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At least seventeen deputy vice chancellors, several deputy registrars, and four staff members of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have been detained by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over alleged involvement in large-scale admission forgery.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this on Monday during the 2025 Batch C Pre-Mobilisation Workshop of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) held in Abuja.
Oloyede revealed that the arrests followed the discovery of 15,000 forged admission letters submitted by prospective corps members attempting to gain eligibility for NYSC mobilisation.
He said those implicated, including top university officials and JAMB personnel, had been handed over to the ICPC for investigation and prosecution.
“As I speak, some deputy registrars and not less than 17 deputy vice chancellors, including four JAMB staff, are in the custody of the ICPC. We took them there ourselves. Those who wish to go to jail should do so knowingly, not by accident. We discovered that 15,000 candidates forged their admission letters to qualify for NYSC mobilisation,” he said.
The JAMB Registrar described the development as a major breach of the nation’s higher education integrity system and a growing threat to the credibility of the NYSC mobilisation process.
He urged universities and tertiary institutions to adhere strictly to approved admission procedures through the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), warning that JAMB would continue to work with anti-corruption agencies to track offenders.
Meanwhile, NYSC Director-General, Brigadier-General Olakunle Nafiu, condemned the rising trend of forgery and identity fraud, describing it as a direct assault on the transparency of the mobilisation system.
He said, “mobilising only qualified Nigerian graduates for national service remains central to our mandate…We cannot allow the process to be compromised by fake credentials and irregular admissions.”
In a related development, JAMB announced an extension of the 2025/2026 admission deadline for public universities from October 31 to November 17.
This follows the appeals from the Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU).
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