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The Department of State Services, DSS, and the Nigerian Police Force, have arrested at least 20 suspects over hacking of the 2025 computer-based test, CBT, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
The 2025 UTME was conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB.
AIT reports that the suspects are part of a syndicate believed to have over 100 persons who specialise in hacking of the computer servers of examination bodies like JAMB and the National Examinations Council, NECO.
According to the report, security sources confirmed that the suspects have confessed to sabotaging the CBT system in order to discredit JAMB and discourage students from using CBT for future examinations to be conducted by NECO and the West African Examination Council, WAEC.
“The syndicate would install an attacking software on the examination body hardware. The software, in turn, would remotely hack JAMB servers at any targeted CBT centre,” the source quoted one of the suspect as confessing.
The entire hacking process was to influence high scores for special candidates who paid between N700,000 and N2 million.
The report further added that preliminary investigations revealed that several members of the syndicate own private schools and colleges, and make huge sums of money from their special centres.
In other news, Electricity workers in Katsina State have embarked on an indefinite strike over the non-payment of pension entitlements allegedly withheld for more than eight years.
The action, led by members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), began officially on Wednesday and affects staff of the Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO), which supplies power across Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa states.
Speaking to a local Newspaper, the Northwest Zonal Coordinator of NUEE, Comrade Sani Muhammad Ahmad, confirmed that the union had sealed off KEDCO’s Katsina branch office along Kano Road in protest after several failed attempts to resolve the issue through dialogue.
