Announcing this at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Isha-q Oloyede attributed the decision to what he called technical reasons. The conference was attended by top management staff of the National Identification Management Commission, led by its Director-General, Aziz Aliyu. The JAMB registrar cited ongoing difficulties being faced by candidates in the NIN registration, adding that the NIN requirement as a precondition for the UTME and DirectEntry registrations had been set aside for this year’s UTME and DE registrations. Oloyede said the NIN would, however, be a necessary requirement in the 2021 UTME and Direct Entry registrations. The JAMB spokesman, Dr Benjamin Fabian had informed our correspondent that examination malpractices syndicates were behind the hitches at the NIN registration centres.

Source: Punch January 11, 2020 10:40 UTC