Uchechukwu Chinyelu Nrabalu

Introduction

Uchechukwu Chinyelu Nrabalu is a nurse who was removed from the register of the United Kingdom’s Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on 8 April 2026, when the regulator’s Investigating Committee directed that her entry be erased because it had been fraudulently procured. Registered with the NMC under number 23A1749O, she qualified in Nigeria in 2020, in adult nursing, and entered the UK register on the strength of an application that included a Computer Based Test (CBT) result the committee later found to have been obtained through fraud. The decision is recorded by MedicWatch, an independent record of UK healthcare regulator decisions.

Background Information

For nurses trained outside the UK, the CBT is a gateway requirement of registration with the NMC: the test of competence an applicant must pass as part of the application to join the register. Nrabalu sat her CBT on 23 May 2022 at the Yunnik Technologies Limited test centre in Ibadan, Nigeria, and subsequently joined the NMC register.

The test centre she used later became the focus of regulatory concern. In March 2023, Pearson VUE — which administers the test — identified that the Yunnik test centre in Ibadan had been delivering exams in unusually short times suggestive of fraudulent behaviour, likely linked to proxy testing, the practice of having someone other than the named candidate sit the examination. The NMC subsequently declared CBT results obtained at the centre void due to concerns about the manner in which tests were being conducted there.

Nrabalu’s practitioner profile records that she qualified in Nigeria in 2020 and that her speciality was adult nursing.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings against Uchechukwu Chinyelu Nrabalu were made on the balance of probabilities by a Nursing and Midwifery Council Investigating Committee and are not criminal convictions. Charge 1 was found proved; the alternative charge, built on the NMC’s declaration that results from the test centre were void, did not need to be decided.

The charge the committee heard was that, as part of her application to join the NMC register, Nrabalu submitted or caused to be submitted a CBT result obtained at the Yunnik Technologies Limited test centre in Ibadan, Nigeria, on 23 May 2022 that had been obtained through fraud — and that her entry on the register was accordingly fraudulently procured. In the alternative, it was alleged that the result she submitted had been declared void by the NMC because of concerns about the conduct of tests at the centre, making her entry on the register incorrectly made.

The evidence that decided the matter was timing. Nrabalu completed the numeracy component of the CBT — for which 30 minutes were allowed — in 5.15 minutes, and the clinical component, for which 150 minutes were allowed, in 13.55 minutes. The panel found that these test times were exceptionally fast compared to global test times.

The panel also examined her account of annotations to her practice materials. It found inconsistencies in when and by whom the annotations were said to have been made, and concluded that her version of events was not credible. On the balance of probabilities it found Charge 1 proved — that her CBT result had been obtained through fraud.

Public Reaction and Consequences

On the fraud finding, the committee did not stop at marking the test result invalid: it directed the Registrar to remove Nrabalu’s entry from the register altogether under Article 26(7) of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, on the basis that the registration itself had been fraudulently procured. Erasure is the most severe sanction available to the NMC, and grounding it in fraudulent procurement treated the dishonesty as going to the very validity of her registration rather than to conduct within practice.

The case also forms part of the public record of the proxy-testing concern that engulfed the Ibadan test centre after Pearson VUE’s March 2023 identification of abnormally short exam times there. Independent record services such as MedicWatch now document the outcome against Nrabalu’s name and registration number, so any employer, agency or member of the public checking her registration encounters both the erasure and the fraud finding behind it.

Current Status

As of the decision date of 8 April 2026, Uchechukwu Chinyelu Nrabalu stands erased from the NMC register — struck off — with the Registrar directed to remove her entry because it was fraudulently procured. The hearing had opened on 2 April 2025 and ended on 8 April 2026, when the Investigating Committee handed down its decision. Her current registration status can be checked on the official NMC register.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends Nrabalu’s ability to practise as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom. Because the finding is that her entry on the register was fraudulently procured, it goes to the legitimacy of her registration itself rather than to her clinical conduct after it — a categorically more damaging basis for removal than impairment findings tied to performance. The panel’s conclusion that her explanation of the annotations to her practice materials was not credible compounds the difficulty, since dishonesty findings are weighted most heavily in any future regulatory assessment.

The determination is a permanent part of the public record, documented against her name and NMC registration number 23A1749O. Any future application for UK registration — or employment that requires disclosure of regulatory history — carries the fraud finding with it, and the qualification in adult nursing she earned in Nigeria in 2020 is now shadowed by the manner in which her UK registration was obtained.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Uchechukwu Chinyelu Nrabalu — Struck off the register · 8 April 2026 | MedicWatch” (Nursing and Midwifery Council determination, decision date 8 April 2026).source
• MedicWatch, “Uchechukwu Chinyelu Nrabalu — Struck off the register | Nursing and Midwifery Council 23A1749O” (practitioner profile).source