10,378 DE students’ admission suspended by JAMB due to unsuccessful verification

10,378 students who took the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s Direct Entry exam in 2023 now have their admission status suspended since their A-level issuing institution failed to submit to JAMB a verification report.

A guide for applicants hoping to get admitted through Direct Entry for the 2023–2024 academic year was released by JAMB in February 2023.

The advice, according to JAMB, was primarily intended to address the problem of applicants using false or unacceptable A-level certificates to be admitted.

Recently, JAMB stressed that it would not accept students with unverified certificates and advised the candidates to get in touch with their previous institutions as soon as possible to get their certificates confirmed.

Additionally, JAMB said that it had written to every tertiary institution that issued certificates and that while most of them had responded positively, some had not.

According to findings, JAMB decided to suspend the admission of 10,378 applicants after more than 240 institutions—mostly polytechnics and colleges of education—failed to provide verification reports of the applicants’ A-level results.

A report by JAMB, which was obtained in Abuja, said, “The verification exercises conducted by the Nigeria Post-secondary Education Data System have compelled the board to introduce further steps to address the series of sharp practices and inconsistencies in the ongoing 2023 DE admission exercise.”

JAMB noted that as part of efforts to arrest these series of unwholesome practices, “The NIPEDS has written to all tertiary institutions in the country to facilitate the verification of the A-level certificates of their respective students. While a significant number of these institutions have responded and had their students’ A-level certificates verified and the admissions of their students consequently processed, NIPEDS has yet to receive any response from many institutions.

In effect, all such candidates holding the certificates of these institutions would not be considered for admission until they are verified.”

Analysis of the list of affected institutions by our correspondent puts some of the institutions with the highest number of unverified A-level results by candidates as follows, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1,314; Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, 611; Aminu Saleh College of Education 269; College of Education, Minna, 248; Federal College of Education, Okene, 164; Federal College of Education, Kotangora 164; Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, 383 candidates among others.