- JAMB has commenced an investigation into a claim that UNILAG allegedly denied over 2,000 candidates admission
- An on-line medium had reported that UNILAG denied over 2,000 candidates admission over failure to upload O’Stage results on CAPS
- The JAMB spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, acknowledged the board will guarantee no candidate who is licensed to be admitted is denied such admission,
FCT, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reacted to the account that the University of Lagos (UNILAG) allegedly denied 2,000 candidates admission over awaiting results.
Head of Public Affairs and Protocol of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, acknowledged it is candidates and not JAMB that uploads their O’Stage results on the Central Admissions Processing Machine (CAPS) platform, Nigerian Tribune reported.
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Benjamin acknowledged JAMB has also begun an investigation into claims that UNILAG denied over 2,000 candidates admission over the failure to upload their O’Stage results on CAPS.
He made this identified in an announcement in Abuja on Friday, October 20.
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“As a regulator, regarded as some of the central responsibilities of the Board to candidates and various stakeholders is to confirm no candidate who is licensed to be admitted is denied such admission, therefore the reasonably heaps of provisions by the Board for candidates to the least bit times elevate queries when they essentially feel shortchanged.”
“To facilitate this, the CAPS monitoring facility signifies the date, time, and even seconds that such results had been uploaded and, as such, supplies incontrovertible proof within the tournament of disputes.
Per TheCable, Benjamin added that:
“Earlier than this e-newsletter, some candidates, by the ‘Ticketing Platform’ of the Board, queried their failure to earn admitted, positing that by virtue of their ranking on the platform, they want to serene be admitted,”
“Their claim is being investigated to establish their veracity, with such universities being engaged to advance at a upright and equitable consequence. On the live of the investigations, it is our belief that justice would possibly be seen to had been accomplished.”
UNILAG explains why applicant with 326 JAMB/UTME ranking changed into not given admission
Meanwhile, Business City reported that JAMB debunked the claims made by a female candidate who accused the institution of deliberately denying her admission in spite of scoring 326 out of 400 within the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by JAMB
In a viral social media message, the candidate known as for support, however the university has said that her claim is fraudulent.
UNILAG acknowledged the applicant failed to upload her secondary college certificates consequence on the JAMB Central Admission Processing Machine (CAPS) earlier than the stipulated time restrict.
“I don’t must leave out admission”: Anxious scholar says
Some college students and of us alike have gotten anxious following the non-launch of the June/July 2023 Senior Secondary College Certificates Examination (SSCE) conducted by the Nationwide Examinations Council (NECO).
The stress is because many SS3 college students wrote the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) with awaiting results.
The launch of NECO results has become very well-known for these items of participants to course of their admission into higher education.
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