By Omowumi Omotosho
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that over one million students were admitted illegally by some tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede made this revelation on Thursday in Abuja during the ongoing policy meeting on 2023/2024 admissions.
The policy meeting, attended by heads of tertiary institutions and other stakeholders, is a crucial platform for setting the tone for admissions into higher education institutions in the country.
According to the JAMB boss, the Board has been able to regularize 600 of the illegally admitted students. He added that many of these students lack the basic qualifications required for the courses they registered to study.
“Over 1 million students were admitted illegally. We registered about 600 of them because a lot of them don’t have the basic qualifications,” Oloyede said.
