The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has
advised candidates to reject admission offer into any tertiary institution not
done on its official letter headed paper.
This is contained in a weekly bulletin issued by Fabian
Benjamin, JAMB spokesman, in Abuja, on Monday.
The exam body also warned tertiary institutions to stop
offering admissions to applicants through their own portals.
Benjamin said offering admissions via school portal is an
abuse of the automated central admissions processing system (CAPS) which the
board uses to process admission into undergraduate programmes in tertiary
institutions in the country.
He also said any candidate who accepts such admission offer
does so at his or her own risk, adding that the candidate may not participate
in the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.
“The attention of the board has been drawn to the purported
offer of admissions to candidates through some institutions’ portals. The board
wishes to disassociate itself from such as it is a flagrant abuse of the
automated Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) which is the only
credible avenue for admission into undergraduate programmes of all tertiary
institutions in the country,” the bulletin read.
“Institutions who offer admission outside CAPS do so to
avoid equitable and just process which CAPS enforces. It would be recalled that
the board had announced that it would stop condoning illegitimate admission
from 2017 admission exercise.
“The board states unequivocally that any candidate who
accepts any offer of admission outside CAPS does so at his or her own risk.
“The board reiterates that any admission into First Degree,
National Certificate of Education, National Diploma and National Innovative
Diploma not on the official letter headed paper of the board or outside CAPS is
null, void and would not be condoned by JAMB.
“Institutions are again reminded that admission made outside
CAPS would jeopardise the participation of the innocent candidates in the
compulsory National Youth Service Corps mobilisation exercise or any job
placement which requires the certification or endorsement of the board.
“Institutions cannot publish any admission list which has
not been approved on CAPS. Therefore publishing an admission list prior to its
processing on CAPS is improper and a source of confusion as many of such admissions
were found to be inappropriate and had to be reversed.”
The spokesman cited a case of a university which has a quota
of 50 for LL.B programme but offered admission and received acceptance fee from
350 candidates.
He said the admission offer was not processed on CAPS,
adding that the council of legal education would not have allowed such case.
Bejamin said the reversal of over 300 candidates is now a
subject of litigation between the university and the candidates.
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