The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has warned universities against issuing admission letters to candidates, insisting that such act is not within their mandate.
The Registrar, Prof. Segun Aina, stated this when he received a delegation from Veritas University, Bwari, Abuja, which paid him a courtesy visit in his office.
According to the Registrar, JAMB is the only body statutorily empowered to issue official admission letters to candidates seeking entry into all tertiary institutions in Nigeria, including universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.
Prof. Aina stated that once candidates see a document emanating from an institution purporting to offer them admission, they believe it is real.
He therefore charged universities guilty of the act to desist, adding that they also have the responsibility of ensuring that candidates obtain the right documents from the Board.
He recalled that the Federal Ministry of Education had explicitly mandated that all admissions be conducted through the Central Admissions Processing System, CAPS, and that anything done contrary to that is illegal and invalid.
As a consequence, no institution is permitted to substitute its own letters for the official JAMB admission letter issued after a candidate has accepted admission on CAPS.
He added that only admission offered through the platform is recognised and will be accepted for mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, among others.