In February 2023, JAMB issued an advisory to guide
candidates seeking to gain admissions through Direct Entry in the 2023/2024
academic session.
According to JAMB, the advisory was basically to address the
issue of candidates using unacceptable or forged A-level certificates/
qualifications to gain admission.
Recently, JAMB advised the candidates to contact their
former institutions as soon as possible to have their certificates verified,
stressing that it would not accept students with unverified certificates.
JAMB also stated that it had written to all tertiary
institutions that issued certificates and that a substantial number of them had
answered positively, but others had not.
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Findings on Monday revealed that JAMB had decided to suspend
the admission of 10,378 candidates following the failure of over 240
institutions, comprising majorly of polytechnics and colleges of education, to
send verification reports of A-level results of the admission seekers.
A report by JAMB,
which our correspondent obtained in Abuja, said, “The verification
exercises conducted by the Nigeria Post-secondary Education Data System have
compelled the board to introduce further steps to address the series of sharp
practices and inconsistencies in the ongoing 2023 DE admission exercise.”
JAMB noted that as part of efforts to arrest these series of
unwholesome practices, “The NIPEDS has written to all tertiary institutions in
the country to facilitate the verification of the A-level certificates of their
respective students. While a significant number of these institutions have
responded and had their students’ A-level certificates verified and the
admissions of their students consequently processed, NIPEDS has yet to receive
any response from many institutions.
“In effect, all such candidates holding the certificates of
these institutions would not be considered for admission until they are
verified.”
Analysis of the list of affected institutions by our
correspondent puts some of the institutions with the highest number of
unverified A-level results by candidates as follows, Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria, 1,314; Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, 611; Aminu Saleh College
of Education 269; College of Education, Minna, 248; Federal College of
Education, Okene, 164; Federal College of Education, Kotangora 164; Federal
College of Education, Abeokuta, 383 candidates among others.