The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is prosecuting five ring-leaders for procuring fake tertiary school admission letters to 17,417 candidates.
Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s spokesperson, said the five
confessed to the crime and are being prosecuted at the federal high court in
Abuja.
He said they were arrested with the assistance of the
Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre following an investigation.
JAMB said a total of 17,417 candidates were flagged as
beneficiaries of the scam.
Benjamin said JAMB cleared a total of 6,903 candidates who
were asked to rectify their minor discrepancies between 2024 and May 2025.
This left behind 10,514 who had been referred to their
nearest designated police investigation offices.
Among the 10,514 candidates, 5,669 were confirmed to have
outrightly procured forged letters.
A total of 4,832 candidates, whose admission was then
undisclosed to JAMB, were being processed for regularisation by their
conferring institutions under a (2017-2020) ministerial waiver.
Benjamin said some of these candidates went ahead to engage
the syndicate to side-step the process.
Some 13 cases were found to have been flagged due to one act
of omission or commission on the part of the candidates.
He said 12 of the 13 candidates registered in 2017 when CAPS
was established.
JAMB warned that any candidate found to have employed or
solicited assistance from examination and certificate fraudsters would face
prosecution.
The board said candidates who deviate from the laid-down
procedures for registration, examination, or admission would face the
consequences.
In 2017, JAMB introduced the Central Admissions Processing
System (CAPS) to streamline admissions.
Admissions offered outside CAPS were deemed “undisclosed” or
“illegal”.
Between 2017 and 2020, JAMB regularised such admissions
under a waiver from the then minister of education.
However, all admissions offered outside CAPS since 2020 have
now been deemed illegal and cannot be regularised.
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