The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede aaid the board has discovered 706, 189 illegal admissions by universities, colleges of education, polytechnics and other institutions.
He said the illegality was committed by public and private higher institutions across the six geopolitical zones in the country.
According to Oloyede, 114 universities account for 67,795 of the illegal admissions; 489,918 in 137 polytechnics; 142,818 in 80 Colleges of Education and 5,678 in 37 other institutions.
The ‘hidden’ admissions, which the registrar said were unknown to JAMB as prescribed by law, were perpetrated from 2017 to 2020 by the affected institutions.
During a consultative meeting with stakeholders in Abuja, Oloyede said the Minister of Education,Malam Adamu Adamu has agreed to a plea by JAMB for a last chance for the violators.
He said the institutions disregarded JAMB’s Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) which allows institutions to “only admit candidates that met the requirements.”
He said vice chancellors, rectors and provosts of the affected institutions’ have admitted their mistakes by “sending a formal letter of confession and disclosure to the JAMB Registrar.”
The list of the 114 universities indicted for illegal admissions was presented to the stakeholders.
