NIMC Plans UTME Candidates Registration in Abuja, Lagos, Kano Saturday

Following difficulties and complaints of alleged extortion of
candidates hoping to sit for the Joint Admission and Matriculations
Board (JAMB) Examination by staff of the National Identity
Management Commission (NIMC), over the mandatory registration and
possession of National Identification number, the Commission
announced special arrangement whereby centers in Lagos, Kano and
Abuja would register them Saturday.

The Commission made the intervention through its tweeter handle
where it explained that only students would be registered at the
various centers in the three states saturday

“All NIMC enrolment centres in Abuja, Kano and Lagos will open
on Saturday, January 11, 2020 to enroll UTME/DE candidates
only.

“Candidates should come along with their school means of
identification and required documents for the NIN enrolment
exercise,” the Commission announced.

This may have been due to difficulties experienced by
candidates, and other Nigerians seeking to obtain the NIN who
usually besiege registration centers as early as 5am daily and
still fail to register, fueling apprehension that some intending
JAMB candidates might miss registration.

JAMB had on October 17, 2019, announced that only candidates
with the NIN would be registered for the 2020 UTME

Notwithstanding the inability of many candidates to obtain the
NIN within the week, added to network issues occasioning slow pace
of the exercise, JAMB said it would not heed calls to cancel or
review the possession of NIN as prerequisite for registration of
the examination.

Allegations had been rife by candidates seeking enrolment that
officials of NIMC and touts fronting for them had cashed on the
glitches to extort money from them and other Nigerians.

It was alleged that sums ranging between N500 and N2,000 from
candidates were being extorted from the hapless candidates.
NIMC however had assured of putting in all efforts to ensure that
no intending JAMB candidate was left unregistered before the due
date of the exercise.

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