CAPS remains the only credible avenue for admission-JAMB

Opeyemi Adelere

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates against offers of admission not issued on its official letter headed paper.

JAMB, in its weekly bulletin, issued by its Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, on Monday in Abuja said admission not conducted using its automated Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) will be rendered null and void.

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According to the board, admission conducted outside of CAPS carries some grave consequences such as denial of candidate to participate in the mandatory National Youth Service Corps mobilisation exercise and not getting certificate or endorsement of the board for job seeking purposes.

The board said it was aware of offers of admissions given on some institutions’ portals, adding that such admission would not gain its recognition.

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JAMB said institutions engaging in such are trying to avoid the just and equitable process, which the CAPS system is set to establish.

“CAPS remains the only valid avenue for the offer of admission into undergraduate programmes of all tertiary institutions across the nation and the board is not in support of any act of flagrant abuse of the automated Central Admission Processing System (CAPS).

The board stated that any candidate, who accepts any offer of admission on terms contrary to the directive given by the board, does so at his or her own risk.

JAMB gave an instance of a university with 50 quotas for LL.B programme but which offered admission and received acceptance fee from 350 LL.B candidates, subjecting over 300 candidates to some unethical subsequent withdrawal from school. “If the offer had been processed on CAPS, there would not have been an abuse of quota issued by the Council of Legal Education,” it explained.

It said, “Institutions cannot publish any admission list which has not been approved on CAPS. Therefore publishing an admission list prior to its processing on CAPS is improper and a source of confusion as many of such admissions were found to be inappropriate and had to be reversed.”