The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) discovered at least 1,665 fake A’level results during the Direct Entry registration process.
According to the board’s weekly bulletin, which was made available to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, provided the data when he met with representatives from the National Association of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students in his office.
National Growth LS He added that the A’level results verification was necessary due to the system’s widespread corruption and the need to restore the admission process’s integrity.
According to him, 397 of the false results were from colleges of education, 453 were university diplomas, and the remaining were for other A’level certificates.
Oloyede stated that institutions must take steps to ensure the integrity of their certifications, and that JAMB will continue to scrutinise the certificates using time-tested methods.
The registrar noted that in the past, when a candidate filed for Direct Entry, the Board merely asked granting institutions to conduct the requisite screening and due diligence.
He did, however, state that JAMB was taken aback by the number of results from Bayero University Kano, where only six of the 148 Direct Entry applications received for processing were authentic.
The registrar went on to say that the discovery of this mammoth scam triggered a meeting of essential stakeholders to devise strategies for tackling the issue.
Part of the measures suggested, he said, was the constitution of an A’level result verification task force as well as the creation of a common platform for the verification of A’level results and certificates.
He said the platform was reliable and user-friendly as it only took five minutes to verify any certificate. Oloyede also disclosed that the board had adopted “No verification, No admission” policy.
The registrar said 15 institutions had not sufficiently complied with the verification requests from the board, adding that more than 20 unverified candidates were affected.
He said that the board would have to pre-verify candidates applying with the certificates of the 15 institutions before they could complete their DE registration process.
According to him, in the ongoing DE registration, candidates could go ahead and register while the school verify them at the backend.
He, however, declared that the 15 institutions, which were yet to fully comply, would have to pre-verify holders of their certificates before they complete registration process