3000 Fake Graduates Uncovered By Jamb

Three thousand (3,000) fake graduates who never set foot within the four walls of a classroom. have been uncovered by the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board.

This was disclosed by the Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, during a meeting with the leadership of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities.

The board in its bulletin also decried the issue of illegal admissions by some institutions which, it said, had remained a source of embarrassment to the country.

“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.

Osun Defender reports that the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education, in December 2023, ordered the JAMB to present a list of tertiary institutions that had conducted irregular and illegal admissions.

The examination body had earlier warned candidates to desist from accepting admissions offered by such institutions without full academic participation.

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.