JONAED

The Nigerian society has for over the years been battling with increasing incidence of examination malpractice. Stakeholders are concerned about the new trends thereof. Efforts made to eradicate examination malpractice in the school system seemed not to be yielding expected results considering the rate at which parents, students, teachers, school and examination administrators are involved in it. Governments at different times in the history of Nigeria have come up with one committee, promulgation of degree/edicts, or the other to stamp out examination malpractice in the Nigerian school system (Bisong, Akpama & Edet, 2009). In spite of these efforts, recent trends have seen the establishment of ‘miracle/special centres’ for perpetration of these crimes in brazen disregard to existing laws of the country. It looks as if it is now another ‘drug business’ with its attendant hydra headed manifestations. It has been code-named in such a way that one with little knowledge of this ‘crime world’ will hardly understand what those codes stand for. To Boris and Awodun (2012), examination malpractice in Nigeria has graduated from mere ‘giraffing’ to more frightening sophisticated and institutionalized dimensions.