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September 25, 2019
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMBhas called on all prospective candidates for its 2020 UTME to acquire the NationalIdentification Number NIN.
The board’s Spokesman, Fabian Benjamin said that theaim was to ensure the biometric and other necessary details of a candidate werecaptured, to check examination malpractice.
Benjamin said in a statement in Lagos that the callwas necessary, now that registration for the 2020 Unified TertiaryMatriculation Examination UTME had begun.
According to Benjamin, the board has made adequatearrangement with the NIMC for prospective candidates to be registered at theexamination centres or with its licensed agents.
He said that for such candidates who had registeredand had acquired the NIN before attaining the age of 16, they would be requiredto update their NIN registration status before registering for the UTME.