The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has issued a stern warning to all tertiary institutions across Nigeria — no matriculation list, no admission approval.
In a decisive move to stamp out the menace of illegal admissions, JAMB announced that it will withhold approval for the 2024 and 2025 academic sessions from any university, polytechnic, or college of education that fails to submit its official matriculation list, as mandated by the Federal Ministry of Education.
Speaking at a strategic meeting with Admission Desk Officers from across the country, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, revealed that several institutions have yet to submit matriculation lists for the 2022 and 2023 academic years. Such institutions, he warned, now risk being blacklisted from future admission processes.
While offering a temporary concession for the 2024 admissions due to ongoing intake exercises in some schools, Oloyede made it clear that once the current cycle concludes, total compliance will be non-negotiable.
> “We will make scapegoats of defaulters,” Oloyede vowed, stressing that sanctions would be both severe and public. “Institutions failing to comply will be summoned, and affiliate institutions will be invited alongside their parent bodies to face appropriate penalties.”
The Registrar further directed that a public notice be placed in major national newspapers to alert all institutions that errant schools will have their admissions summarily disapproved.
Oloyede tasked Admission Desk Officers to enforce the directive rigorously, warning that the era of backdoor admissions is over.
This hardline stance marks yet another step in JAMB’s ongoing reform agenda to restore integrity, transparency, and order to Nigeria’s admission process — ensuring that every student admitted into a tertiary institution is duly registered and recognized.
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