Views: Visits 12 The Senate has urged the Federal Ministry of Education, Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB), and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), to immediately review the implementation of the policy which makes it compulsory for UTME candidates to provide their National Identity Numbers (NIN) during registration. The review, according to the upper chamber, should accommodate extending the JAMB registration deadline or suspending the NIN requirement until there is a seamless and well organized process for obtaining the national identity number. READ ALSOEFCC arrests seven internet fraudster in Rivers This was one out of two resolutions reached, following a motion considered to that effect on the floor of the Senate during plenary on Tuesday.
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The Senate has urged the Federal Ministry of Education, Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB), and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), to immediately review the implementation of the policy which makes it compulsory for UTME candidates to provide their National Identity Numbers (NIN) during registration.
The review, according to the upper chamber, should accommodate extending the JAMB registration deadline or suspending the NIN requirement until there is a seamless and well organized process for obtaining the national identity number.
Coming under Order 42 and 52 of the Senate Rules, sponsor of the motion, Ifeanyi Ubah (YPP, Anambra South) bemoaned the frustrations faced by young Nigerians as a result of the policy introduced by JAMB making it compulsory for candidates to provide the National Identity Number (NIN) during UTME registration.
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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Is’aq Oloyede, has said 600,000 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination applicants are unable to register for the exam due to inability to obtain their National Identification Numbers.
Oloyede said the board would on Saturday (today) decide if there was the need to extend the registration period and change the exam date due to the challenge.
Oloyede said this on Friday at a Zoom meeting titled, ‘Briefing session for the committees on 2021 UTME.’ The exam had been slated to hold between June 5 and 19.
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Airtel Africa Plc has said it lost 2.5 million active mobile customers in the first quarter of the year due to the Nigerian Communications Commission ban on SIM card sales and registration.
The Chief executive officer, Airtel Africa plc, Raghunath Mandava, made this known in the company’s financial statement for the year ending march 2021.
He said, “Our customer base also grew strongly for most of the year with new customer registration requirements in Nigeria stemming our onboarding of new customers in the final quarter, and these restrictions were lifted in second half of April.”
Following a directive by the NCC in December 2020, Nigerian telecom operators had been unable to sell SIM cards to customers.
•FG won’t keep postponing data verification deadline, NCC warns
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, declared that synchronisation of National Identification Numbers (NINs) nationwide was crucial to providing digital framework to combat insecurity and strengthen the economy.
Launching the National Policy for the Promotion of Indigenous Content in Nigerian Telecoms Sector and Revised National Identity Policy for SIM Card Registration in Abuja, the President urged citizens to fully participate in the ongoing exercise.
This is even as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) warned that government would not continue postponing the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification. It urged Nigerians to take advantage of the latest extension to finalise the exercise.