15,000 Candidates Caught, 17 Officials Jailed For Certificate Forgery – JAMB

Forgery scandal rocks admissions as JAMB, ICPC crack down on offenders

Latest Nigerian News and Entertainment - Latest Nigerian News and Entertainment The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has exposed a large-scale forgery involving at least 15,000 candidates who falsified admission letters to qualify for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, revealed this on Monday during the NYSC Batch C Pre-Mobilisation Workshop held in Abuja. He confirmed that…

15,000 Candidates Caught, 17 Officials Jailed For Certificate Forgery – JAMB

No fewer than 15,000 candidates have been caught forging admission letters to qualify for participation in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this during the 2025 Batch C Pre-Mobilisation Workshop in Abuja. According to the Registrar, the forgery was discovered after an internal audit and cross-verification of records from various tertiar…