JAMB uncovers 3,000 fake Nigerian graduates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has said it uncovered 3,000 Nigerian fake graduates.

JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede made this known in a meeting with the delegation of the Committee of Pro Chancellors of State Universities in Nigeria, COPSUN, in Abuja.

The registrar was said to have condemned outrightly the illegal admissions practice in some universities across the country. This is made known in the details of the meeting published in the board’s bulletin.

“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 is an embarrassment and a disservice to the nation,” he said.

The registrar further charged COPSUN to ensure that they clamp down on underhand admissions, which is detrimental to the system and disadvantageous to the image of the country.

NaijaOnPoint.com.ng (NOP) reports that the examination body had earlier warned candidates to refrain from accepting admissions offered without full academic participation.

Recall that the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education had in December 2023 ordered JAMB to present the list of tertiary institutions that had conducted irregular admissions.