The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that one million, three hundred and eighty-three thousand, four hundred and twenty (1,383, 420) candidates procured the Pin for registration as at May 29th,2021.
It explained that One million, three hundred and seventy-five thousand, six hundred and ninety-four (1,375,694) candidates completed their registration,according to a statement by Head, Public Affairs and Protocols,Fabian Benjamin.
The board lamented that from the time of extension, the number of candidates fell drastically until towards the new closing date.
It stated that despite the extension, there were still complaints of inability to register due to lateness or non-delivery of NIN verification code; inability to obtain NIN; mismatch or wrong names originally submitted to NIMC (and different from the ones being used for the JAMB registration), among others.
The board announced two weeks’ extension for candidates that encountered proven challenges to complete their registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
“Consequently, all prospective candidates with genuine proof(s) of failed efforts to register before the closing date are to between Monday 31st May and 15th June 2021, visit any of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board offices (including JAMB owned Professional Test Centres, PTCs) across the nation to “Obtain at no cost and complete a form which is being made available to candidates with genuine reasons for missing the registration;
“Submit (for the reading test and application), a certified bank draft of N4,000 in favour of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (and obtain a signed duplicate copy from the office).
“Submit the completed form with a recent passport photograph at the same office of the collection, collect a copy of the reading test.
“Await further directives through the registered phone number and public service announcement as soon as the screening is completed,”it said in a statement
It reiterated registration for the UTME is still not possible without the National Identification Number (NIN) and warned candidates against double registrations.
