Over one million students were admitted illegally by some tertiary institutions in the country, Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said yesterday.
Prof. Oloyede stated this at the ongoing policy meeting on the 2023/2024 admissions. The policy meeting was attended by heads of tertiary institutions and other stakeholders.
According to Oloyede, the Board has been able to regularise 600 of the illegal admissions. He added that many of the students with illegal admissions don’t have the basic qualifications to be admitted into the course they registered to study.
“Over one million students were admitted illegally. We registered about 600 of them because a lot of them don’t have the basic qualifications,” Prof. Oloyede said.
