The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has issued a new directive requiring all Nigerian tertiary institutions to upload their post-UTME screening results onto the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).
This initiative is designed to enhance transparency and ensure that only qualified candidates are admitted, preventing malpractices and favoritism in the admission process.
JAMB has instructed institutions to account for every candidate who participated in the post-UTME, including details such as total scores, O’level result rankings (for some institutions), grading of post-UTME examinations, and information on absentee candidates. This step aims to eliminate the practice of denying admission to qualified candidates in favor of those with lower scores.
Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the registrar of JAMB, emphasized that institutions are allowed to conduct multiple post-UTME screenings, but they must provide comprehensive results, including those of absentee candidates, to ensure fairness in the admission process.
According to JAMB’s latest bulletin released on Monday, August 5, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, the agency’s registrar, said:
“Institutions are to forward, by way of upload, the complete post-UTME scores for all their candidates through CAPS as part of requirements to be submitted before the recommendation of any successful candidates for admission.
“Institutions are free to conduct post-UTME screening as many times as possible but all results must be comprehensive, including absentee candidates.”
These measures are part of JAMB’s ongoing efforts to uphold the integrity of the admission process and ensure that all candidates are treated equitably. In line with these efforts, JAMB has also emphasized that starting from the 2025 admission cycle, only candidates who are at least 18 years old will be admitted, marking a shift from the previous policy allowing 16-year-olds to gain admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions.
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