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Friday March 13, 2026
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has declared any admission offered into the Law Faculty of Lead City University as illegal and has warned candidates to disregard such offers.
JAMB made the declaration following numerous reports alleging that candidates were being admitted into the university’s law programme despite a suspension imposed by the Council of Legal Education (CLE).
The CLE had, on June 26, 2024, placed Lead City University under a five-year moratorium on law admissions after identifying inadequate infrastructure and violations of the approved 50-student admission quota.
In a statement issued on Thursday by its Public Communications Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB clarified that the admissions in question were not processed through the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), the only approved platform for processing admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
JAMB stated that any admission offered outside CAPS is unknown to the Board and therefore void.
The Board emphasised that Lead City University is not authorised to admit candidates into the law programme until the expiration of the suspension imposed by the Council of Legal Education.
JAMB highlighted that the development reinforces its repeated warnings to candidates not to accept admission offers that are not processed through CAPS.
The Board stressed that any admission not processed and approved on the platform should be regarded as fake, adding that candidates who accept such offers have no legitimate claim and may be considered complicit in the irregular process.
JAMB strongly advised prospective candidates, in their own interest, not to accept any admission not processed through CAPS, as the Board will neither recognise nor condone such admissions.
The Board urged candidates who might have been offered admission outside CAPS to disregard the offers and begin the process of obtaining the next Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) application to pursue legitimate admission through the appropriate channels.
JAMB revealed that it was aware of attempts by some universities to circumvent the rules by transferring illegally admitted candidates to other institutions through inter-university transfers.
The Board warned that such attempts would fail, as it would not endorse any inter-university transfer without a valid initial admission processed through CAPS.
JAMB reiterated its commitment to enforcing the laws and regulations guiding the nation’s admission system and assured that it would continue to discharge its responsibilities accordingly.
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