In 2019, Adisa, other names withheld, was given admission to study Accountancy by the then Lagos State Polytechnic, LASPOTECH. He was to attend classes at the Isolo Campus of the institution.

His father became worried because there was no printout of the admission letter from the portal of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, though the boy wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, that year.

Going by the processes laid down by the Board, all admissions are to be processed through the Central Admissions Processing Systems, CAPS.

The boy and his colleagues were told by the school authorities that they were admitted through the Daily Part Time, DPT and that they would be attending classes and. be sitting for the same examinations like those whose admissions were done through CAPS.

For three years, the boy was still on the National Diploma course and was going to school daily. The promise by the school that they would streamline their admissions in line with JAMB’s dictates so that they would be able to print their admission letters from the JAMB portal has not been fulfilled up till now.

Even with his ND programme finally completed after three years, the hapless boy has not been able to move on educationally. LASPOTECH has been converted to a university, he cannot secure admission to another polytechnic for his Higher National Diploma, HND, course, as the admission letter from JAMB regarding his ND programme is required.

The above is different from institutions overshooting their admission quotas, especially in professional courses like Law, Medicine, and Nursing among others, leading to some students being unable to go to Law School or be inducted by their professional bodies.

The story is the same all over the country and almost all universities, polytechnics and colleges of education are guilty.
As of about a year ago, higher institutions in the country have conducted over 470,000 illegal admissions