JAMB Panel Unmasks 4,251 Finger Blends, 190 AI Cheats In 2025 UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has received a study from its Special Committee connected Examination Infractions (SCEI), exposing however technology-driven malpractice was undermining Nigeria’s admittance process.

Presenting the study successful Abuja connected Monday to the JAMB Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, Chairman of the Committee, Dr. Jake Epelle revealed that the squad uncovered 4,251 cases of “finger blending” and 190 instances of AI-assisted impersonation done representation morphing during its investigations into the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The panel, inaugurated connected August 18, 2025, was tasked with probing rising infractions, reviewing JAMB’s systems, and recommending reforms.

Dr. Epelle described the duty arsenic much than administrative, but a motivation obligation, a nationalist service, and a combat for the psyche of meritocracy successful Nigeria.

Beyond digit blending and AI impersonation, the committee documented 1,878 mendacious disablement claims, forged credentials, aggregate National Identification Number (NIN) registrations, and collusion betwixt candidates and introspection syndicates.

According to Epelle, malpractice has go highly organised, technology-driven, and dangerously normalised. He warned that parents, tutorial centres, schools, and adjacent immoderate CBT operators were complicit successful the fraud, portion anemic ineligible frameworks made enforcement difficult.

In bid to reclaim integrity successful admissions, the committee urged JAMB to follow a multi-pronged effect that includes deploying AI-powered biometric anomaly tools, real-time monitoring, and a cardinal Examination Security Operations Centre.

Also recommended by the Committee was cancellation of fraudulent results, imposing bans of 1 to 3 years, prosecuting offenders and collaborators, and establishing a Central Sanctions Registry to beryllium accessible to institutions and employers.

On prevention, the sheet called for digitising correction processes, strengthening disablement verification, tightening mobile-first platforms, and outlawing bulk school-led registrations.

It further advised ineligible reforms done amendments to the JAMB Act and Examination Malpractice Act to recognise biometric and integer fraud, arsenic good arsenic the instauration of a Legal Unit wrong JAMB.

The committee besides stressed the request for taste reorientation, urging a nationwide Integrity First campaign, embedding of morals successful schoolhouse curricula, and parental accountability for aiding malpractice.

For under-18 offenders, it recommended rehabilitative measures nether the Child Rights Act, including counseling and supervised re-registration alternatively than punitive sanctions.

The committee warned that unless urgent reforms were implemented, the credibility of Nigeria’s acquisition strategy volition beryllium further eroded.

“If near unchecked, introspection malpractice volition proceed to erode merit, undermine nationalist trust, and destruct the precise instauration of Nigeria’s acquisition and quality superior development,” Epelle said.