Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Coordinator Ogun State, Abdulhakeem Abdulhameed, has tasked admission officers in tertiary institutions in Ogun state to regularise all their undisclosed admissions within the one-month window of grace provided by the board. He said JAMB is determined to enforce compliance and ensure merit-based admissions after which sanctions will be imposed on non-compliant institutions.
Abdulhameed who spoke on Doing admissions right at a stakeholders’ meeting with admission officers from various institutions at the Redeemer’s College of Technology and Management (RECTEM) in Mowe, Ogun State, stated that the board is not interested in sanction but in doing admissions right.
He however noted that JAMB is determined to eradicate illegal admissions to ensure all admissions are processed through the Central Admission Process System (CAPS).
“We will no longer tolerate admission malpractices. All admissions must be on CAPS. We have automated all our services, and institutions that fail to comply will face severe sanctions from the Minister of Education.
“All admissions that are not on CAPS are illegal admissions. So in order to prevent candidates from doing all these things, a grace of a month was given to institutions to compile all other undisclosed and disclose it and see how best it can be resolved, he said adding that the essence of the meeting is to see how best ‘we can interpret those policies on admission.
