JAMB said its advice to students was predicated on a series
of complaints by students that it was delaying their call to the mandatory
National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, through delay in issuance of their
admission letters.
JAMB said in a statement by its Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin,
Thursday, that issuance of admission letters to students could only be
facilitated by schools through upload of students’ particulars.
The statement read thus: “The attention of the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been drawn to complaints by some
candidates on their inability to obtain their admission letters which would
qualify them to proceed on the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) or obtain exemption letters as the case may be.
“This phenomenon is especially true of products of
undisclosed illegal institutional admissions conducted outside the Central
Admissions Processing System (CAPS) between 2017 and 2020.
“The series of complaints emanated from the frustrations of
these set of students who are expressing anger at the lack of formal
recognition of their degrees by relevant authorities.
“Consequently, the Hon. Minister of Education, Malam Adamu
Adamu, had out of compassion, approved a final condonement of these underhand
admissions.
“It should be recalled that based on that act of
magnanimity, the Board had placed relevant advertisements in three national
dailies (Blueprint, Guardian and Vanguard) of 24th November 2021.
“The same notice was featured on the Board’s website coupled
with an easy-to-use Advisory issued to all institutions of higher learning to
guide them on how these candidates could be redeemed.
“Based on available data close to one million undisclosed
illegal institutional admissions were disclosed so far. What is, however,
surprising is that, as of today, less than 5% of such students’ details had
been uploaded on the Board portal by the institutions as required.
”It is even more egregious to note that even among the few
that had been uploaded by the schools on the Board portal many of the schools
had not correctly keyed in their details.
“The Board, therefore, uses this medium to appeal to
institutions to immediately upload appropriately the matriculation numbers,
names, disciplines, year of graduation and other necessary details of the candidates
for the Board to process the candidates’ condonement applications.
“The Board reiterates that it is incumbent on the
institutions to correctly key in the details of the candidates as illustrated
on the advisory issued to institutions, advertised in the dailies and on the
Board’s website for the prompt processing of candidates retroactive admission
letters for them to obtain necessary clearance for their hitherto underhand
admissions.”
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