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The recent move by the House of Representatives to slam a five-year jail term or N500,000 fine or both on any person convicted for leaking examination questions, and a three-year jail term for persons under 18 years convicted for engaging in various forms of examination malpractices has been generating mixed reactions from Nigerians.

The proposed legislation, entitled, “Examination Malpractices Act (Repeal and Enactment) Bill, 2025(HB2097) and sponsored by the member representing Oredo Federal Constituency, Esosa Iyawe, was introduced on March 6, 2025, and is currently awaiting second reading.

The bill, according to its explanatory memorandum, sought to repeal, “The Examination Malpractice Act Cap. E15, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and enact the Examination Malpractices Act, 2025, to provide for non-custodial penalties, expand offences relating to the examination malpractices and prescribe adequate punishment for such offences.”

It further stated that minors convicted under the proposed law shall be treated in accordance with the Child Rights Act.

The bill stated that any person, who procures any question paper intended for use in any examination in the country, whether or not the question is genuine and any person who uses a technological device at any examination, is guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of N500,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or both for a person under the age of eighteen years.

However, in the case of a principal, teacher, an invigilator, a supervisor, an examiner, agent or employee of the examination body concerned with the conduct of an examination, the offence shall attract a four-year jail term without an option of fine.

Also, the parliament is proposing N400,000 or four years imprisonment or both for any person engaged to mark examination papers, who, without lawful excuse, alters or otherwise tampers or attempts to alter or tamper with the scores of a candidate as recorded by another person; or (b) employed by an examination body, who before, during or after an examination, fraudulently or without lawful authority, alters or otherwise tampers with the scores of a candidate or aids or abets any candidate to cheat at an examination.

Similarly, Section 4 of the proposed legislation stipulates that, “A candidate, who at any examination, by any fraudulent trick or device or with intent to cheat or secure an unfair advantage for himself or any other person, steals or otherwise appropriates or takes a question paper, an answer sheet or a script of any other candidate, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N500,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or both.”

The bill also stated that any person, who impersonates a candidate in an examination shall on conviction be liable to a fine of N500,000 or imprisonment for a term not more than three years or both, in the case of a person under 18 years old, while in the case of a principal, teacher, an invigilator, a supervisor, an examiner, an agent or employee of the examination body concerned with the conduct of an examination, the imprisonment shall be for a term of four years without the option of a fine.

According to Section 6(1) of the proposed law, “A candidate at an examination, who leaves the venue of the examination and mixes up with any other person with intent to cheat or secure any unfair advantage for himself or any other person in the examination, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of at least N300,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or both, and in addition, the candidate shall not be allowed to re-enter the examination hall or any other place to continue with that examination.”

Section 6(2) and (3) provides that “A person who (a) without lawful excuse, with intent to aid a candidate to cheat or secure any unfair advantage for himself or any other person at the examination, communicates or attempts to communicate to the candidate any information relating to any question paper in the examination; or (b) not being involved in the conduct of the examination, is found in or near the examination hall or any other place appointed for the examination with intent to aid a candidate to cheat or secure an unfair advantage for a candidate at the examination, commits an offence.

"A person guilty of an offence under sub-clause (2) of this section is liable on conviction (a) in the case of a person under the age of 18 years, to a fine of N500,000 or imprisonment for a term of not more than three years or to both; (b) in the case of a principal, teacher, an invigilator, a supervisor, an examiner, or an agent or employee of the examination body concerned with the conduct of an examination, to imprisonment for a term of four years without the option of a fine.”

Since the proposal became public knowledge, Nigerians have reacted variously.

While some have dismissed the lawmakers as idle people who have abandoned important issues affecting Nigerians to chase shadows, there are those who believe that it is not bad in its entirety.

One of those who believe that it is idleness that has forced the lawmakers to abandon critical problems bedeviling Nigerians to chase an infinitesimal issue as examination malpractice is the former national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and lawyer, Chief Maxi Okwu.

“I think those lawmakers are idle. There are more important issues to tackle,” he told DAILY POST.

Although he clearly stated that he would not encourage examination malpractice in any form, he argued that in order of priority of the issue bogging the nation, it shouldn’t catch the attention of the lawmakers, when terrorists and bandits are running riots, riding roughshod over the country and spilling the blood of the innocent without let or hindrance.

He said: “It is not as if I am encouraging exams malpractice, but to me, it is not a priority matter. It is not a priority at all; look at kidnappers, bandits and terrorists that go away with mayhem; they don’t want to do anything about that, it is to go after school children who engage in what I may call some malfeasance.

“Yes, there should be punishment, and by the way there is punishment already for examination malpractice in Nigeria, but like I said, if you want to improve the law, fine. But there are more important things facing the nation that they should give their attention to.

He said: “It is not as if I am encouraging exams malpractice, but to me, it is not a priority matter. It is not a priority at all; look at kidnappers, bandits and terrorists that go away with mayhem; they don’t want to do anything about that, it is to go after school children who engage in what I may call some malfeasance.

“Yes, there should be punishment, and by the way there is punishment already for examination malpractice in Nigeria, but like I said, if you want to improve the law, fine. But there are more important things facing the nation that they should give their attention to.

https://dailypost.ng/2025/04/13/mixed-reactions-trail-proposed-5-year-jail-term-for-exams-malpractice/

Nice development

I am fully in of this. We need to clean up our education system. Just that some people have gone away with it and the legislation wouldn't affect them in anyway.

Omo

Dem go jail everybody

Polithiefcians still walking free, see Yeye Bello

🤦


Terrorist are released under rehabilitation

We also need the enactment of law that will pronounce death through public execution on the looters of public Treasury in any form.

Una dey craze, like say dem no do

Kuginzi:

https://dailypost.ng/2025/04/13/mixed-reactions-trail-proposed-5-year-jail-term-for-exams-malpractice/

Bad idea. There should be punishment, but not 5 years. You need the sort of punishment that even a parent will want the kid to serve to "teach him a lesson". This 5 years, they'd bribe police to get the kid off.

You can't fight corruption from the top you fight corruption from the root

Ade de Dancer will not like this

And what have they done to those looting our common wealth

Hmmm....

All those biased and corrupt invigilators/teachers/lecturers will just be accusing some students of malpractices falsely

Terrible idea.

I don't examination malpractice but subjecting students to hefty fines or jail for years for cheating seems excessive.

It's also ironic considering this is a country that rehabilitates terrorists.

The lawmakers simply don't do anything, they just want to look good.

Until all this thrives call lawbreakers start imprisoning the corrupt officials, they don't have the right to lock up anybodys children. They should set a practical examples first.

denjjy:
We also need the enactment of law that will pronounce death through public execution on the looters of public Treasury in any form.

Beautiful....

Kuginzi:

https://dailypost.ng/2025/04/13/mixed-reactions-trail-proposed-5-year-jail-term-for-exams-malpractice/

In all of this, nobody is talking about the punishment for unexplained wealth of politicians and some public servants.

We need a law to set a maximum wage to 10000% of the minimum wage (all allowances included) and any unexplained wealth you failed to declare you take office or after becomes that of the FG. We need to get very serious about reducing corruption in public office before it will reduce the country to nothing.

Jobless arm of govt.

Schools and various exam bodies are managing the issue well already, must you put your hand into all issues even when it's not necessary

These laws are cool!

Stem out malpractice!

Go learn work or skills if your head no carry book!

This law is long overdue. The reason it's not getting the of the masses is because the average Nigerian has been swimming in and graduated from malpractices. People That DON'T engage in malpractices are in the minority. In My opinion, that's the cradle of corruption that is taking us backwards.

It's very necessary.

Many useless parents of this generation will even specially their children in "SPECIAL" centres for malpractice and expo....

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Wah abt certificate forgers...!!!
Wah abt election riggers...!!!
Take this pple serious at ur own peril

If they never crucified or roast some of those criminals parading as politicians, they will continue to rape,maim and use the citizens as foot match to satisfy their animal tendency.

Then you free terrorist within the same justice system

We need a separate country.

Some people will come for me when I say military government is better than what we are seeing now

mumu what make it nice .

Oloshi lawon Lawmakers Yi sha !!!

Where is the punishment for Public Office Holders that embezzle Billions and Trillions of Naira?

Kuginzi:

https://dailypost.ng/2025/04/13/mixed-reactions-trail-proposed-5-year-jail-term-for-exams-malpractice/

Way about looters of government treasuries

Na Ndigbo go suffer am . 99.9% of them graduated from miracle centers

Look at these ones, if you trace their source of wealth to would discovered someone of them stole money in the former office their had occupied, did they're talking nonsense here. Faruk Lawal was ones your member.

If 306 of them could volunteer to move to maiduguri to fight boko Haram I'm sure FG would provide weapons for them.

In the next four months it would be a thing of the past .

But just mention this to them, they would be sick automatically , some would fix artificial bandage to avoid going

Election riggers talking.

How about those that parade Unverifiable Chicago Certificates?🤔

What should be their punishment?🤨

This is ridiculous; students only stole answers, not money. What about politicians who steal money? How many years' jail term do they receive? Consider Yahaya Bello, who is still working freely despite his alleged financial misconduct.

Peace!