88 Tertiary Institutions Conducted Illegal Admissions For 2022/2023 – JAMB (See List)

Eighty Eight(88) tertiary institutions have been alleged to had conducted admissions outside of the Central Admissions Processing System popularly referred to as CAPS for the 2022/2023 academic session.

According to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, admissions conducted outside CAPS are illegal, null and void.

JAMB had in 2017 introduced the Central Admissions Processing System where all tertiary institutions upload the admission status of candidates offered admission in the institutions.

CAPS has centralised and automated admission processes between candidates and their chosen tertiary institutions.

Also, JAMB in 2020, warned institutions to stop offering admissions to candidates through their own portals.

The practice, according to JAMB is a flagrant abuse of the automated Central Admissions Processing System.

The board in April 2024, noted that it would no longer condone illegal admissions conducted outside of the CAPS.

Meanwhile, the board has warned candidates to desist from accepting admissions offered by the institutions without going through it.

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.

In a report tagged, ‘Compiled assessment of institutions on compliance with the 2022/2023 admission guidelines’, the board noted that it scored institutions who complied fully with admission guidelines 10 points; those with partial compliance, five points, while those institutions who failed to comply were awarded zero point.

Under the section for the conduct of full admissions on CAPS, 88 institutions were reported to had failed to comply.

Some of the institutions according to The Punch, are the University of Uyo, University of Abuja, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Yaba College of Technology, Plateau State University, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Federal University of Technology Owerri, Coal City University, Crawford University, Crescent University, Ebonyi State University, Rhema University, Borno State University, Chrisland University, Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu University.