Mr Basola and FUTA had lodged complaints with JAMB after the board repeatedly flagged his admission as “fake” whenever he attempted to register for NYSC.
Both the university and the graduate maintained that the admission was valid, with FUTA confirming that it had officially communicated with JAMB to verify Mr Basola’s admission.
It has now been gathered that the board is close to resolving the case of Mr Basola and thousands of others experiencing similar difficulties.
A source familiar with the issue disclosed that Mr Basola, along with 12 other candidates facing similar problems, would be required to make certain corrections that may have contributed to the discrepancies seen on their JAMB portals.
These 13 candidates are part of the 4,845 admissions that were regularised by JAMB but later flagged due to omissions detected on their records, the source explained.
The remaining affected candidates include two from Bayero University, Kano (BUK), and one each from the University of Ilorin, Ekiti State University, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ben Idahosa University, Obong University, Yaba College of Technology, Osun State Polytechnic, and Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri.
The specific issues concerning Mr Basola’s admission and those of the 12 other individuals have not been explicitly stated.
However, in a complaint filed at the JAMB Support Centre on 10 February 2025, which was reviewed on Saturday, Mr Basola admitted that he failed to print his original JAMB result slip — a document that might have helped confirm his admission status.
“I acknowledge that this oversight may have contributed to the issue at hand,” he wrote, while insisting that he had been genuinely admitted and had completed his studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at FUTA in December 2024.
Mr Basola’s name was marked as “fake” on the JAMB matriculation list, which disqualified him from participating in NYSC mobilisation. Despite submitting several supporting documents—including his JAMB admission letter, UTME result, WAEC certificate, and FUTA admission letter—the issue remained unresolved for several months.
Mr Basola stated on Sunday that he no longer believes his failure to print the JAMB result slip was the cause of the problem.
According to the source, JAMB has received over 17,000 admission-related complaints from across the country and has thoroughly reviewed them.
As part of the review, the board recently cleared 6,908 candidates last month. It also found that 5,669 of the cases were confirmed to be outright fraudulent, with some of the fraudulent entries currently under investigation or legal prosecution.
To streamline the admission process in 2017, JAMB introduced the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), through which all tertiary institutions are required to process and offer admissions to candidates.
Admissions processed outside the CAPS system are categorised by JAMB as undisclosed or illegal admissions.
For the initial three years (2017–2020), JAMB permitted universities to regularise such admissions under a waiver granted by the former Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.
During this regularisation period, the board identified and flagged 13 candidates — including Mr Basola — due to certain missing or incorrect data.
However, any admission offered outside of CAPS since 2020 is now deemed illegal and is no longer eligible for regularisation.
