The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is reportedly set to clear 4,845 individuals whose admission statuses have hindered their National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) registration.
This includes Jamiu Basola, a graduate of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), whose admission was flagged as fake by JAMB.
Basola and FUTA had consistently maintained the authenticity of his admission, with the university writing to JAMB to confirm his status.
Premium Times reports that Basola and 12 other candidates flagged due to omissions on their portals would be asked to correct the discrepancies.
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These 13 candidates, it is understood, are part of 4,845 admissions previously regularised by JAMB but were flagged due to omissions noticed on their portals.
The other affected institutions include Bayero University Kano, 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.
Basola, who graduated from FUTA’s civil and environmental engineering department in December 2024, acknowledged in a February 2025 complaint to JAMB that he had failed to print his original JAMB result slip.
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In 2017, JAMB introduced the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) to streamline admissions.
Admissions offered outside CAPS were deemed “undisclosed” or “illegal”.
Between 2017 and 2020, JAMB regularised such admissions under a waiver from the then minister of education.
However, all admissions offered outside CAPS since 2020 have now been deemed illegal and cannot be regularised.
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