The exam
body said one of the greatest challenges it had was the involvement of
candidates in exam malpractices and fraud.
The
registrar of the board, Ishaq Oloyede, said this during a meeting with the Itse
Sagay led Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption in Abuja on
Wednesday
He said most
parents have gone “haywire in their various activities of making sure their
wards passed the examination at all cost.”
“A candidate
was caught here for impersonation. He agreed he did it that he was writing for
his brother and their mother was aware. And when a call was put through to the
mother, she said she is a prophetess. This is an example among others,” he
said.
Mr Oloyede
decried the use of religion to achieve non-religious issues.
“My two
years here have been more stressful than my cumulative years in the university
system. None of my superiors ever asked me to do what is wrong since I became a
registrar,” Mr Oloyede said.
“The board
will open an account too and any candidate who pays into the account for
fraudulent activities will be disqualified from writing the examination,” he
hinted.
According to
him, out of 1,840,225 candidates who wrote the examination, only 800,000 have
the 5 credits minimum requirements for O’level.
“There are
767 tertiary higher institutions in Nigeria, about 560,168 candidates have been
admitted. About 20 per cent of the candidates are in SS2, they only took JAMB
for trials. 1,178,665 candidates scored above 100 in the 2018 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination,” he said.
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