Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has uncovered 706,189 illegal admissions by universities, Colleges of Education, polytechnics, and other allies.
JAMB registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who disclosed this in Abuja at the Consultative Sensitization Meeting with Select Stakeholders, said the illegalities were perpetrated from 2017 to 2020.
He said illegal admissions have damaged the image of the country, adding that public and private higher institutions across six geo-political zones were responsible for the illegality.
Oloyede said 114 universities accounted for 67.795 of the illegal admissions, 137 polytechnics were responsible for 489,918, 80 Colleges of Education for 142, 818, and 37 other institutions involved in 5,678 cases.
He said such admissions were unknown to JAMB as prescribed by law, adding that the affected institutions’ Vice-Chancellors, Rectors, and Provosts have admitted their mistakes by “sending a formal letter of confession and disclosure to the JAMB Registrar.”
In the list of the 114 universities indicted for illegal admissions include: University of Jos (7,600); Benue State University (6,171); Olabisi Onabanjo University (5,669); Kwara State University (4, 281); Novena University(3,432); University of Nigeria, Nsukka(2,732); and Imo State University(2,330).
Others are: University of Calabar(2,074); NTA Television College (1,934); Baze University (1,717); Oduduwa University [1,450); Kaduna State College of Education (1,417); Tai Solarin University of Education (1,101); Al-qalam University (1,062); Gombe State University (1,017).
Oloyede said as a measure of mopping up the backlog of improperly admitted candidates, the Honourable Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, had assented to the Board’s plea for a last chance for the violators.
“He also approved the caveat that the culprits should, first and foremost, declare the number of candidates admitted outside CAPS between 2017 and 2020 by sending a formal letter of confession and disclosure to the JAMB Registrar,” Oloyede said.
