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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has placed most of the hitches encountered by applicants during registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) on their failure to follow simple instructions.
Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, stated this during visits to computer-based test centres in Kogo – Bwari, and Garki 2 on Wednesday, saying over 80 percent of registration problems were linked to candidates’ faults.
According to him, many of the candidates failed to follow simple instructions on the registration processes put in place by the Board, adding that over 80 per cent of the challenges encountered were self-created by the candidates.
The Registrar said: “Many of them (candidates) were sending wrong things and commands for NIN, making NIMC unable to verify such numbers.
“The problems are self-created by the candidates; you are sending messages for a profile code and no credit of N50,” adding that despite the extension, the number of applicants who had registered for the examination fell drastically until towards the closing date, as only 1.38 million candidates procured the PIN for registration, while 1.37 million completed their registration.
JAMB had, on May 15, 2021, extended the registration timeline to May 29 due to the complaints by members of the public which varied from issues of the National Identification Number.
“But despite the extension, there are still complaints of inability to register by applicants due to lateness or non-delivery of NIN verification code, mismatch or wrong names originally submitted to NIMC, among others, prompting JAMB to announce another two weeks for individuals with genuine challenges to register for the exam,” he stressed, adding that the Board said only candidates with genuine reasons will be allowed to register within the timeframe.
“The exercise is for people to come and defend their claim on the challenges they have with registration – those who claimed not to have NIN or obtained NIN late,” Oloyede further emphasized.
“While saying there could be individuals with genuine cases, JAMB would not allow anybody, particularly fraudsters to outsmart its watertight system by making fictitious claims, as such people would be detected and eventually screened out,” he noted./SHARE THIS