2021 UTME: JAMB Explains why NIN is Mandatory

JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who said this, unveiled that the utilization of NIN as an essential for enlistment was from the Minister of Education.

As indicated by a report by Vanguard, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has clarified why it presented the utilization of National Identity Number, NIN, for enlistment of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.

As indicated by him, the thought was additionally for security reasons.

He said: “We don’t need the name of the candidate, we simply need the NIN we will at that point do the needful to pull the information of the candidate and the process will go on from that point.

in his words;

“It’s for security reasons; as far as we might be concerned, at our little level it assists us with dodging pantomime however there is a greater image of uncertainty in the country and we realize that a large number of these issues we have are brought about by ID issue, we can’t recognize each resident, where he is and what he is doing.

“Government is attempting to guarantee that we have some procedure for improving the security framework and obviously if the individuals who are coming into the tertiary organization are presented to this essential common duty, it will be a great idea to build up a culture of responsibility since responsibility begins from being recognized.”

The JAMB Registrar talked in Abuja on Friday during a virtual gathering with owners of Computer Based Test Centers, specialist co-ops and different partners to launch the 2021 UTME enrollment.

Oloyede who noticed that up-and-comers should utilize available sim cards which has never been utilized for UTME enlistment said talks were progressing with the director of Communication and Digital Economy to give an adapted waiver to an expected 20 percent of applicants without a sim card.

“We have told the National Communication Commission (NCC), moved toward the director of Communication and Digital Economy and we are cheerful that we will be allowed waiver with obviously, conditionalities which we should guarantee the up-and-comers meet.

“Not every one of the applicants are without sim, 80% of the up-and-comers as of now have their number, we are discussing the 20% and on the off chance that we are sufficiently lucky to get the waiver of the clergyman through the NCC, we will go on to ensure there is full consistence to the conditionality’s in light of the fact that it is to our greatest advantage as a country that those things that are set up ought to be permitted to secure we all.”

Oloyede likewise cautioned that no CBT center is permitted to enroll candidates for NIN, taking note of that any center found to take part in such demonstration would not be endorsed.

He said more than 100 centers were delisted between of 2020 and 2021 for different infractions including enrollment and examination misbehavior.