Janet Samuel, Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that it has uncovered at least 1,665 fake A’level results during the 2023 Direct Entry registration exercise.
The board added that systemic corruption was a defining feature of the A-level results verification regime.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede revealed these.When he hosted the National Association of Nigerian Colleges of Education Students’ leadership in his office on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said, “Out of this figure, 397 were from Colleges of Education, 453 were university diplomas, and the rest were other A’level certificates.
“It should be of grave concern if no one respects the certificate one is holding; hence, there is a need to safeguard the integrity of A’level certificates that are used to secure admission through measures that would stand the test of time.”
The registrar recalled that in the past, the board would only request that awarding institutions carry out the required screening and due diligence when a candidate applied for Direct Entry.
He claimed that the information from Bayero University, Kano, which showed that only six of the 148 Direct Entry applications submitted to the school were valid, astounded JAMB.
The registrar recalled that in the past, the board would only request that awarding institutions carry out the required screening and due diligence when a candidate applied for DE.
He claimed that the information from Bayero University, Kano, which showed that only six of the 148 Direct Entry applications submitted to the school were valid, astounded JAMB.
Prof. Oloyede stated that the formation of an A-level result verification task force and the development of a common platform for the verification of A-level results and certificates were among the recommended measures. He claimed that because it only takes five minutes to verify any given certificate, the platform was dependable and easy to use.
He also revealed that the board has implemented a “No verification, No admission” policy to emphasize the significance of the exercise.
According to him, the affected institutions, which had more than 20 unverified candidates, would have to pre-verify candidates applying with their certificates before they could finish their DE registration process, while listing 15 institutions that had not complied with the board’s requests for verification in a sufficient manner.
The registrar reports that candidates may now register while the school verifies their information in the background. This is an alteration to the current DE registration process.
But he said that the 15 institutions that still hadn’t complied fully would have to pre-verify certificate holders before they could finish registering for DEs.
Ealier, the President of NANCES. Eegunjobi Samuel. Commended the registrar for his great job at restoring sanity, integrity, and credibility to the country’s examination and admission processes.
He revealed that the association was at the JAMB national headquarters to request additional DE registration centers and to voice complaints from its members regarding the seemingly unsolvable difficulties they are facing with the ongoing 2024 DE registration.
