The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has accused some tertiary institutions of engaging in illegal admissions.
The JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, levelled the allegation against the institutions on Thursday during an admission policy meeting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The institutions he named include the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), National Open University (NOUN), Kwara State University (KWASU), and Delta State University (DELSU).
The policy meeting, convened by JAMB, is a forum for critical stakeholders in the admission processes into tertiary institutions in the country, including university vice-chancellors and registrars, rectors and registrars of polytechnics, provosts, and registrars of colleges of education, and principal officers of monotechnics.
Waiver
Mr Oloyede disclosed that the Nigerian government had already granted waivers to about one million candidates allegedly illegally admitted by these…