Segun Aina, registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has urged universities to desist from issuing admission letters to candidates seeking admissions into their various institutions, saying it is not within their mandate to do so.
Aina spoke when he received a delegation from the Veritas University, Bwari, Abuja, which paid him a courtesy visit on Thursday, October 15, in his office.
According to the registrar, JAMB is the only body statutorily empowered to issue official admission letters to candidates seeking entry into all tertiary institutions in Nigeria, including universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.
He noted that candidates often believe admission letters issued by institutions are genuine simply because they appear to emanate from the institutions.
He charged universities guilty of this ignoble act to desist adding that they also have the responsibility of ensuring that those candidates obtain the right documents from the Board.
The registrar recalled that federal ministry of education had explicitly mandated that all admissions be conducted through the central admissions processing system (CAPS), adding that anything done contrary to that “is illegal and invalid”.
“As a consequence, no institution is permitted to substitute its own letters for the official JAMB admission letter issued by the board after a candidate had accepted his admission on CAPS,” Aina said.
He added that it is only admission offered through CAPS that is recognised and would be accepted for purpose of mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), among others.
