Exam Malpractice Crackdown: Minister Orders JAMB, WAEC, and NECO to Blacklist Guilty Centers & Candidates!
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), the National Examinations Council (NECO), and the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) have been instructed by Education Minister Dr. Tunji Alausa to place candidates and Computer-Based Test (CBT) centers on a blacklist for engaging in examination malpractice.
The minister’s letter, dated May 27, 2025, to JAMB and other examination boards contained his directive, which was reportedly his response to the astoundingly harsh tactics that preceded the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Alausa specifically said that any CBT center or school engaged in exam fraud or functioning as a miracle center would lose their accreditation for a period of years that would be decided by the testing authority.
“Other sister examination bodies should follow suit and derecognize the same school/CBT center for the same number of years to run concurrently if any school/CBT center is derecognized by any examination body,” he stated. The operators of these miracle centers will receive a very strong signal from this.
“With the help of NIN, the student or students engaged in examination malpractice should be prohibited from taking any external exams in Nigeria, including those administered by WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, etc., for a period of three years. Parents and other pupils will be discouraged by such a strict policy.
He clarified that the existing legislation, particularly Section 16(2) of the Examination Malpractices Act, supported his decision.
“In the exercise of its powers under this section, an examination body may circulate the name of an offending candidate, supervisor, invigilator, official, school, or examination center to other examination bodies, which may impose similar punishment,” he emphasized, citing the Act.
Remember how JAMB claimed to have documented “advanced malpractices” when it released the results of the 2025 UTME retake?
JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede had observed, “While some Nigerians are busy dissipating energies on conspiracy theories and the spread of hatred, the future of Nigeria is being put in jeopardy by an advanced level of digitized fraud.”
“More high-level malpractices were discovered, which resulted in the withdrawal of some results and the arrest of several culprits across the country, some of whom have made useful confessions,” Oloyede added.
“As recently discovered by the security agencies, to which we are deeply grateful, these unwholesome practices include collusion of certain CBT center/school proprietors with the cooperation of accredited centers to hack the networks of targeted CBT centers, thereby gaining control of candidates’ computers and remotely submitting their responses to the relevant local server of the center.
“AI-enabled photo blending of candidates with impersonators, many of whom are currently enrolled in undergraduate programs; multi-person fingerprint registration, which combines fingerprints for a single candidate’s registration.”
Additionally, there have been instances of Local Area Networks (LAN) being extended from centers to distant “strong rooms”; candidates who registered for the UTME in order to gain access to the exam room were paired with professional mercenaries following willful disruption of their seating arrangements. Regretfully, it is discovered that a large number of undergraduate students at postsecondary schools engage in this evil activity.
It should be emphasized when announcing the results that some of the previously disclosed results of involved candidates nationwide have had to be withdrawn due to fresh revelations, especially by the security authorities.
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