JAMB voids admission into Lead varsity law faculty

From Fred Ezeh, Abuja

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), yesterday, voided the recent admission exercise into the Law Faculty of Lead  City University, a private university located in Ibadan, Oyo State.

JAMB’s Public Communications Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in a statement, said JAMB had been inundated with accusations of wilful neglect of duty regarding the purported admission of candidates into the Law Faculty of Lead City University.

Dr. Fabian first confirmed that the school was serving a five years admission ban slammed by the Council for Legal Education, hence not qualified to admit new students into the Faculty of Law.

Secondly, he noted that the said admissions were never conducted through the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), which is the only platform approved for the processing of admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria, hence such admissions are void as they are unknown to the Board.

He advised prospective candidates, in their own interest, not to accept any admission not processed through CAPS, as the Board would neither recognise nor condone such admissions.

“This sad development once again underscores the importance of heeding the Board’s repeated and unequivocal advice to candidates not to accept any offer of admission outside CAPS as admission that is not processed and approved on CAPS is fake.

“Any admission offered outside CAPS is nothing but an exercise in futility. Candidates admitted through such irregular means have no legitimate claim as they are considered complicit,” he added.

Dr. Benjamin confirmed that JAMB was aware of some universities that were circumventing the rules by attempting to transfer illegally admitted candidates to other universities through inter-university transfer.

He insisted that such would also not work as JAMB would not endorse any of such inter-university transfer without initial admission to CAPS. “For a transfer to be valid, the candidate must have been validly admitted in the first instance.”

He thus advised candidates who have been offered admission outside CAPS to disregard such offers and commence the process of obtaining the next UTME application in order to sit for the examination and pursue legitimate admission through the appropriate channels.