The joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has insisted that only prospective candidates with the National Identity Number (NIN) will register and sit for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin who spoke to BusinessDay on Friday maintained that the board is not going back on its decision and warned that as registration commences January, candidates without the NIN cannot register for the exams.
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The board had fixed the 14th of March to April 4 2020 for the the examination while the registration for UTME candidates and Direct Entry will begin January 13 and end on February 17, 2020.
The JAMB registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, had noted that the essence of the NIN for registration is to curb cases of multiple registration and other forms of malpractices perpetrated in the UTME process.
However, the House of Representatives had called on the board to delay implementation of the policy until 2021, in order to allow more time and better awareness for prospective candidates saying the planned use of the NIN was too sudden, and may lead to denial of several Nigerians the opportunity to seek admissions into tertiary institutions.
