The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has distanced itself from the purported admission of candidates into the Law Faculty of Lead City University, stating that such admissions were not processed through its official platform and are therefore invalid.
In a statement issued by JAMB’s Public Communications Adviser, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the Board said it had been inundated with accusations of negligence over reports that the institution admitted students into its Law programme despite an existing five-year suspension of the faculty.
JAMB clarified that the alleged admissions were not processed through the Central Admissions Processing System, CAPS, the only platform approved for processing admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
According to the Board, any admission conducted outside CAPS is unknown to it and therefore null and void.
The Board further emphasised that Lead City University is not authorised to admit candidates into its Law programme until the expiration of the suspension imposed on the faculty.
JAMB noted that the development underscores its repeated warnings to candidates not to accept offers of admission outside CAPS, stressing that any admission not processed and approved on the platform is fake.
“Candidates admitted through such irregular means have no legitimate claim, as they are considered complicit,” the Board stated.
The examination body advised candidates who may have received such offers to disregard them and instead obtain the next Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, application in order to pursue legitimate admission through the appropriate channels.
JAMB also expressed concern over attempts by some institutions to circumvent the rules by transferring illegally admitted candidates to other universities through inter-university transfer arrangements.
The Board maintained that such efforts would fail, explaining that it would not endorse any inter-university transfer unless the candidate had first secured a valid admission through CAPS.
“For a transfer to be valid, the candidate must have been properly admitted in the first instance,” the statement added.
JAMB reiterated its commitment to enforcing admission regulations and assured that it would continue to discharge its responsibilities strictly in line with established laws, rules, and guidelines governing tertiary education admissions in Nigeria.
