The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has identified 88 institutions in the country that conducted admissions outside of the Central Admissions Processing System popularly referred to as CAPS.
The Board made the revelation following analysis of data on the admissions conducted for the 2022/2023 admission session in Nigerian universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions.
Making the revelation, JAMB, insisted that admissions conducted outside CAPS are illegal, null and void.
Recall that JAMB had in 2017 introduced the Central Admissions Processing System. This is where all tertiary institutions in the country upload the admission status of candidates offered admission in the institutions.
“CAPS has centralized and automated admission processes between candidates and their chosen tertiary institutions.
However, in 2020, JAMB warned institutions to stop offering admissions to candidates through their own portals.
The Board warned that the practice was a flagrant abuse of the automated Central Admissions Processing System.
In April 2024, the Board noted that it would no longer condone illegal admissions conducted outside of the CAPS.
The board in a bulletin warned candidates to desist from accepting admissions offered by the institutions without going through it.
In the statement titled, ‘Cessation of illegal/irregular admission’, JAMB reiterated that all applications of admissions to first degree, national diploma, national innovation diploma and the Nigeria Certificate in Education into full-time, distance learning, part-time, outreach, sandwich, etc., must be processed only through JAMB.
In a report tagged, ‘Compiled assessment of institutions on compliance with the 2022/2023 admission guidelines’, the Board noted that it scored institutions who complied fully with admission guidelines 10 points. Those with partial compliance, 5 points, while those institutions who failed to comply were awarded zero point.
Under the section for the conduct of full admissions on CAPS, IVNTV NEWS observed that 88 institutions failed to comply.
Some of the observed institutions included the University of Uyo, University of Abuja, Olabisi Onabanjo University, and Coal City University. Also included are Yaba College of Technology, Plateau State University, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Federal University of Technology Owerri.
Others are Crawford University, Crescent University, Ebonyi State University, Rhema University, Borno State University, Chrisland University and Federal Polytechnic, Nekede. Alvan Ikoku College of Education, and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu University, were also found on the list.
source: PUNCH
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