JAMB: More than 10,000 candidates caught cheating in Anambra

May 21, 2017Agency Report

Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Prof. Ishaq Oloyede (R) addressing a News Conference in Abuja on Friday (7/4/17) on the proposed Computer Based Mock Examination holding Nationwide on Saturday April 8. With him is the Director of Test Administration, Dr Yusuf Lawal 02124/7/4/2017/Deborah Bada/ICE/NAN

The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) says more than 10,000 candidates caught for examination malpractices in the ongoing UTME in Anambra have been handed over to appropriate authority.

Lynda Nwachukwu, the Coordinator of the board in Anambra, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Saturday.

NAN reports that the all computer-based testing (CBT) mode 2017 UTME, which started on May 13 in 642 centres nationwide, ended on May 20.

Ms. Nwachukwu said the examination, which took place in 28 centres in the state, was successful.

“There was no disruption of the exercise in any of the examination centres,’’ she said.

The coordinator said the candidates adhered strictly to the requirements of the examination, adding that JAMB provided all the materials required for the examination.

NAN correspondent, who monitored the last batch of the examination, reports that some parents complained of system failure in some CBT centres in the state.

Eucharia Okonkwo, a parent, said her daughter, who wrote the examination at the St Mary’s High School Ifite-Dunu centre, could not complete the examination due to the faulty computer and network failure at the centre.

According to her daughter, many candidates could not complete the questions in record time because of the faulty system.

Ms. Okonkwo advised JAMB to plan well for examination in subsequent years to avoid the technical hitches that could give the candidates psychological trauma.

Mose Mojekeh, Head, Department of Marketing at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, told NAN on telephone that such system failure in UTME was not acceptable.

According to him, the hiccups could potentially deny young people from Anambra State university admission.

Mr. Mojekeh advised JAMB to urgently collate the number of candidates affected and set another examination for them.

He also decried the practice whereby JAMB sends officials from one state to supervise examinations in another state.

“Experience has shown that such officials do not care much about the candidates when problems arise, as they leave them to their fate,’’ the lecturer said.

He called on the management of schools, whose candidates experienced the computer failure, to take their complaints to the State Ministry of Education to present their cases.

JAMB concluded the 2017 CBT UTME on May 20.

(NAN)

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Abdullah Musa

Of course!
They read the gospel of Jonathan: mere cheating is not corruption.
- aboki
  
  We know THEM by their CHARACTERS as
  a. Cheats in all form of activities
  b. 419ners
  c. Drug Pushing business
  d. FORGERY
  e. ARM ROBBERY
  f. BABY FACTORIES Operators
  To mentioned but few of WAILING WAILERS negative vices
  - Abdullah Musa
    
    May Allah open their heart to Islaam.
    - God Heal Nigeria Forsake Not N
      
      Islaam of shekau ,Osama ,Isis and buhari?,Islsam of pedeophile Mohammad CBUH( curse be upon him). God forbid that Jews shall open their heart to the worship of sun ,moon,and stars instead of Yahweh.
      - Abdullah Musa
        
        Apparently you are one of the cheaters.
        Two, you do not intend to stop.
        Three, you were brought up to love vile language.
        May Allah illuminate your heart with light of Islaam.
      - God Heal Nigeria Forsake Not N
        
        What cheating is worst than the cheating of quoter system, where a candidate from anambra will be given a cut off mark of 250 while the one from zamfara ,kano,Bornu,sokoto,katsina will be given a 0 cut off mark to enter the same university or institution. Is that not worst than corruption?, what is worst than corruption when buhari gave katsina 55 slots in DSS recruitment and gave akwa ibom 6 in the same exercise.
        The roll call of those who stole Nigeria blind from Gowon to Jonathan have majority of names like umaru diko,abacha,ibb,dasuki,amosu,tafa balogun,Alex bade,yakubu,Mohammed, nyako,lamido ,atiku,babangida,etc etc.
        Majority of those names ,have the light of your Islam already in their hearts yet it did not stop them from being corrupt.
        May God never allow me to worship the same god with Mohammed (CBUH)ghadaffi,sadam,shekau,buhari,and you that hate the truth and loves lying.
      - Abdullah Musa
        
        One can be born a Muslim and refuse to live by its message.
        I do not need to give you a list of southerners who were corrupt right from first republic.
        Were you a Muslim you would not curse a Prophet.
        No matter how much you provoke me I cannot curse Jesus, peace be upon him.
        That is the difference between Muslim and non-Muslim.
        May Allah guide you to Islaam.
Julius

ipob at work . They wanted the bragging right as usual.
amazing2012

Igbo must steal even in their grave ! Idiots no comment. If this occur in Kano, chai the issue will have become national discussion !!
Thieves and cursed race !!!
- nostradamus
  
  Mr terrorist can you compare Hausa that has all the sicknesses on earth to any Igboman ?inferiority complex.we see your almajiri kids begging everywhere. I know you as one that thinks with his anus remember my encounter with you on daily post?have you arrested your brother shekau ?
Abdussalami Yaro

Ahahhhhh! Na wa wo! 10,000 cheaters in one southern state. We know this have been going on for donkey years. There is nothing new about this.
- Arabakpura
  
  If they were handed over to police, it means there would be a spillover of detention camps to neighboring states! The story is not accurate! Media houses now do all to sell their stables!
Deansmart

They have done what they do best cheating and stealing
JasV

Even the Prof is having ‘eye attack” not heart attack. Please don’t kill our Prof with this type of unbelievable figure of fraudsters. Na wah O
- God Heal Nigeria Forsake Not N
  
  This report is only fit for hate ,envy and jealousy overcharged souls like you,you dare not even care to use your God given brain to consider how fake this report is ,once you see bad news report about IBO ,you go to market to sell your hidden hate venom without any check and balancing. Shame on you.
Rominiyis

Anambra came first in WASC exam! Some blogs taunt that. Now is everything alright with that too? Its mostly same candidates that proceed to sit for UTME
- God Heal Nigeria Forsake Not N
  
  This report is only fit for hate ,envy and jealousy overcharged souls like you,you dare not even care to use your God given brain to consider how fake this report is ,once you see bad news report about IBO ,you go to market to sell your hidden venom without any check and balancing. Shame on you.
  - Rominiyis
    
    You are overacting. I did not mention igbo. There are igbo in other states too. You just carry everything on your head and read tribes into it
- Arabakpura
  
  Just find out for us the police stations where they took the 10000 cheating candidates!
God Heal Nigeria Forsake Not N

The headline is different from the body of the news,if 10000 were caught with exam malpractices ,how was that possible when the same report stated ….
‘Ms. Nwachukwu said the examination, which took place in 28 centres in the state, was successful.
“There was no disruption of the exercise in any of the examination centres,’’ she said.
The coordinator said the candidates adhered strictly to the requirements of the examination, adding that JAMB provided all the materials required for the examination ‘.
Where in Nigeria where ten thousands students handed over to ‘appropriate authorities’, basically police and no news media covered such handing over.
Nigerian news media have become junk dissemination centers ,playing with the intelligence of their myopic,hate, tribal and ethnic bigoted readers.what a pity.
Shahokaya

Very hard working industrious Ibofrauds, no wonder they are first in waec and neco.
- God Heal Nigeria Forsake Not N
  
  This report is only fit for hate ,envy and jealousy overcharged souls like you,you dare not even care to use your God given brain to consider how fake this report is ,once you see bad news report about IBO ,you go to market to sell your hidden venom without any check and balancing. Shame on you.ok
  - Ogunsetan Adekunle G
    
    The fact! Which fact again? JAMB announced and you said it must be verified again. Cover your face in shame. However, cheating is not limited to Ibos.
    - Arabakpura
      
      Can you find out the police station(s) where they are kept?
- Iskacountryman
  
  na nyamiri ingenuity…
- Folahan
  
  How many people were caught cheating in other Northern states as its obvious that most cant speak English if i compare them to the chibok girls that couldn’t speak english and i am sure even more dont even know how to use a computer let alone seen one.
  - Shahokaya
    
    If what you wrote here was what they taught you in English lessons than you must have cheated in your exams.
KBE

That’s how they have been leading in the WAEC. In every thing they lead in ……. Thanks goodness for CCTV. WAEC needs to open their eyes as well.
Arabakpura

This report is not correct and somebody should quickly correct it! How can JAMB hand over 10000 to police? Our country is saily becoming a mockery! In the same story they are talking of remedying those short-changed by malfunctioned computers! Incredible!
isioku

I am not understanding this report (in a manner of speaking) You said it was “successful” and without “disruption” yet some 10k candidates cheated. It was “successful” yet there was system clitches and hiccups that could deny a majority of candidates in that state admission opportunities? A whopping 10k people have been handed over to “appropriate authorities” in a space of a few days and being kept where? This is a very sensational and incoherent report that makes no sense. That said, I expect some cheats to test the new system not just in Anambra but nationwide.
AFRICANER

Two Abokis in charge of JAMB?

Look, the North developed an inferiority complex when The emir of Kano criticized the north’s poor performances in statistics compared to other regions; obviously, these abokis are out to level the field: by bringing down the south, not raising the north…
- Huzaifa Bn Imam Al-yamaani
  
  what an insensitive comment. I guess you are referring to the registrar and the director of examinations being of Hausa decent as “abokis”, For your information the registrar is Yoruba not Hausa. When you are profiling people based on ethnicity, race or religion, at least get your facts straight. Bigot
  - AFRICANER
    
    Sensitive response. Yoruba Muslims are the same as aboki.