SHADY ADMISSION: JAMB READY TO BATTLE NIGERIA UNIVERSITIES.
Ahead of the 2026 higher institution’s admission exercise, the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sent a strong warning to all Nigerian Universities over some irregularities discovered by the board during the last admission exercise.
This was made known in a bulletin recently released by the board.Jamb, through the bulletin disclosed that some institutions in Nigeria favoured and gave more consideration to candidates with low grade at the detriment of candidates with higher scores.
“The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is using this medium to call on tertiary institutions to reverse admissions where high-ranking candidates were bypassed in favour of lower-ranked candidates”
JAMB instructed all institutions to strictly abide by the established guidelines guiding the admission of candidates into higher institution of learning, adding that any institution that fail to apply the generally approved due process of admission exercise will face serious sanction.
“The admission process operates on a three-tier policy of Merit, Catchment Area, and Educationally Less Developed States (ELDS). Each tier is guided strictly by ranking(Merit), such that candidates with higher grades must be selected first, followed by others in descending order
“Any situation in which a better-ranked candidate is skipped for a lower-ranked candidate under any of these categories will not be tolerated by the Board.”
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