The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has said it uncovered no fewer than 3,000 fake graduates who never attended any university classes.
This revelation points to systemic and endemic corruption in the system of education.
JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede revealed this in a report contained in the board’s bulletin made available in Abuja.
According to the bulletin, these “graduates” only existed on the paper and not at any time real students of any university. Prof. Oloyede said the issue was a very big embarrassment apart from sabotage to the nation.
Meeting with Pro-Chancellors
He made the revelation in a meeting with the leadership of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities.
Prof. Oloyede stated that the board remains resolute in addressing the problem of illegal admissions that have beleaguered the Nigerian education system.
Illegal admissions have remained a major concern for JAMB over the years.
In December 2023, the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education ordered JAMB to release a list of tertiary institutions involved in irregular and illegal admissions.
The examination body has issued serial warning over the year advising candidates never to accept admissions from institutions that short-circuit official academic processes.
JAMB had also restated this position through a recent press statement, “Cessation of illegal/irregular admission,” to the effect that all applications for admissions to first-degree programs, national diploma, national innovation diploma, and the Nigeria certificate in education, whether full-time, distance learning, part-time, outreach, or sandwich programs, must be processed only by JAMB.
This is to stamp out the high level of illegal admissions and make the system clean.
Exhuming 3,000 fake graduates offers better brush-up for strong measures in combating corruption in the education sector.
What JAMB is doing presently to right the wrongs in illegal admissions is all part of bringing sanity to the higher educational institutions in Nigeria.
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