Uniben Clearance

This post provides the complete procedure and requirements for the University of Benin Uniben Online and Physical Clearance.

In order to go through the various clearance procedures you must first accept your provisional admission online, then pay the required acceptance fee. You can read this post for more details on that.

Uniben Online Clearance Procedure

As soon as the University Online Clearance Portal is opened you will be able to participate in the clearance exercise, to complete the online clearance you can follow the procedure below.

First of all Login to your kofa page profile using your student ID and password.

Next Copy the “Clearance Activation Code” on your acceptance payment slip.

Next Click on “My Data” on the menu and select “Clearance data” option.

Next Enter your “Clearance Activation Code” to open your Clearance/Eligibility form.

Next Fill the Clearance/Eligibility Form appropriately and correctly.

And finally Upload all the required documents. Below we have the list of required documents for Uniben Clearance.

Uniben Clearance Documents

All required documents must be a clear scanned version of their original.

1. Birth Certificate or Age Declaration (Affidavits):

This refers the certificate issued to the parents of candidate by a registered Doctor at the time of birth, but due to one or two reasons most people may have lost possession of this certificate either by accident or by indirect damage.

Therefore such people are allowed to submit an affidavits of age declaration sworn in any Court of Law in Nigeria.

2. SSCE Certificates or statements of result:

This could either be the result obtained in the National examination council (NECO) or the West African Examinations council (WAEC).

All candidates are required to upload a clearly scanned copy of any of the above examination result.

Only aspirant who sat for the recent SSCE examination will be allowed to submit their Statement of Result from the School they sat for the examination.

If you are using two (2) results (which is allowed for only some departments) ensure you upload them respectively by exam year.

3.  Jamb Admission Letter

All candidates are required to obtain their Jamb admission letter which contains the passport photograph of the candidate. For more info on getting Jamb Admission Letter read this post.

4. Admission Acceptance letter

This is a formal letter that indicates that you accept the provisional admission given to you by the university. It must be well typed.

Note that your hand written signature must appear on this letter, therefore the letter has to be typed, signed by you and scanned before uploading.

5. Guarantor’s letter

A guarantor simply means a person who gives guarantee. That is to say, a guarantor is simply a person who assume responsibility of whomever he/she decides.

This letter must be duly signed by whosoever that have decided to take full responsibility of you and whatever expenses that may arise as a student (upkeep).

Note that the hand written signature of the guarantor must appear on this letter, therefore the letter has to be typed, signed and scanned before uploading.

6. Affidavit of good conduct

This indicates that you will exhibit good conduct and morals in the school premises and it will be used against you when you behave contrarily which can cost you your admission.

It must be duly signed and stamped at any high court of justice in Nigeria.

Note that your hand written signature and that of the court representative must appear on this letter, therefore the letter has to be typed, signed and scanned before uploading.

7. Affidavit of non-membership of secret cults

This letter is used to indicate that you are not a member of any secret cult and can be used against you in the court of law when proven otherwise, which will definitely terminate your admission.

This is because the University of Benin has zero tolerance for cultism.

Note that your hand written signature and that of the court representative must appear on this letter, therefore the letter has to be typed, signed and scanned before uploading.

8. Uniben provisional admission letter

This is the admission letter given to you by the school, and it contains the department you are admitted into.

Login to your kofa page with your student id and password. Click on the menu button and click on admission letter to print your provisional admission letter.

9. Local Government Area of origin certificate

This certificates are issued by local government councils of your home town. It can only be gotten from your state of origin local government Secretariat.

Ensure you indicate that it is going to be used for school purpose to reduce the cost.It will be typed and printed for you after you've been asked some few questions like; the name of your father’s home town, etc.

Finally, ensure you go along with a passport photography, that will be clipped and stamped on it.

Note that if you do not have the complete details or documents you can save your form by clicking the “save” button at the bottom of the clearance form page and get back to it when all requirements are complete.Ensure you don’t make the mistake of clicking the “save and request button” when you are not done with the application.

This is because after Final submission, you cannot edit the clearance/eligibility form anymore.

Uniben Physical Clearance Procedure

After your online clearance process, the university will take some few days break before starting the physical clearance process.

An invitation letter will be given to your on your school profile. This letter indicates the exact date you are to come for your physical clearance and failure to make it on that day might result to a lot of issue.

So therefore ensure you check your school profile regularly for your physical clearance invitation letter.

Required documents for Uniben Physical Clearance

Ensure you Arrange all the original copies of the documents listed below in an office file and get enough red background Passports (1"x1") at least 30 – 40 copies.

You are strongly advice to make at least 10 photocopies of each of your original documents, Arrange the photocopied documents in an office file as well (i.e. 1 of each documents should be arranged together in a file) and have at least 10 copies of that file (with the arranged documents), Each of the files must have a passport attached to it.

The file containing all original documents will be collected from you by the clearance officer for inspection and later returned back to you.

And a file containing the photocopy of the same set of document will be submitted to the clearance officer and will not be returned.

Below is the list of all required documents for Uniben Physical Clearance

SSCE Result

Scratch card ( 1 card for one sitting result and 2 cards for two sitting results)

Original Jamb admission letter

Original Jamb result

Birth certificate or age declaration

Local government of origin cert

Affidavit of good conduct

Affidavit of non-membership of secret Cult.

Guarantor's letter

Acceptance letter

SSCE (WAEC or NECO) certificate or statement of result.

Ensure you keep the remaining photocopies of documents as you will also be needing them for other clearance process (departmental clearance, faulty clearance, hostel clearance and others).

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