The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said at least 1,665 fake A-level results were uncovered during the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise.
The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede on Tuesday in Abuja said, “Out of this figure, 397 were from Colleges of Education, 453 were university diplomas, and the rest were other A’level certificates.
Oloyede who explained that in the past the screening and due diligence of candidates applying for DE were usually carried out by the awarding institutions, noted that JAMB was shocked by the revelations from Bayero University, Kano (BUK) where out of the 148 Direct Entry applications to the institution, only six of the certificates forwarded for processing were genuine.
According to him, the discovery of the fraud in BUK had prompted the meeting of critical stakeholders to chart ways of combating the menace.
While stating that the verification platform was reliable and user-friendly as it only takes five minutes to verify any given certificate, Oloyede added that in order to underscore the importance attached to the exercise, the board has put in place a “No verification, No admission” policy.
