Abuja – The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said that the board will soon start the process of clearing illegal 706,189 admissions conducted by tertiary institutions across the country.
Oloyede who spoke in Abuja recently said that the decision was aimed at saving the future of the affected students and lay the worries of their parents to a permanent rest .
According to him, the students have the requisite qualifications but were only admitted illegally by some universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other tertiary institutions.
He said that JAMB was taken steps to put a halt to the problem of illegal admission to further sanitise the system.
“We want to continue the campaign to discourage those who are committing such illegal action to stop doing such,” Oloyede said.
He said the registration process for the 2022 UTME, will be cashless, disclosing that CBT centres would also be stopped from selling e-PINs to stop extortion.
“We want to put a stop to that, we have intensified monitoring but part of what we are doing is to ensure we protect the students against this extortion.
” And that is why we are asking that the candidates pay through us and we will pay the centres their service charge.
”With this, anybody who collects money from the centre would have been seen to have done a wrong thing because you are not supposed to collect any money,” Oloyede explained. (Vitalnews)
