The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has uncovered 3,000 fake graduates who never set foot within the four walls of a classroom.
The board also decried the issue of illegal admissions by some institutions which, it said, had remained a source of embarrassment to the country.
JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in a report published in the board’s bulletin. According to the bulletin, Oloyede disclosed this during a meeting with the leadership of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities.
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.