There Is No Going Back On Use Of National ID Card For UTME – JAMB Declares
According to a record by means of TheCable, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says no amount of “smear marketing campaign” can save you it from using the National Identity Management Number (NIM) in the behavior of its exams. Ishaq Oloyede, the board’s registrar, spoke on Wednesday all through a meeting with CBT centres, technical advisors, and service providers on the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna state. JAMB had earlier introduced its partnership with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to clampdown on impersonation and other types of examination malpractice in advance of its coming near near Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). In the wake of its choice to use NIM for the duration of the 2020 UTME, Oloyede said the ones benefitting from registration and exam frauds have persevered to mount a negative campaign in opposition to the NIMC.
He also said the board had reduced the number of available exam centres in a crackdown on instances wherein candidates pay between N200,000 to N300,000 to some individuals to write the exam for them. “With the current marketing campaign towards NIMC, I ought to see planned efforts at jogging the commission down in order that we can bear in mind not participating with them. Those benefitting from registration scandals are mounting a marketing campaign against NIMC,” he stated. “We are participating with NIMC. They are upright and just last week, 5 body of workers had been sacked due to the fact they amassed bribe. So as you engage with NIMC, don’t have it in thoughts that you are interacting with corrupt people, no, they’re not. “Unless I’m wrong, more than 40 in step with cent of our applicants have obtained their NIN while the last ones are strolling helter-skelter to have theirs.”