FG ORDERS JAMB, WAEC, NECO TO BLACKLIST EXAM MALPRACTICE OFFENDERS
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By Aishat Momoh. O.
The Federal Government has directed all major examination bodies in Nigeria to immediately blacklist CBT centres and candidates found guilty of examination malpractices, in the wake of widespread fraud uncovered during the 2025 UTME.
In a letter dated May 27, 2025, the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, instructed JAMB, WAEC, NECO, and NABTEB to sanction any school or centre implicated in cheating, stressing that such centres must be derecognised for a specified number of years. He emphasized that all sister examination bodies should enforce the same punishment in unison, to demonstrate a united front against systemic malpractice.
The minister also called for offending students to be barred from sitting for any external exams for a period of three years, with the ban enforced through their National Identification Number (NIN). He noted that this directive is supported by provisions of the Examination Malpractices Act, which allows for the circulation of names of individuals or institutions involved in misconduct for reciprocal disciplinary action.
The directive follows revelations by JAMB of what it described as sophisticated exam fraud involving candidate impersonation, digital manipulation, and collusion by some CBT centres. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed that more than 3,000 candidates were already under investigation or had their results withdrawn as a result of these discoveries. He warned that any additional findings backed by incontrovertible evidence would lead to further result cancellations, regardless of whether the results had already been released.
The federal government’s move signals a clampdown on a rising wave of technologically driven examination fraud, and an effort to restore credibility to Nigeria’s education assessment system.
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