The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) revealed that it discovered no fewer than 1,665 fake A-Level results during the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise. This was made known by the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede when he received the leadership of the National Association of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students (NANCES) in his office on Tuesday, where he stated that the A-Level results verification regime was plagued by corruption associated with the system.
He said, “Out of this figure, 397 were from Colleges of Education, 453 were university diplomas and the rest were other A-Level certificates.
“It should be of grave concern if no one respects the certificate one is holding, hence, there is a need to safeguard the integrity of A-Level certificates that are used to secure admission through measures that would stand the test of time.”
He expressed his shock about the DE applications to Bayero University, Kano, where only 6 certificates out of the total 148 submitted for processing were genuine.
The Registrar said that in the past, if a candidate applied for DE, the Board would direct the awarding institutions to conduct the necessary screening and due diligence.
According to him, the recent discovery of the fake A-Level results prompted the meeting of key stakeholders, with the aim of providing solutions.
Part of solutions suggested includes the establishment of an A-Level result verification task force and the launch of a platform for the verification of A-Level results and certificates. He added that the platform only takes 5 minutes to verify any given certificate because the platform is reliable and user-friendly.
He also disclosed that the Board has put in place a “No verification, No admission” policy.