He advised the candidates to simply send their names to 55019 to commence registration for 2020 UTME as it was done in the previous year. He said: “You will recall that in compliance with statutory provisions, we commenced making NIN prerequisite for registration for 2020 UTME. UTME examination must be written before 4th of April, because WAEC starts the 6th of April and immediately after WAEC, NABTEB and after NABTEB, NECO. “On the basis of this, we came to a very sad position yesterday (Friday) that for 2020 we are not going to use NIN as a prerequisite for UTME registration. Oloyede disclosed that about 11,000, comprising permanent and ad hoc staff would be participating in 2020 UTME exercise.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 11, 2020 13:41 UTC