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UK nursing council to probe over 500 Nigerians over ‘fraudulent’ exam results
This comes after it was revealed that the applicants might have engaged in exam fraud at a test centre in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The NMC maintains a registry of eligible professionals who can practice as nurses, nursing associates, and midwives in the UK.
To gain entry into this registry, international professionals must complete two assessments, including a Computer-Based Test (CBT) typically administered in their home country and a practical test in the UK.
Following an investigation into the activities of Yunnik Technologies, an Oyo State-based test centre, evidence of extensive fraudulent activity was uncovered in connection with its CBT services.
According to the Guardian, the investigation was initiated after the NMC was alerted to incidents of manipulated results at the test centre in May.
A report published by the UK journal Nursing Standard revealed that the NMC subsequently uncovered that a significant number of Nigerian applicants had fraudulently acquired results from Yunnik Technologies.
As a result of this revelation, over 1,950 candidates who presented results from the Ibadan-based test center are now required to retake the test.
Furthermore, the NMC identified evidence of proxy testers at the test center, with suspicions that 48 out of the 515 professionals who took the test at the center had fraudulently registered.
