Jamb discovers 585 certified at/forged level, four arrested

… 13 cases of IJMB FALSI under the probe

The joint committee of admissions and registration has so far discovered at least 585 certified at an advanced level (at/level) in 2025, making alarm on the growing refinement of admission fraud and tertiary institutions against bypassing the central admissions processing system (caps).

The Chancellor of the Board of Directors, Professor Is-HAQ Oloyede, revealed it during a virtual meeting with the Jamb staff held in preparation for the unified tertiary registration examination of 2025 (UTME) and the main Utme.

Oloyede, who condemned the alarming rate of the falsification of the certificate, said that the discovery of the 585 false credentials was made possible through the integrated post-secondary education system of Nigeria (Niped), which was introduced to face these fraudulent practices.

“The joint commission for admissions and enrollment (Jamb) discovered at least 585 forged certified at/level certificates in 2025,” said Registrar.

“It was to curb this threat that the integrated Nigeria post-secondary education data system was established.”

He observed that a particularly worrying aspect of development was the detection of 13 IJMB (Forged Interim Joint Matriculation Board) certificates, an at/level qualification that allows candidates to guarantee the admission to direct entry to 200 levels in the Nigerian universities without sitting for Utme.

According to him, fraudulent certificates have been loaded by professional registration centers and are currently under police investigation.

“Of the 13 cases investigated by the police, four culprits were arrested and are currently assisting the police and the relevant authorities to arrest the heads of the exams of the exam,” said Oloyede.

He added that the preliminary results showed that some insiders within the institutions were accomplices of illegal activities.

“The investigations revealed that there were internal collaborators in the institutions that helped and favor this serious bad conduct,” he said.

The chancellor also denounced the extortion news of candidates in some computer -based test centers, in which students were presumably paid for officially free services.

“There have been reports from some CBT centers on the extortion of candidates for the services that should be free,” he said, describing the revelations as “stunning” and a threat to the credibility of the nation’s admission process.

Oloyede urged Jamb staff to remain vigilant and support the integrity of the exam and the admission system, warning from any act that could compromise the reputation of the Council.

The results of 2025 arrive in the wake of similar discoveries made in 2024, during which the Board of Directors has declared that it has detected 1,665 levels of level at/counterfeit level during the direct registration exercise.

Of these, 453 originated from university diplomas, 397 from college of education, while the remaining came from other/level certification sources.

At Bayero University, Kano, for example, only six on 148 certified certificates presented for admission to direct entry were authentic, pushing Jamb to increase control of the credentials presented and partners with the institutions for a thorough verification.

Since then Jamb has warned the tertiary institutions to desist from admitting candidates with false results, in particular those admitted outside the official system to process central admissions.

“Any institution has found that admitting students outside the Cap can be treated as accomplices of the falsification of the results,” said the Council.

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