Odunowo Adejoke Adedolapo
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Saturday scrapped the use of National Identity Number for registration in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry exam because of inadequate enrollment centres.
The board noted that the 1,000 enrollment centres operated by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) nationwide were not enough to successfully register applicants ahead of the conduct of the examinations hence causing a lot of chaos amongst candidates as they have to queue for hours just to get registered.
Registration for this year’s examination will however commence on Monday 13 January and end on the 17 of February while the examination will start on 14 of March and end on the 4 of April 2020.
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