•UTME candidates
Data released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board during its 2025 policy meeting today revealed that Computer-Based Test Centres in Imo and Anambra states topped the list of CBT Centres nabbed for fingerprinting malpractices.
In total, about 19 centres were nabbed nationwide, with Anambra having six, Imo with four, Abia with one, Edo with one, Kano with two centres, Ebonyi, Delta, Kaduna, Rivers and Enugu with one centre each, reports The PUNCH.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, during his presentation, also noted that impersonators also made use of albinos for the purpose of image bending and remote uploads, among others.
Meanwhile, the police have arraigned two persons before the Federal High Court in Katsina for alleged impersonation and examination malpractice.
The police prosecutor, Abdussalam Danmaidaki, said the defendants, Bolanwu Emmanuel and Ibrahim Abdulaziz, committed the offence on April 30 at Zee Alpha International School, Funtua.
Danmaidaki said that Emmanuel invited Abdulaziz into the exam hall to impersonate him and sit for the 2025 UTME, JAMB examination on his behalf with registration number 2025515278JA.
The prosecutor said that the offence was punishable under sections 4(2)(a) and (b), and 4(3)(c) of the Examination Malpractice Act, Cap E15, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
He also said that Abdulaziz unlawfully and fraudulently presented himself as a UTME candidate and wrote the said exam under the same name as Emmanuel with registration number 2025515278JA.
He said that the offence was punishable under sections 3(1)(a) and (b), and 3(2)(c) of the exam malpractice Act, Cap E15 laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor prayed to the court to allow time for him to present witnesses.
The presiding judge, Justice Hussaini Dadan-Garba, adjourned the case to July 18 for trial and presentation of witnesses by the prosecution.
