No Waec Result, No Admission-JAMB Boss.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)

has said it would demand the records of ordinary and
advanced level results of candidates recommended by tertiary
institutions before offering them admission.
The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, stated this
yesterday during this year’s meeting on admissions exercise
for the Innovative Enterprise Institutions in Abuja.
Oloyede insisted that institutions must maintain the standard
set by the board beginning from this year’s admission.
He said: “From this year now we are demanding records of
the O levels of the candidates you are admitting and that is
for the first time.
“When you recommend a person for admission we want to
see what qualification does he or she possess not just telling
me that he or she scored 300 in UTME. What of the real
qualification?
“It used to be left to the discretion of the institutions. We are
saying the standard must be maintained.”
The Registrar said the agency would stop the regularisation of
all forms of illegal admissions conducted by tertiary
institutions from this year.
According to him, any admission done under the table would
not be regularised, warning candidates and tertiary institutions
to desist from engaging in any form of illegal admission.
The registrar said: “Illegal admission used to go on and we are
saying part of our effort is to make sure we put a stop to
illegal admission.
“Illegal admission in terms of people not even taking the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at all not to
talk of scoring zero.
“Illegal admission by even admitting people who do not have
the requisite Ordinary Level (O’Level) because before now
JAMB does not have the record of their O’Level…”