NYSC, JAMB creates a bilateral committee on admissions regularization
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) have agreed to create a bilateral committee to address issue of abuse of regularization of admissions by Corps Producing Institutions (CPI).
Vanguard NGR reported that the need for the committee is followed a complaint by the NYSC management to JAMB alleging irregularities in the process, thereby making mobilization of prospective corps members difficult for it.
In a letter to JAMB from NYSC, it stated: “In view of the abuse the regularization of admissions has been subjected, JAMB should revise the window of post-graduation regularization by introducing measures that will make it impossible for institutions to abuse the process,”
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede lamented the rate some desperate students abuse the system to regularize their admissions.
Oleyede mentioned that one of the measures to address the issue is the introduction of a new template designed by the Board for all candidates and is to be completed online.
After completing the forms online, a candidate will print an indemnity form which must be endorsed by his / her Vice Chancellor/Rector/Provost and submitted to the state JAMB office. This is to ensure that only genuinely admitted candidates are regularized.”
The Registrar disclosed that from the last quarter of 2016, they received 953 applications for change of date of birth with 77 out of it approved. 68 applications for change of state/local government area, 39 applications approved, 518 applications for correction of name and 423 approved.
The Director General of the NYSC, Brig-General Suleiman Kazaue in his response solicited cooperation of JAMB to grant NYSC access to the number of students admitted on yearly basis.
He opt for synergy of JAMB, NUC and NYSC for optimal performance in curbing the irregularities, stating that it is unfortunate that some institutions are sending part-time graduates for mobilization.
