The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board [JAMB] says it has uncovered 3,000 self-proclaimed graduates who did not set foot within the four walls of a classroom.
The Board also decried the problems of illegal admissions being carried out by some tertiary institutions which, it said, has remained a source of embarrassment to the country.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this in a report published in the Board’s bulletin.
According to the bulletin, Oloyede disclosed this during a meeting with the leadership of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities.
The report reads, “Some ‘graduates’ had never entered the four walls of a university owing to the endemic corruption in the system, but the board had documented over 3,000 of such cases.
“Illegal admission of candidates into tertiary institutions in the country is an embarrassment and a disservice to the nation,” the bulletin read.
In the statement titled, “Cessation of illegal/irregular admission,” JAMB reiterated that all applications of admissions to first degree, national diploma, national innovation diploma and the Nigeria certificate in education into full-time, distance learning, part-time, outreach, sandwich, etc, must be processed only through JAMB.
