In this report, Damilola BANJO, who went undercover as Grace Adebiga, and Habeeb OLADAPO, expose examination malpractices in a popular Lagos school during the last WAEC and JAMB exams.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--5Hmu1d0_c

OVER the years, there has been a consistent increase in the number of students seeking tertiary education in Nigeria. Over 1.5 million young people in Nigeria sit for the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and slightly above the number sit for the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board Examination (JAMB).

In 2019, the year of this investigation, exactly 1,590,173 students registered for the West African examination and 1.8 million sat for the JAMB. Out of this number, just a little over 600,000 got admission into the different tertiary institutions available in the country.

The number of admission seekers far outnumber the available slots in the tertiary institutions. This has created a huge competition for limited spaces hence the desperate moves by students, parents and teachers who have resorted to sharp practices at every level to beat the system, thereby edging out honest students with their fraudulently acquired superlative results.

Examination malpractice has flourished in Nigeria for a long time and many people have created an illegal business around their ability to outsmart the system, as revealed in this investigation.

After documenting stories on how results are easily bought at Bachel Academy, Damilola BANJO and Habib OLADAPO investigate some of the claims.

In this Investigation, Banjo, under the pseudonym of Grace Adebiga enrolled at Bachel Academy in Egbeda area of Lagos State, for both WASSCE and JAMB examination.

Grace Adebiga is a 25-year-old rice seller, who wanted to get tertiary education. She would need to write WASSCE and JAMB in order to achieve her goal of gaining a tertiary education. For six months, Grace went through the Bachel Academy as an admission seeker who was too busy to study but willing to pay for the needed grades. She registered for the 2019 WASSCE and JAMB in the school where she documented evidence of extortion, bribery and examination fraud.

Not all that glitter is genuine

Bachel College, and its other affiliates, like the Bachel Academy, are popular for churning out good WASSCE results and well above 200 JAMB scores. On the school’s Facebook page, a former student shared how she made her O’level result at Bacheal Academy after five failed attempts elsewhere.

“Mr bachel is the only solution for all the people in the nation that see education as the problem of our nation like me now have loss hope about all this education stuff have been doing waec gce neco for almost good five years but i thank god today because have make my result math b3 phys b3 chem b3 eng c5 biology c6 bachel is too much and one thing is that some people didn’t know that we used our money to buy our self good things love bachel once again (sic),” the student, Humble Sinner, praised the school.

This would have been commendable if the results were achieved through hard work but the cue to how students of Bachel make outstanding grades is obvious in the disjointed and grammatical blunder in the testimonial of Humble Sinner. The lack of punctuation and capitalization would have earned Sinner a grade way below C6 but at Bachel even a ‘sinner’ can be made a saint.

Bachel is one of the notable private schools in Lagos by all standards. It has state-of-the art secondary schools in Ayobo, Ogba and Egbeda areas of Lagos State. The school at Ayobo is built on a large expanse of land with a lush green field for recreation. The level of examination fraud perpetrated in all the branches of Bachel schools is antithetical to the quiet exterior at the Ayobo branch.

With well over 2,000 students in its three branches, including the tutorial centre, Bachel has the capacity and infrastructure to be in the business of education, but lacks integrity to inspire value of hard work in its students.

This would have been commendable if the results were achieved through hard work but the cue to how students of Bachel make outstanding grades is obvious in the disjointed and grammatical blunder in the testimonial of Humble Sinner. The lack of punctuation and capitalization would have earned Sinner a grade way below C6 but at Bachel even a ‘sinner’ can be made a saint.

Bachel is one of the notable private schools in Lagos by all standards. It has state-of-the art secondary schools in Ayobo, Ogba and Egbeda areas of Lagos State. The school at Ayobo is built on a large expanse of land with a lush green field for recreation. The level of examination fraud perpetrated in all the branches of Bachel schools is antithetical to the quiet exterior at the Ayobo branch.

With well over 2,000 students in its three branches, including the tutorial centre, Bachel has the capacity and infrastructure to be in the business of education, but lacks integrity to inspire value of hard work in its students.

Founded on September 15, 2006, Bachel positioned itself as the epitome of quality education in Nigeria, providing “unique, outstanding and remarkable academic service to Nigerians and foreigners of different social-status in its four standard schools at Ogba, Ayobo and Ikotun, with several academy centers in Lagos and Ogun metropolis,”

“We simply provide technical and professional standards required to bring out the best, useful and hidden potentials in students through a team of dynamic management and passionate professionals who frown at failure,” it claimed on its official website.

However, behind the walls, there is an organised system of examination fraud. The sterling grades being flaunted by Sinner, and many of its students, are the result of organised exam fraud. Everyone in the school, including WAEC officials, play a part in this malpractice. The students, and the gatemen, are not left out; they all are fully involved.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/investigation-inside-a-lagos-state-school-where-a1-can-be-bought-part-1/

Every jamb period come and see crowd in front of that school
I know the school will cast one year , or more business for them oooo

I bought my beng second class upper 400k in a federal university of technology

Land bought Lalasticlala

This is the sad reality of events in our educational system!

And the worst part is that these people with fraudulent results end up putting honest students at disadvantages.

Even our higher institutions are not left out!

This piece was on the news last week.

The problem is not the schools. They are merely "keying in to the opportunities creates by the Government, Examination Bodies".

Until there is. a political will on the side of government to change the system for good and WAEC, NECO, JAMB, etc to stick to its principles, nothing worth it will be achieved

miracle centers.....
was guilty too and paid 15k for waec in one of its branch inside lagos...
my main aim was to pass maths because i was just too bad in maths maybe its because of my unserious maths teacher back then in sec. skul..
the d-day came and we were asked to pay extra 1k each to settle the stubborn holy looking invigilator that came to preside that maths exam and we all played along and wished she accept after hearing that she is an elder in deeper life..
she didnt accept but just left the hall for assistant that collected the cash after much begging saying she can't be part of such injustice..
we happily "copied" all maths answers on the board and submitted but when the results came out i was shocked when i see my beautiful f9 gallantly looking at me...
till today i don't know if its because the miracle center gave us a fake miracle or if its that invigilator's handwork..

Jman06:
This is the sad reality of events in our educational system!

And the worst part is that these people with fraudulent results end up putting honest students at disadvantages.

Even our higher institutions are not left out!

You've said it all.

SweetCunt97:
Well, I used this same Bachel Academy years ago. Wetin man go do.

Na dem

Sirwallace:



Mr runs pls speak for yourself.

I wrote my first WAEC on my own in a public secondary with no single help from nobody. made A in maths, B in further maths and all my science subject after all my results were held for almost a year.

in my GCE, after all the threat and all, I refused to burge for their stupid runs. cleared my papers and was proud of it.

truth is many of you are not smart.

Jman06 post=92153521:
The fact that you did runs doesn't mean everyone else did!

In light of the Revelations appearing in the comments, let me review my runs certainty percentage to a 99.3% of Nairalanders

So? If not for runs how many of you for pass WAEC
Abegi,runs have been saving lives since buharis first recession.
I remember that time we were all forming bright students, only for me to jam waec maths and begin rethinking the Engineering wey I talk say I wan study.
To God,na runs save us that year.
Even seun cannot swear he didn't do runs.
A solid 100% of Nairalanders who are going to view and comment on this thread did runs..

hmmmmmmmmm. pls how much?

CASTING.

Ok..hmm fish dey smell

Nigeria my country

Lord lugard, anywhere you are you will not see peace oo.

Where do we go from here

well.... waec is one of the most difficult exam..
u are gonna wrt ...before making it to the uni..
some of the questions asked most of the students hasn't been thought... should they keep failing...
though exam malpractice is very bad.... but it has good side shall.. especially went u are frustrated in exam hall...

pls forgive them...

This is common practice in Nigeria. If you want to see much of these, just go to Edo state. It's the capital of WAEC fraud.

The truth is, we always blame the government for everything; trust me, to lead is not easy and almost every individual is part of the problem.

They are the ones accusing the east of malpractice.

Small thing they'll start saying Merit only exists in the south! Good and hardworking people are everywhere.

That was how Ebenezer came A.B.U ZARIA to just trash those unintelligent abokis and get first class! But guess what!
He said this himself "when I was in secondary school, I thought I was a gifted, not until I came to ABU Zaria Pharmacy Faculty, E E my brother".
Yet the best graduating student in their class that year was Chibuzor Levi (very humble and intelligent guy who graduated with a CGPA of 4.88)

Work hard and smartly but don't belittle others

I cum in peace

Shehuyinka:


“We simply provide technical and professional standards required to bring out the best, useful and hidden potentials in students through a team of dynamic management and passionate professionals who frown at failure,” it claimed on its official website.”

https://www.icirnigeria.org/investigation-inside-a-lagos-state-school-where-a1-can-be-bought-part-1/

It is all private schools

Special centers

Miracle centres, such centres are all over Nigeria. Mostly done by private schools.

Hmmmm

Braintrain:
I bought my beng second class upper 400k in a federal university of technology

And shame no dey catch you to open your mouth and say this?

How times have changed for the worse. During my university days such things were unheard of, there really was a country

See as them finally cast Bachel Academy internationally.

If you be Mainland pesin, particularly Alimosho and u no sabi Bachel, u no sabi school