The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed a partnership with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on the provision of a customized Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) for the registration of candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination going forward. The Board in its Weekly Bulletin stated that the use of the customized SIM which will be introduced in 2025 is aimed at addressing the perennial challenges of theft or missing SIM. The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this during a visit of a delegation of the West Africa Civil Societies Forum (WACSOF) to his office. According to the Registrar, the customized SIMs would only be used for UTME registration and would be accessible to only parents with an expiry date of five years.
He expressed confidence that the new SIM regime would solve the avalanche of problems associated with candidates’ registration. He assured the coalition of civil society groups of the commitment of the Board to making its UTME registration not only seamless but also more flexible and user-friendly.
In addition, the Registrar expressed the determination of the Board to continually come up with ways of leveraging state-of-the-art technology to render efficient service delivery to Nigerians.
Recall that during the 2024 UTME, candidates complained bitterly about their inability to register for the UTME process due to a change of SIM card. Some other candidates were not able to check their results because they lost the SIM card they used to register for the examination.