Fake Result: Uganda, Kenya, begin strict verification of Nigerian students’ records
Story by Jane AISO
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that Kenyan and Ugandan institutions are demanding records of Nigerian candidates seeking for admission into their institutions for verification.
This was made known by the board in a document for the 2024 policy meeting.
JAMB noted in the document that it would not falsify the records of any students while stressing the need to protect Nigeria’s tertiary education from disrepute.
The development comes on the back of the Federal Government’s decision to suspend the verification of degree certificates from Uganda, Kenya, Benin Republic, Togo and some other countries over allegations of certificate racketeering.
In March, the Federal Government set up an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling to probe the activities of certificate racketeers following an investigative report which exposed the activities of fake degree mills in Benin Republic.
The investigative report, which exposed the illegalities perpetrated by some tertiary institutions in the West African countries, led to the Nigerian government placing a ban on the accreditation and evaluation of degrees from Benin Republic and Togo.
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The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, having received the report of the committee, noted that holders of fake degrees from Nigerian and foreign universities would be flushed out of the system.
Some of the recommendations of the committee stressed the need for universities in the country to conduct their admissions via the Central Admissions Processing System, popularly known as CAPS, and the mandatory submission of matriculation lists to the federal Ministry of Education.
Reacting to the Nigerian government placing a ban on the accreditation and evaluation of degree from two African countries, JAMB noted that Kenya and Uganda exam boards are now writing to Nigeria to verify records of Nigerian students seeking to study in the countries.
It could be recalled that on Monday, the Federal Government mandated all higher institutions in the country to “regularly submit their matriculation lists to the Federal Ministry of Education not later than three months after matriculation ceremonies.”
The list, the government said, must be submitted “through the dedicated channel of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.”
The initiative is one of the recommendations made by the Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling set up by the government to combat fake degree mills or racketeers in the country.
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