JAMB reveals those who will get admission in 2017/2018 session

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Thursday, said

only candidates who meet the O' level and A' level requirements and

other criteria set by institutions would be offered admission in

2017/2018.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, stated this at a Training and

Sensitization Forum on Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) for

admission offers, candidates and stakeholders on in Abuja.

Prof. Oloyede said: "Scoring higher than the cut-off mark does not

guarantee admission but makes the candidate eligible for admission

consideration. It is not UTME that qualifies the person. It is O

level, A level that qualifies a person for admission.

"That is why you can go from here to UK, you can go to Ghana, Uganda,

Republic of Benin, nobody ask you of your UTME, they ask for your O

level because by law it is the school cert that qualifies you not

JAMB," he said.

He also warned that JAMB will not tolerate illegal admissions by any

higher institution.

The body also stated that students admitted illegally won't be

regularised anymore.

"We know that we have abused the process. What we have been doing is

to send N5,000 each to JAMB in the name of regularization without

capturing their picture, without capturing anything. You pay N5,000

and then they are regularized.

"We have not stopped to do backlog but from 2016 upward we will not

allow anybody to do backdoor admission. Anybody that is not properly

admitted cannot benefit from regularization.

"You cannot admit anybody under the table. Let us know your problem

and let us collectively solve the problem so that you do not need to

do such thing.

"We don't have accurate data because what we have on record is

different from real life. We cannot continue to do that. We will

protest to the whole world that we have 500 students in our

institutions but in reality they are about 1 million but 500,000

thousand have been admitted illegally," Oloyede remarked.