The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it has given a grace period of three months to 366 institutions found to have offered illegal admissions to regularise the status of the affected students.
It was learnt that each of the affected students in the institutions would have to pay N5,000 each as a penalty.
the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, had during a policy meeting with stakeholders in Abuja announced that no fewer than 706,189 illegal admissions were given out by some institutions to unsuspecting members of the public.
the spokesperson of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, had also added that the board would no longer condone the issue of illegal admissions.
“Only the candidates declared by the institutions are to visit JAMB’s office and complete the appropriate form online after paying the prescribed fee, that is the application fee of N4,000 only is paid by those without JAMB registration number for the year and N5,000 penalty fee paid by every candidate involved.
“The board shall not extend the grace period granted to each institution. Any candidate that does not complete the process within the allotted (two months) grace period loses the remedial opportunity”.
