JAMB Takes Steps to Prevent Fake A’Level Certificates from Being Used for Admission, and the Federal Government Approves an A’Level Certificates Data Bank
The federal government has approved the construction of an Advanced Level (A’Level) Credentials Data Bank in the country, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). This will put an end to the use of bogus Advanced Level (A’Level) certificates.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, or JAMB, announced on Tuesday, May 24, that its investigation revealed that more than 90% of A’ Level results provided by hopefuls for university admission were false.
The board said through its Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, that the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has authorised the creation of an Advanced Level (A Level) certificate data bank to halt the trend.
At the inaugural session of a three-day course for the Board’s Public Relations team, Oloyede spoke through his representative and JAMB’s Director, Legal Services, Dr Abdul Wahab Oyedokun.
According to Oloyede, the Board has taken many steps to ensure that its examination methods are completely sane.
Oloyede said the Board has taken another big step to prevent the use of false A-Level certificates to get admission, naming some of the steps as the deployment of sophisticated biometric technology to curb duplicate registrations in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
“One of the primary responsibilities we undertook here in the last year, and with Professor Oloyede’s second coming as registrar of JAMB, was to focus on some of the problems that are happening in these JUPEB and IJMB.”
“And at the last exam, we convened a stakeholders conference and invited managers from these organs to answer questions.” We also worked with other security services to spread our net across the country to see what was going on, and lo and behold, more than 47 owners of these businesses, as well as some of their lecturers and teachers, as well as people who conspired with them to commit fraud, were arrested across the country.
The Honourable Minister of Education has graciously approved the formation of an A-Level data bank as a result of this. So, for example, 90 percent of individuals who presented their A level grades for admission to a particular university were determined to be false,” the JAMB chairman added.
According to Oloyede, the data bank will ensure that all A-Level results are registered on a single platform, resulting in certificate uniformity and integrity.
