The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged universities to desist from issuing admission letters to candidates seeking admission into their institutions, saying it is not within their mandate to do so.
The Registrar, Prof. Segun Aina, stated this when he received a delegation from Veritas University, Bwari, Abuja, which paid him a courtesy visit to his office recently.
This was disclosed in JAMB’s weekly bulletin released on Monday.
According to the registrar, JAMB is the only body statutorily empowered to issue official admission letters to candidates seeking admission into all tertiary institutions in Nigeria, including universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.
Aina stated that the irony of the situation was that once candidates saw a document purporting to offer them admission from an institution, they believed it was genuine.
He, therefore, charged universities guilty of this ignoble act to desist, adding that they also had the responsibility of ensuring that such candidates obtained the correct documents from the Board.
Furthermore, he recalled that the Federal Ministry of Education had explicitly mandated that all admissions be conducted through the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), and that any action taken contrary to this was illegal and invalid.
Consequently, no institution is permitted to substitute its own letters for the official JAMB admission letter issued by the Board after a candidate has accepted the admission on CAPS.
He added that only admissions offered through the platform are recognised and accepted for mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), among other purposes.
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