The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has kicked towards the purported admission of candidates into the Regulation School of Lead Metropolis College, Ibadan, saying the admissions weren’t provided by the board.
In an announcement on Thursday, signed by JAMB’s Public Communications Advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, the board lamented that the admissions have been carried out regardless of a five-year suspension of the college’s Regulation programme.
He mentioned the admissions weren’t performed by the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), reiterating that any admission not processed by CAPS was void and couldn’t be recognised by the board.
The assertion learn: “The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been inundated with accusations of dereliction relating to the purported admission of candidates into the Regulation School of Lead Metropolis College regardless of its suspension for five years.
“The Board unequivocally states that the mentioned admissions weren’t performed by the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), the one platform accredited for the processing of admissions into tertiary establishments in Nigeria. Consequently, such admissions are void as they’re unknown to the Board.
“The establishment is just not authorised to confess candidates into the programme till the expiration of the suspension.
“This unhappy improvement as soon as once more underscores the significance of heeding the Board’s repeated and unequivocal recommendation to candidates to not settle for any supply of admission outdoors CAPS as admission that isn’t processed and accredited on CAPS is faux.
“Candidates admitted by such irregular means haven’t any respectable declare as they’re thought-about complicit.
“For the umpteenth time, the Board strongly advises potential candidates, in their very own curiosity, to not settle for any admission not processed by CAPS, because the Board will neither recognise nor condone such admissions.
“Candidates who’ve been provided admission outdoors CAPS are due to this fact suggested to ignore such provides and begin the method of acquiring the following UTME software to be able to sit for the examination and pursue respectable admission by the suitable channels. Any admission provided outdoors CAPS is nothing greater than an train in futility.
“The Board is conscious of sure universities which might be circumventing the principles by making an attempt to switch illegally admitted candidates to different universities by inter-university switch.
“Such would additionally not work as JAMB is not going to endorse any such inter-university switch with out preliminary admission on CAPS. For a switch to be legitimate, the candidate should have been validly admitted within the first occasion.
“JAMB emphasises that it’s going to discharge its duty in accordance with the legal guidelines, guidelines and laws.”