The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disassociated itself from the purported admission of candidates into the Law Faculty of Lead City University, insisting that the institution remains under a five-year suspension from admitting students into the programme.
In a statement issued by JAMB’s Public Communications Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, the Board said the admissions were not processed through the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), the only approved platform for processing admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
According to the Board, any admission that does not pass through CAPS is invalid and unknown to JAMB.
“The institution is not authorised to admit candidates into the programme until the expiration of the suspension,” the statement said.
JAMB noted that the development underscores its repeated warning to candidates not to accept any offer of admission outside CAPS, stressing that admissions not processed and approved on the platform are fake.
The Board warned that candidates admitted through such irregular means have no legitimate claim to the admission, as they are deemed complicit in the process.
JAMB therefore advised prospective candidates not to accept admissions outside CAPS, emphasising that it would neither recognise nor condone such offers.
It urged candidates who may have received such offers to disregard them and instead obtain the next UTME application in order to sit for the examination and pursue legitimate admission through the appropriate channels.
The Board also said it was aware of attempts by some universities to circumvent regulations by transferring illegally admitted candidates to other institutions through inter-university transfers.
However, JAMB stressed that such moves would fail because it would not approve any inter-university transfer that did not originate from a valid admission processed through CAPS.
“For a transfer to be valid, the candidate must have been legitimately admitted in the first instance,” the Board stated.
JAMB reaffirmed its commitment to enforcing the rules and regulations guiding admissions into tertiary institutions across Nigeria.
