JAMB has busted 1,665 fake A’Level Results.
NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it uncovered 1,665 fake A’Level results during last year’s Direct Entry (DE) registration.
The board said it embarked on the results verification to checkmate the endemic corruption and restore integrity to the admission process.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, stated this when he hosted the leadership of the National Association of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students (NANCES) at the board’s headquarters at Bwari in Abuja.
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Oloyede said out of the figure, 397 results were from colleges of education, 453 from university diplomas, and the rest from other A’Level certificates.
The JAMB registrar noted that everyone should be concerned about holding certificates that no one would respect because of the activities of forgers.
He said this was the reason the board was making efforts to safeguard the integrity of the A’Level certificates for getting admission by putting in place measures that would stand the test of time.
In this week’s bulletin released by the board’s spokesperson Fabian Benjamin yesterday in Abuja, Oloyede recalled that when a candidate applied for DE in the past, the board would simply ask awarding institutions to do the necessary screening and due diligence.
The registrar said JAMB was dumbfounded by the startling revelations from Bayero University, Kano (BUK), where out of the 148 Direct Entry applications to the institution, only six had genuine certificates.
He added that it was the discovery of the monumental fraud that prompted the meeting of critical stakeholders to chart ways of combating the menace.
Part of the measures suggested, Oloyede said, was the constitution of an A’Level result verification task force as well as the creation of a common platform for the verification of A’Level results and other certificates.
The JAMB registrar said the platform was reliable and user-friendly, as it only takes five minutes to verify any certificate.
He explained that to underscore the importance attached to the exercise, the board had put in place a “no verification, no admission” policy.
Listing 15 institutions that have not sufficiently complied with verification requests from the board, Oloyede said the affected institutions, with more than 20 unverified candidates, would have to pre-verify candidates applying with their certificates before they could complete their DE registration process.
According to him, the modification in the ongoing DE registration is that candidates could register while the school verifies them at the backend.
Oloyede said the 15 institutions, which were yet to fully comply, would have to pre-verify holders of their certificates before completing their DE registration.
NANCES President Egunjobi Samuel praised the registrar, particularly for restoring sanity, integrity, and credibility to the nation’s examination and admission processes.
He said the association was at the JAMB headquarters to channel the complaints from its members about the seemingly intractable challenges they were having in the ongoing DE registration as well as ask for more DE registration centres.
Also, NewsOnline Nigeria reports that JAMB has further extended the registration for this year’s DE examination to April 25.
JAMB had earlier fixed March 28 as the deadline for the DE registration, which started on February 28.
The board subsequently extended the deadline to April 11.
But in an X post yesterday, the board said it had extended the deadline to April 25.
