Keffi (Nasarawa) – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says starting from 2023, candidates will register for its examinations with their National Identity Management Number (NIM) to solve the challenges of multiple registration.
Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head of Media of the board made this known at a one-day capacity building workshop organised by the National Examination Council (NECO) for education correspondents in Keffi on Friday.
Benjamin, who spoke on the topic: “Understanding Reporting in the 21st Century”, said the development would be facilitated through partnership with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
“Four days ago, we cancelled results of four candidates because of examination malpractices we discovered after the examination.
“The board is on top of the situation as it has the determination and technology in place to forestall attempts at compromising the registration process.
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“An intrinsic part of the strategies adopted by the board is ensuring that its registration period is kept very short.”
He said that the registration of candidates would now take 30 days instead of a longer period to contain the chances of fraudsters’ strategies to circumvent the process.
On biometric challenges, he said the board had planned to ensure that by 2023 the issues of biometric problems in the course of registration would be over.
“In 2022, we have about 24,490 biometric challenges but we have been able to bring this down to 22 in 2022; but if we are able to stand on our ground by 2023, we will not have any biometric challenges,” he said.
He added that no Computer Based Test (CBT) centre would be used for the conduct of its examinations except those centre whose administrators were the owners of the CBT centres.
WE CALL ON ALL OUR STUDENTS TO GO AND REGISTER FOR THE ID NOW BECAUSE THE JAMB 2023 WILL BE OUT SOON.
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