THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has inaugurated a special committee to investigate cases of technology-driven malpractice detected during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Inaugurating the 23-member committee in Abuja yesterday, JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, expressed concerns over the rising sophistication in perpetrating exam fraud. Oloyede revealed that the results of 6,458 candidates remained under investigation for alleged involvement in high-tech cheating.
“This year, we come across a number of strange things and we felt that it would be better if we expand our resources.
“We believe that God has endowed this nation with a lot of resources that we can tap from,” Oloyede said.
He noted that malpractices had evolved beyond traditional schemes into “technologically sophisticated forms,” including multiple cases of biometric and identity fraud by some accredited CBT centres and candidates.
Oloyede stressed the need for urgent action to protect the credibility of examinations.
“Examination malpractice is something that we must fight with every pinch of blood in our veins.
“This is because unchecked fraud could harm several sectors and tarnish Nigeria’s image,” he said.
The registrar disclosed that while 141 cases of “normal” exam malpractice had been sent to JAMB’s disciplinary committee, the committee would handle the “extraordinary infractions,” such as image blending, albinism falsification, finger pairing, and attempts to breach some CBT centres’ Local Area Network.
He listed the terms of reference of the committee to include : Investigate all the cases of image blending, finger blending, false claim of albinism and result falsification in the 2025 examination.
