The National Examinations Council (NECO), the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) have been instructed by Education Minister Dr. Tunji Alausa to blacklist Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres and candidates who have been found to have engaged in examination malpractice.
In a letter dated May 27, 2025, he issued an order to JAMB and other examination boards, allegedly in response to the astoundingly sharp tactics that preceded the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Alausa specifically said that any school or CBT centre engaging in exam fraud or functioning as a miracle centre would lose their accreditation for a period of years that would be decided by the testing authority.
He said, “If any school/CBT centre is derecognised by any examination body, other sister examination bodies should follow suit and derecognise the same school/CBT centre for the same number of years to run concurrently. This will send a very strong signal to operators of these miracle centres.
“The student(s) involved in examination malpractice should be barred from sitting for any external examinations in Nigeria, such as those conducted by WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, etc, for three years, using the instrumentality of NIN. Such a stringent measure will serve as a deterrent to other students and parents.”
He clarified that existing legislation, particularly Section 16(2) of the Examination Malpractices Act, supported his action.
Recall that JAMB had, while releasing the 2025 UTME resit results, claimed to have recorded what it referred to as “advanced malpractices.“
The JAMB registrar while speaking stated that “further high-level malpractices were uncovered, which led to the withdrawal of some results and the arrest of several culprits across the country, some of whom have made useful confessions.”
“But as investigation progresses, all candidates implicated in these unwholesome activities will have their results withdrawn as soon as incontrovertible proofs are established, even if the results have been released,” he added.
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