JAMB Tells Varsities: Stop Issuing Admission Letters

Nigerian universities have been asked to stop issuing admission letters to candidates seeking admission into their various institutions. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB insists that such act was not within their mandate. adsbygoogle || []).push({});

Stating this was JAMB registrar, Prof. Segun Aina, while receiving a delegation from Veritas University, Bwari, Abuja, which paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

The registrar pointed out that JAMB is the only body statutorily empowered to issue official admission letters to candidates seeking entry into all tertiary institutions in Nigeria, including universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.

Prof. Aina stated that the irony of the situation is that once candidates see a document as emanating from an institution purporting to offer them admission, they believe that it is real.

He, therefore, charged universities guilty of this ignoble act to desist, adding that they also have the responsibility of ensuring that those candidates obtain the right documents from the board.

Furthermore, he referenced the Federal Ministry of Education’s explicit stand that all admissions be conducted through the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) and that anything done contrary to that is illegal and invalid.

As a result, no institution is permitted to substitute its own letters for the official JAMB admission letter issued by the board after a candidate had accepted his admission on CAPS.

He added that it is only admission offered through this platform is recognised and would be accepted for the purpose of mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), among others.