The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has uncovered 3,000 fake graduates who have never been to a formal learning environment.
JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in a report published in the board’s bulletin, which was made available to newsmen in Abuja.
According to the bulletin, Oloyede disclosed this during a meeting with the leadership of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities.
The board also decried the issue of illegal admissions by some institutions which, it said, had remained a source of embarrassment to the country.
The House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education, in December 2023, ordered the JAMB to present a list of tertiary institutions that had conducted irregular and illegal admissions.
The examination body had earlier warned candidates to desist from accepting admissions offered by such institutions without full academic participation.
In the statement titled, “Cessation of illegal/irregular admission,” JAMB reiterated that all applications of admissions to first degree, national diploma, national innovation diploma and the Nigeria certificate in education into full-time, distance learning, part-time, outreach, sandwich, etc, must be processed only through JAMB.