JAMB To Prosecute 200 Exam Cheats,Budgets 100m

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday alerted Nigerians to the loads of malpractices in the centres of its 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in some Northern parts of the country.

According to the organisation, examination scam syndicates in the Computer-Based Test centres, which used to be in the Southern part of Nigeria, has now seeped into the North.

Prof Ishaq Oloyede reminded tertiary institutions of the warning from the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, that any school that allows candidates to  alter their UTME details in the course of registration risk being treated as accomplice to fraud.

Speaking on the planned prosecution of candidates and other individuals involved in impersonation and use of mercenaries, the JAMB boss said the Board lacked the resources to ensure all of them are brought to book.

He added that the arrest of Buhari Abubakar, a 2020 JAMB candidate, and Mohammed Ajeru Sanusi, a CBT centre operator in Kano, for trying to change the former passport, testified to the ability of JAMB to detect any such fraud in any institution.