The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said on Thursday that it has discovered one million illegal institutional admissions so far.
The examination body said it was surprised that less than five per cent of such students’ details had been uploaded on the Board portal by the institutions as required.
It blamed the inability of some candidates to obtain their admission letters which would qualify them to proceed on the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) or obtain exemption letters on the illegal admissions.
In a statement by JAMB Head, Media and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, the board said this phenomenon was especially true of products of undisclosed illegal institutional admissions conducted outside the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) between 2017 and 2020.