Prospective Law students at Lead City University have been warned by Nigeria's admissions regulator that offers they may have received from the institution's Faculty of Law carry no official recognition, placing their academic futures at serious risk if they proceed.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board stated in a release issued by its Public Communications Adviser, Fabian Benjamin, that the reported admissions were not processed through its Central Admissions Processing System, the only approved platform for admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Any admission not routed through CAPS, the Board made clear, is not recognised within the official framework.
"The Board states that the reported admissions were not conducted through CAPS. Consequently, such admissions are not recognised by the Board," the statement read.
The situation is compounded by the fact that Lead City University's Law programme is currently under a five year suspension. JAMB noted that institutions are expected to comply with existing admission guidelines throughout such periods, making the reported offers doubly irregular.
The Board also addressed attempts by some institutions to legitimise irregular admissions through inter University transfers, stating that such transfers would only be considered valid where the candidate had first been properly admitted through CAPS. "For a transfer to be valid, the candidate must have been properly admitted in the first instance," it said.
Candidates who accept admissions outside the recognised platform, JAMB warned, risk complications with documentation and the formal recognition of their admission status.
For any student who has already received an offer from the institution's Law Faculty, the implications are serious. Proceeding without verified CAPS processing could mean investing years in a programme that Nigerian authorities do not formally recognise, with limited options for remedy after the fact.
