check within the international locations.
“Uganda and Kenya examination boards are actually writing to JAMB to substantiate data introduced by candidates for admission of candidates. JAMB wouldn’t falsify report,” the Nigerian examination physique acknowledged.
The PUNCH solely reported on Monday that the Federal Authorities had mandated all larger establishments within the nation to “often submit their matriculation lists to the Federal Ministry of Training not later than three months after matriculation ceremonies.”
The listing, the federal government stated, have to be submitted “by way of the devoted channel of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.”
The initiative is without doubt one of the suggestions made by the Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Diploma Certificates Milling arrange by the federal government to fight faux diploma mills or racketeers within the nation.