Email Will No Longer Be Needed During Registration – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has come out to say that mobile phone, not e-mail, will now be the only major requirement for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, and Direct Entry, DE, registration processes.

Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, recently revealed this to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the new system is to ensure that candidates’ information is not exposed to dubious cyber cafe operators and other criminal elements.

He added that the fraudsters recently altered profiles of the board’s ad hoc staff, diverting the money meant for their allowances, and that cannot be allowed to repeat itself.

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) is a Nigerian entrance examination board for tertiary-level institutions.

The board conducts entrance Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for prospective undergraduates into Nigerian universities. The board is also charged with the responsibility to administer similar examinations for applicants to Nigerian public and private monotechnics, polytechnics, and colleges of educations.

All of these candidates must have obtained the West Africa School Certificate, now West African Examinations Council, WAEC, or its equivalent, National Examination Council (Nigeria), NECO.

Jamb CBT (Computer Based Test) Centres are the various locations and centers in Nigeria approved by JAMB for the registration of the UTME examination. There are various JAMB CBT centers/locations in the 36 states in Nigeria including the Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria), FCT.