The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it uncovered at least 1,665 fake A’level results during the 2023 Direct Entry registration exercise.

The board also said the A’level results verification regime was characterised by corruption associated with the system.

The Registrar, Professor IS-HAQ OLOYEDE, disclosed these when he received the leadership of the National Association of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students in his office in Abuja.

The registrar recalled that in the past when a candidate applied for Direct Entry, the board would simply ask awarding institutions to do the necessary screening and due diligence.

He stated that JAMB was shocked by the revelations from Bayero University, Kano, where out of the 148 Direct Entry applications to the institution, only six of the certificates forwarded for processing were genuine.

The registrar added that it was the discovery of the fraud that prompted the meeting of critical stakeholders, who met to chart ways of combating the menace.

Prof. OLOYEDE said part of the measures suggested was the constitution of an A’level result verification task force as well as the creation of a common platform for the verification of A’level results and certificates.