The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) insists on the use of the National Identity Management Number (NIM) in the conduct of the exams, says no amount of “smear campaign” can prevent it. The information was made known by the board's registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede who spoke during a meeting with CBT centres, technical advisors, and service providers on Wednesday at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna state
Recall that JAMB had earlier announced its partnership with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to clampdown on impersonation and other forms of exam malpractice ahead of its forthcoming Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
In the wake of its decision to use NIM during the 2020 UTME, Oloyede said those benefiting from registration and exam frauds have continued to mount a negative campaign against the NIMC.
He also said the board had reduced the number of available exam centres in a crackdown on cases where candidates pay between ₦200,000 to ₦300,000 to some individuals to write the exam for them.
“With the current campaign against NIMC, I could see deliberate efforts at running the commission down so that we can consider not collaborating with them. Those benefitting from registration scandals are mounting a campaign against NIMC,” he said.
“We are collaborating with NIMC. They are upright and just last week, five staff were sacked because they collected bribe. So as you interact with NIMC, don’t have it in mind that you are interacting with corrupt people, no, they are not.
“Unless I’m wrong, more than 40 per cent of our candidates have obtained their NIN while the remaining ones are running helter-skelter to have theirs.”
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