The Federal Authorities has ordered that any scholar caught dishonest in any nationwide examination will face a three-year ban throughout all exterior examination our bodies, together with JAMB, WAEC, NECO, and NABTEB.
This directive was disclosed in an official round signed by JAMB’s Public Communications Advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, dated Could 27, 2025.
The coverage types a part of wider measures to cut back examination malpractice and eradicate the affect of miracle centres in Nigeria’s training system.
Based on the round, the directive was issued by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, according to Sections 5(1)(c)(iv) and 6 of the JAMB Act.
“Pupil (s) concerned in examination malpractice ought to be barred from sitting for any exterior examinations in Nigeria, akin to these performed by WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, and so forth., for 3 years utilizing the instrumentality of NIN. Such a stringent measure will function a deterrent to different college students and oldsters,” the board acknowledged
The federal authorities believes that this coverage will discourage college students and oldsters from partaking in malpractice and restore credibility to the nation’s examination system.
The directive additionally consists of strict sanctions in opposition to faculties and Laptop-Based mostly Check (CBT) centres that support malpractice.
“Any college/CBT centre concerned in examination malpractice and/or performing as a miracle centre ought to be derecognised for quite a lot of years. The length will likely be decided by the examination physique,” the board acknowledged
As well as, the round famous that examination our bodies should work collectively to implement penalties throughout the board.
“If any college/CBT centre is derecognised by any examination physique, different sister examination our bodies ought to observe go well with and derecognise the identical college/CBT centre for a similar variety of years to run concurrently. This may ship a really robust sign to the operators of those miracle centres,” they acknowledged
JAMB defined that the ministerial directive aligns with Part 16(2) of the Examination Malpractices Act.
This provision empowers examination our bodies to withdraw recognition from centres concerned in malpractice and share the names of such centres with different examination authorities, enabling coordinated sanctions throughout completely different examination our bodies
The three-year ban on college students caught dishonest will likely be enforced by way of the Nationwide Identification Quantity (NIN), which is necessary for all candidates earlier than they will sit for any nationwide examination.
Nairametrics reported that the statistical breakdown revealed on Could 5, 2025, by the board signifies that out of the 1.95 million college students who took the examination, 97 candidates have been concerned in direct examination infractions, whereas 2,157 others are presently present process investigations for suspected malpractices
JAMB famous that they’re finishing up investigations with safety businesses into some Laptop-Based mostly Check (CBT) centres. The Board emphasised that any CBT centre discovered violating laws won’t obtain cost.
An preliminary cost of over N3 billion was launched to accredited centres as part-payment for providers in the course of the 2025 UTME, however the Board retains the best to recuperate funds from any centres implicated within the investigations, together with by way of authorized means.
