mitrobeIs NIN Compulsory For JAMB Registration 2021? What is NIN? How can I get NIN for JAMB 2021 registration? I am going to answer all these questions in this guide, so stay tuned.
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Is NIN Compulsory For JAMB 2021 Registration
Simple answer: Yes.
JAMB has announced that the use of NIN has been made compulsory for 2021 JAMB registration for both UTME and Direct Entry candidates.
Oloyede explained that the directive for the use of NIN as a prerequisite for registration was from the Minister of Education, saying the motive was also for security reasons.
Oloyede, who spoke in Abuja on Friday during a virtual meeting with owners of Computer Based Test Centres, service providers and other stakeholders to kickstart the 2021 UTME registration, also warned that no CBT is allowed to register candidates for NIN, adding that any centre found to engage in such act would be sanctioned.
“We don’t even require the name of the candidate, we just want the NIN we will then do the needful to pull the data of the candidate and the process will go on from there,” Oloyede said.
“Its for security reasons; for us at our small level it helps us to avoid impersonation but there is a bigger picture of insecurity in the country and we know that many of this problems we have is because we have identification problem, we cannot identify every citizen, where he is and what he is doing.
“Government is trying to ensure that we have some strategy for improving the security system and of course if those who are coming in to the tertiary institution are exposed to this basic civil responsibility, it will be good to develop a culture of accountability because accountability starts from being identified.”
“We have told the National Communication Commission (NCC), approached the minister of Communication and Digital Economy and we are hopeful that we will be granted waiver with of course, conditionalities which we must ensure the candidates meet,” he said.
“Not all the candidates are without SIM cards, 80 percent of the candidates already have their number, we are talking of the 20 percent and if we are fortunate enough to secure the waiver of the minister through the NCC, we will go ahead to make sure there is full compliance to the conditionalities because it is in our interest as a nation that those things that are put in place should be allowed to protect all of us.”
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