The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has accused some tertiary educational institutions in the nation of choosing “crooked options” by withholding admission offers made to applicants.
According to JAMB’s announcement in 2021, tertiary institutions had made 706,189 undeclared admission offers to applicants.
“It is disheartening today to see some institutions opting for the crooked option that lacks transparency or accountability through undisclosed admission offers,” wrote Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of JAMB, in the board’s most recent bulletin.
The bulletin claims that Oloyede made the statement while being represented by Babatunde Jacob, the JAMB State Coordinator for Osun State, at the inaugural graduation of the Department of Nursing Education at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Ile-Ife, Osun State.
“The primary goal of implementing the Central Admissions Processing System in 2017 was to eliminate pre-existing procedures in admission processes.” Following the noble intervention of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, the board agreed to retroactively condone candidates who were offered secret admission by some tertiary institutions from 2017 to 2021,” he added.
He therefore urged the concerned institutions to stop using them and adhere to the board’s order that all admissions be processed through CAPS.