JAMB To UTME Candidates: No NIN, No 2020 UTME
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has advised candidates who wish to take part in the 2020 Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to register with the National
Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to enable them obtain the National
Identification Number (NIN).
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| LEFT: JAMB Registrar, RIGHT: JAMB logo |
According to JAMB, the NIN would be compulsory for UTME registration next year
and only candidates with NIN would be allowed to sit for the examination next
year.
In view of this, all candidates desiring to
register for the 2020 UTME, other JAMB processes, are urged to visit the
nearest NIMC centre or its licensed agents for the NIN registration ahead of
the UTME registration, if they have not done so as the board has made
arrangements with NIMC for candidates who do not have the NIN to be registered
at the centre by NIMC or its licensed agents.
The board
also has disclosed that it would no longer need to capture the biometrics of
candidates during UTME registration next year as the information of candidates
required by the board would be uploaded from the data captured by the NIMC for
registration.
Commenting
on this, the JAMB's Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, explained that
the NIN would guard against all forms of registration infractions.
He
mentioned that candidates would be required to present their NIN at the point
of registration.
He also
advised candidates who had registered and acquired the NIN before attaining the
age of 16 to update their NIN registration status before proceeding for the
UTME registration.
“If a
candidate has NIN but has misplaced the number, he/she can retrieve the NIN by
either going to any NIMC office/its licensed agents or dialing *346# (USSD
Code) on the SIM number earlier used to register for the NIN and the NIN would
be sent to the candidate.
“If
he/she does not have the SIM number used for the NIN registration, such a
candidate should visit the nearest NIMC centre or any of its licensed agents.
“Candidate’s
name, as arranged on the NIMC data base, would be same on JAMB data after
registration.
“If any
candidate has complaints of name arrangement such a candidate should first
rectify such issue with NIMC before proceeding for registration,” he added.
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