UTME fraud: 80% linked to a shocking supply, says JAMB

The Chairman of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Particular Committee on Examination Infractions, Jake Epelle, has accused mother and father of being the largest culprits within the wave of malpractices bedeviling the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Epelle, who spoke on Channels Tv’s Politics In the present day after submitting the committee’s report back to JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, in Abuja on Monday, revealed that oldsters account for “80 per cent of fraudulent practices” recorded within the examination.

“Eighty per cent of those infractions are brought on by mother and father who need to give marks to their youngsters that they don’t deserve,” he stated.

The committee’s findings paint a troubling image of the extent of examination malpractice. It uncovered:

4,251 instances of “finger mixing”

190 instances of AI-assisted impersonation by way of picture morphing

1,878 false incapacity claims

Over 85,000 miss JAMB mop-up examination amid fears of mass impersonation
Cast credentials

A number of NIN registrations

Collusion between candidates, tutorial centres, and syndicates.

Epelle warned that expertise is more and more being weaponised to compromise the examination’s integrity. “That is the age of AI, and what’s going on is that JAMB rolls out a state-of-the-art expertise; there are folks behind the scene and these are sensible younger Nigerians. The system is powerful, however there’s a constant conspiracy to undermine the system,” he defined.

He additional harassed the necessity for “homegrown adaptive expertise” tailor-made to Nigeria’s peculiar challenges.

Regardless of the rising fraud, Epelle assured candidates and the general public that JAMB, beneath Prof. Oloyede’s management, is not going to condone any act of malpractice.