The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged universities to desist from issuing admission letters to candidates seeking admissions into their various institutions saying it is not within their mandate to do so.
This was contained in the JAMB weekly Bulletin released on Monday.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Segun Aina, stated this when he received a delegation from the Veritas University, Bwari, Abuja, which paid him a courtesy visit on Thursday, 15th October 2026, in his office.
Aina stressed that JAMB was the only body statutorily empowered to issue official admission letters to candidates seeking entry into all tertiary institutions in Nigeria, including universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.
He said the irony of the situation was that once candidates see a document as emanating from an institution purporting to offer them admission, they believe that such is real.
He, therefore, charged universities guilty of this ignoble act to desist, adding that they also have the responsibility of ensuring that those candidates obtain the right documents from the Board.
Furthermore, he recalled that the Federal Ministry of Education had explicitly mandated that all admissions be conducted through the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) and that anything done contrary to that is illegal and invalid.
As a consequence, no institution is permitted to substitute its own letters for the official JAMB admission letter issued by the Board after a candidate had accepted his admission on CAPS.
He added that it is only admission offered through this platform that is recognised and would be accepted for the purpose of mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
