Fake Results: JAMB Registrar Sends Useful Message to Employers, ‘It Should Serve As Model’

Fake Results: JAMB Registrar Sends Useful Message to Employers, ‘It Should Serve As Model’

  • The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) held its 2024 annual management retreat recently
  • The week-long annual retreat is in tune with the board’s practice of assessing its activities
  • At the event, JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, sent a useful message to employers amid the scourge of fake results

Legit.ng journalist, Ridwan Adeola Yusuf, has over 9 years of experience covering metro and tertiary education in Nigeria and Africa.

Badary, Lagos - Professor Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has recommended that the system the agency adopts—where candidates do not present their results directly to institutions but rely solely on results transmitted by JAMB—should serve as a model for employers.

According to the latest JAMBulletin obtained on Monday, September 2, by Legit.ng, Oloyede stated that employers imitating JAMB would mitigate the risk of result falsification.

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Fake results: JAMB registrar sends useful message to employers
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede-led JAMB operates with laid-down guidelines for admissions into Nigerian higher institutions. Photo credit: @JAMBHQ
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Legit.ng reports that JAMB has, over the years, nabbed several Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates who allegedly manipulated their results.

In 2023, the case of Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School (AGSS) Nnewi, Anambra state, went viral. After several back-and-forths, the young girl and her father later admitted that her supposedly outstanding result was forged.

Speaking recently at the 2024 JAMB management retreat, which took place in Lagos state, Oloyede referenced Mmesoma's case.

The JAMB boss emphasised that JAMB's operations are under continuous scrutiny by the national assembly, and "the management and staff have consistently been recognised for their transparency and integrity".

Citing the report from the house of representatives' investigative committee, Prof. Oloyede said:

"JAMB should be commended for its rigorous examination processes, transparency, innovation, and record-keeping systems, which enable the swift retrieval of unaltered transaction records with candidates.”

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Ridwan Adeola (Current Affairs Editor) Ridwan Adeola Yusuf is a content creator with more than nine years of experience, He is also a Current Affairs Editor at Legit.ng. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Mass Communication from the Polytechnic Ibadan, Oyo State (2014). Ridwan previously worked at Africa Check, contributing to fact-checking research works within the organisation. He is an active member of the Academic Excellence Initiative (AEI). In March 2024, Ridwan completed the full Google News Initiative Lab workshop and his effort was recognised with a Certificate of Completion. Email: ridwan.adeola@corp.legit.ng.