The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that the drop in the revenue it generated from the sale of forms for the 2021 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examinations and the Direct Entry Examinations to the introduction of the National Identification Number (NIN) requirement into the registration process.
The examinations board said the NIN requirement made it impossible for some prospective candidates to register, reducing the number of registered candidates and the proceeds generated from sales of forms.
JAMB’s spokesman, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, who disclosed this on Sunday, said the body generated N5,887,628,900 from the sale of forms for the 2021 UTME/DE which is lower than the N6,563,086,710 generated from forms in 2020.
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“Last year, we had over two million candidates who registered for the examinations, both the UTME and DE. But this year, we are talking about between 1.3 million and 1.4 million. We know factors such as the introduction of the NIN to the registration process were responsible.
“From the information on ground, the NIN did not make lots of candidates register and you know before now we have been having cases of multiple registrations and that was why we brought in the NIN,” he told The PUNCH.
The 2021 registration that started on April 10, 2021 ended on May 29, 2021, though the board had disclosed its intention to give an extension to a few candidates with “special cases.
In 2021, no fewer than 1,338,687 candidates registered for the UTME, while 75,328 registered for the Direct Entry examination as against the total of over two million registered candidates for 2020.
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