JAMB to Resolve Admission, NYSC Issues for FUTA Graduate, Over 4,000 Others

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is set to clear 4,845 individuals, including Jamiu Basola, a graduate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), who has been unable to register for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) due to issues with their admission status.

Mr. Basola had faced challenges registering for NYSC as his admission was flagged as “fake” by the JAMB portal, despite claims by both the graduate and FUTA that the admission was valid. The university had formally written to JAMB to confirm his admission.

Sources familiar with the matter disclosed that JAMB is finalising processes to resolve the cases of Mr. Basola and over 4,000 others with similar complaints.

In particular, Mr. Basola and 12 other candidates with related issues will be required to make specific corrections on their JAMB portals to address the discrepancies that triggered the admission challenges.

The 13 affected individuals are among the 4,845 candidates whose admissions were regularised by JAMB but later flagged due to omissions discovered during the review process.

The list of affected candidates includes two from Bayero University, Kano (BUK), and one each from the University of Ilorin, Ekiti State University, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ben Idahosa University, Obong University, Yaba College of Technology, Osun State Polytechnic, and Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri.

The precise nature of the discrepancies affecting these candidates remains unclear. However, in a formal complaint submitted to the JAMB Support Centre on 10 February 2025, Mr. Basola admitted that he did not print his original JAMB result slip a document that could have helped clarify his admission status.

“I acknowledge that this oversight may have contributed to the issue at hand,” he wrote, while affirming that he was properly admitted and completed his studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering at FUTA in December 2024.

Due to the flag on his admission, his name was excluded from the JAMB matriculation list, making him ineligible for NYSC mobilisation. Despite presenting several documents, including his JAMB admission letter, UTME result, WAEC certificate, and university admission letter, the issue remained unresolved for several months.

In a recent update, Mr. Basola expressed doubt that his failure to print the result slip was the root cause of the problem.

According to sources, JAMB has received over 17,000 complaints related to admission issues nationwide. Following investigations, the board has so far cleared 6,908 candidates. Another 5,669 were determined to be outright cases of fraud, with some currently under investigation or prosecution.

CAPS and Admission Regularisation

In 2017, JAMB introduced the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) to streamline admission processes for tertiary institutions. Through CAPS, all admissions must be processed and approved by JAMB.

Admissions granted outside the CAPS framework are regarded by JAMB as undisclosed or illegal.

For the initial three years after its introduction (2017-2020), JAMB, with approval from the former Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, assisted institutions in regularising such admissions through a waiver.

It was during this regularisation exercise that the board flagged 13 candidates, including Mr. Basola, over identified omissions.

However, since 2020, all admissions conducted outside of CAPS are deemed illegal and cannot be regularised.