JAMB Blocks Lead City Law Intake Over CAPS Error

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cancelled the purported admission of candidates into the Law programme of Lead City University, Ibadan, after discovering that the admissions were processed outside its mandatory Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).

The Board said the admissions did not follow the approved centralised platform used for regulating placements into tertiary institutions, stressing that any admission conducted outside CAPS is illegal and cannot be recognised.

Consequently, it said such admissions are void as they are unknown to the Board.

A press statement signed by Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Public Communications Adviser, stated that the institution is not authorised to admit candidates into the programme until the expiration of the suspension.

“This sad development once again underscores the importance of heeding the Board’s repeated and unequivocal advice to candidates not to accept any offer of admission outside CAPS, as any admission not processed and approved on CAPS is fake.

“Candidates admitted through such irregular means have no legitimate claim, as they are considered complicit.

“For the umpteenth time, the Board strongly advises prospective candidates, in their own interest, not to accept any admission not processed through CAPS, as the Board will neither recognise nor condone such admissions,” it said.

The Board also advised candidates who have been offered admission outside CAPS to disregard such offers and commence the process of obtaining the next UTME application in order to sit for the examination and pursue legitimate admission through the appropriate channels.

“Any admission offered outside CAPS is nothing more than an exercise in futility.
“The Board is aware of certain universities that are circumventing the rules by attempting to transfer illegally admitted candidates to other universities through inter-university transfer.

“Such will also not work, as JAMB will not endorse any such inter-university transfer without initial admission on CAPS. For a transfer to be valid, the candidate must have been validly admitted in the first instance,” it added.