THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it uncovered 3,000 Nigerian fake graduates.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who disclosed this at a meeting with the delegation of the Committee of Pro- Chancellors of State Universities in Nigeria (COPSUN), in Abuja, on Wednesday, July 3, condemned illegal admissions practice in some universities across the country.
He stated: “Some ‘graduates’ had never entered the four walls of a university owing to the endemic corruption in the system but the board had documented over 3,000 of such cases.
“Illegal admission of candidates into tertiary institutions is an embarrassment and a disservice to the nation.”
Oloyede urged COPSUN to clamp down on underhand admissions, which he said was detrimental to the system and disadvantageous to the image of the country.
JAMB had earlier warned candidates to refrain from accepting admissions offered without full academic participation.
