The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned that any admission into First Degree, National Certificate of Education, National Diploma and National Innovative Diploma outside the automated Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) or not on the official letter-headed paper of the Board is null, void and candidates who accept such admissions do so at their own risk.
The Board also warned institutions that admission made outside CAPS would jeopardise the participation of the innocent candidates in the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) mobilisation exercise or any job placement which requires the certification or endorsement of the Board.
“The most unethical and wicked excuse that many of the candidates would drop out within the first year compounds the immorality of the whole exercise,” the board said in its weekly bulletin.
JAMB noted that CAPS is the only credible avenue for admission into undergraduate programmes of all tertiary institutions in the country, but said it had found out that institutions offer admissions to candidates through their portals.
The Board said publishing an admission list prior to its processing on CAPS is improper and a source of confusion and many of such admissions had to be reversed.
“A case in hand is a university which has a quota of 50 for LL.B Programme but went ahead to offer admission and received acceptance fee from 350 LL.B candidates. If the offer had been processed on CAPS, it would not have allowed the abused of quota issued by
the Council of Legal Education.
“The reversal of over 300 candidates is now a subject of litigation between the university and the swindled candidates,” JAMB said.
