The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed that more than one million students have been illegally accepted into various tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
Speaking on Thursday at the ongoing policy meeting for the 2023/2024 admissions in Abuja, Oloyede highlighted the widespread issue.
This policy meeting, which includes heads of tertiary institutions and other stakeholders, is critical for setting admissions standards for the nation’s higher education institutions.
Oloyede revealed that the Board has managed to regularize the admissions of 600,000 of these students.
He pointed out that many of the students admitted illegally do not meet the basic qualifications for the courses they registered to study.
“Over 1 million students were admitted illegally,” Oloyede said.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, has declared that candidates below the age of eighteen would no longer be granted admission to tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
The Minister stated this while speaking on Thursday at the 2024 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting in Abuja.
According to the Minister, this decision is in line with Nigeria’s law, which prohibits the admission of underage students to tertiary institutions.
He emphasized that no one should recommend anyone less than 18 years old for admission, stressing that this guideline must be strictly followed.
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