Justice Musa Liman of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the transfer of a cybercrime case involving five suspects accused of hacking the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board server during the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination to the court’s Delta State division.
The judge made the order after observing that since all five defendants are residents of Delta State, prosecution would proceed more efficiently at the court’s division in that state. Counsel to the Inspector General of Police, Faith Dimka, and lawyers representing the defendants offered no objection to the transfer.
The defendants, identified as Ojiyovwi Miracle, Goodluck Ovuijeddo, Dennis Uvietesivwi, Ransome Monday and Hilda Ejohwemu, are facing a six count charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/300/2026, filed on May 22 by the IGP as complainant through prosecuting counsel Faith Dimka.
Prosecutors allege that on April 20, 2026, the five accused, without authorisation, gained remote access to the JAMB server by installing software known as RADMI on 200 systems used for the UTME Computer Based Test. The software allegedly operated those systems remotely, extracting data considered vital to national security and enabling fraudulent manipulation of the examination process.
The charge sheet further alleges that the defendants altered, erased, inputted and suppressed examination data with intent to confer economic benefit upon themselves at JAMB’s expense. Additional counts accuse them of procuring examination question papers through fraudulent devices and false pretences, conspiring to commit examination malpractice, and inducing others to engage in the same conduct during the CBT.
Counts one, two and three are punishable under the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act, 2015, as amended in 2024. Counts four, five and six attract penalties under the Examination Malpractice Act, 1999 (LFN 2004).
The case was originally scheduled for arraignment before Justice Liman in Abuja but could not proceed following the jurisdictional observation. The transfer order now directs the case file to the central registry for onward transmission to the Delta Division of the Federal High Court.
Last Updated on June 12, 2026 by Ola Funmilayo
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