FG mulls establishment of exam malpractice tribunal

Minister of Education Dr Tunji Alausa

The Federal Government has proposed the establishment of National Examination Malpractice Court/Tribunal for prompt prosecution of examination infractions to serve as deterrent to others.

The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this while receiving a committee report on improvement of quality examinations in Abuja on Friday, May 30, 2025.

Affirming the recommendations of the 17-man committee headed by the Registrar of the Joint Administrations and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the minister said it would improve the quality of examinations in the country.

Alausa assured the committee members that all the 12-point recommendations would be implemented, noting that the government would deploy all its machineries to fight the menace of examination malpractice.

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Alausa said: “Let me assure all the committee members that you have done so much work here, and all the recommendations you have given us as a government, we will implement every single one of them.

“All the 12 recommendations that you reeled out, everyone will agree with me that none of them will be impossible to implement.

“They are all practicable things. Those that will be implemented now, we will do that right away,” he said.

The minister inaugurated the committee in January and it submitted its interim report after five months of extensive work.

In one of the recommendations, the committee urged the Federal Ministry of Education to interface with the National Assembly to enact law establishing a National Examination Malpractice Court/Tribunal for prompt prosecution of examination malpractices.

The Star