•Says BUK expelled 500 students with fake results
The Nigeria Integrated Post Secondary Education Data System (NIPEDS) introduced by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has uncovered 520 fake A/L results used for Direct Entry admissions across the country.
The Chairman, NIPEDS, Prof. Yahuza Bello, who was a former Vice-Chancellor, Bayero University, Kano, made this startling revelation during an interview with JAMBulletin at the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria held at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja, on Tuesday, 8th July, 2025.
Prof. Bello disclosed that the committee, in the course of verifying the certificates of some Direct Entry candidates for the year 2019 – 2024 had discovered that 520 of the certificates presented were fake.
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He also disclosed that appropriate action had been taken against these fraudulent candidates. Furthermore, he stated that the NCE programme alone had generated 213 fake certificates out of the 9,460 screened by NIPEDS stressing that the Board’s system had been sufficiently updated to prevent candidates with fake certificates be it IJMB, Cambridge or JUPEB to apply for Direct Entry admission.
The NIPEDS helmsman also noted that between September 2019 and April 2024, the Senate of Bayero University, Kano, had expelled over 500 students found to have gained admission with fake or altered credentials, and majority of these students were admitted through Direct Entry.
He said this alarming trend was a clear indication of the scope of the problem and would require the collective efforts of all to address. Prof. Bello, however, traced the root cause of the rampant cases of certificate forgery to the carelessness of some universities, which would not bother themselves with verifying the entry qualifications presented by the candidates they admit, thereby admitting candidates with fake or altered qualifications.
He reiterated that, going forward, NIPEDS would be further strengthened to fulfill its desire to consolidate on the establishment of a database of all recognized postsecondary education qualifications in Nigeria.
He said the existing database had enabled JAMB to verify t h e qualifications presented by DE applicants, while the verification status of each applicant are being made available to the various institutions for their guidance.
Additionally, he disclosed that NIPEDS had been able to document the qualifications of DE applicants, while also quantifying as well as arranging the applicants for each programme in all universities in order of merit – as has been done with UTME applicants while noting that all DE admissions are now being conducted on the JAMB CAPS platform in a very transparent, fair and objective manner.
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