By Babatunde Emmanuel

Claim

A viral whatsApp notice claims that current 300l, 400l and 500l students must print JAMB admission letters to avoid forfeiting admission.

Verdict: Misleading

The claim is misleading.

JAMB has indeed directed candidates with pending admission offers to accept or reject their offers on CAPS. However, IndyPress found no official directive from JAMB stating that students must print their admission letters to avoid forfeiting their admission.

Full Text

A message circulating on WhatsApp states:

“Kindly ensure that your students print out their JAMB admission letters from the JAMB portal. This is quite different from the university admission letter.

“Most especially if you are admitted into the university between 2020 to 2025.

“The portal will be closed finally on the 30th August 2026, after which such students forfeit his or her admission in respect of the student level if this is not done.

“Current 300L, 400L and 500L students must also consider this information as vital in as much as you have not gotten your NYSC call-up number.”

The message further advised students experiencing difficulties to visit the nearest JAMB office.

Verification

What JAMB Actually Said

IndyPress reviewed JAMB’s official communications, including its official X page and blog, for a directive requiring students to print their admission letters as a condition for retaining their admission.

The search found no such directive.

Jamb’s Directive

JAMB issued a public notice directing candidates with pending admission offers, including unresolved admissions from previous admission years, to accept or reject their offers on CAPS on or before August 31, 2026.

The board warned that candidates who fail to act on pending admission offers by the deadline risk forfeiting those offers.

The directive, however, does not state that candidates must print their JAMB admission letters to retain their admission.

Instead, JAMB’s directive concerns candidates with pending admission offers who are required to accept or reject those offers on CAPS within the stipulated deadline.

IndyPress also contacted Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocols, to clarify whether students are required to print their admission letters.

Responding to the inquiry, Dr Fabian said:

“We asked students to accept their admission, not to print admission letters.”

He explained that the directive was aimed at ensuring that candidates accept their admissions because failure to do so could prevent them from proceeding with their university admission.

“We asked students to accept their admission because if they don’t, they can’t proceed in the university. We’re only trying to address the issue before it becomes serious because a lot of students are currently going through the issue now, hereby going up and down just because they didn’t accept their admission, which has resulted in a great problem for them now,” he added.

What About 300-Level, 400-Level And 500-Level Students?

The circulating message specifically states that current 300-level, 400-level and 500-level students who have not received their NYSC call-up numbers should treat the instruction as important.

However, IndyPress found no official JAMB statement directing students in these levels to print their admission letters because they have not received their NYSC call-up numbers.

The claim that students admitted between 2020 and 2025 must print their admission letters to avoid forfeiting their admission could also not be verified from JAMB’s official communications.

Conclusion

The circulating message combines a genuine JAMB directive with claims that are not supported by the board’s official communication.

JAMB has directed candidates with pending admission offers to accept or reject those offers on CAPS by August 31, 2026. 

However, the board did not direct students to print their admission letters as a condition for retaining their admission.

There is also no official JAMB directive found by IndyPress requiring current 300-level, 400-level or 500-level students who have not received their NYSC call-up numbers to print their admission letters.

Therefore, the claim that students must print their JAMB admission letters before the stated deadline or risk forfeiting their admission is misleading.