The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB has called on all prospective candidates for its 2020 UTME to acquire the National Identification Number NIN.
The board’s Spokesman, Fabian Benjamin said that the aim was to ensure the biometric and other necessary details of a candidate were captured, to check examination malpractice.
Benjamin said in a statement in Lagos that the call was necessary, now that registration for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME had begun.
According to Benjamin, the board has made adequate arrangement with the NIMC for prospective candidates to be registered at the examination centres or with its licensed agents.
He said that for such candidates who had registered and had acquired the NIN before attaining the age of 16, they would be required to update their NIN registration status before registering for the UTME.
