Anyone who has received an admission offer from the Law Faculty of Lead City University should stop before making any payments or commitments, as the country’s admissions regulator has declared those offers officially invalid.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, in a statement issued by its Public Communications Adviser Fabian Benjamin, said it had received complaints about the reported admissions and moved quickly to distance itself from the process entirely. The Board confirmed that the admissions were not conducted through its Central Admissions Processing System, the only platform through which tertiary institution admissions in Nigeria are officially recognised.
The problem runs deeper than a procedural irregularity. Lead City University’s Law programme is currently serving a five year suspension, meaning the institution had no business admitting students into the faculty in the first place. JAMB noted that institutions under such restrictions are expected to comply fully with existing admission guidelines for the duration of the suspension.
“The Board states that the reported admissions were not conducted through CAPS. Consequently, such admissions are not recognised by the Board,” the statement read.
The Board also anticipated attempts to find a workaround through inter University transfers, and addressed that possibility directly. Such transfers, it stated, would only be valid where the original admission had itself been processed through CAPS. An irregular admission cannot be legitimised after the fact through a transfer. “For a transfer to be valid, the candidate must have been properly admitted in the first instance,” JAMB said.
Candidates who proceed with unrecognised admissions, the Board warned, face serious consequences, including complications with documentation and the formal recognition of their qualification.
For prospective law students who may have been drawn in by the promise, the message from JAMB is unambiguous. An admission offer that did not come through CAPS is not an admission at all, and building an academic career on that foundation carries consequences that no institution will be able to resolve on a student’s behalf later.
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