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JAMB Eradicates Use Of Email For UTME, DE Registration

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says the use of email is no longer required for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) registration’s processes.

JAMB registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, who made this known while addressing newsmen in Abuja, said email will only be requested at the successful completion of the registration exercise by candidates to access information on the exam.

“As from Thursday, 15th April 2021, candidates will no longer be required to provide any email address during registration. Consequently, candidates will have the following options to access their profile during or after registration.

“i. Mobile APP on the candidates’ phone

ii. On the 55019 option (being designed) for example admission status checking, acceptance of admission etc on their profile.

“Printing of examination slip (Notification) or Result notification slip or ticketing can be done anywhere using the candidate’s JAMB registration number only.

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“At the conclusion of the 2021 UTME/DE Registration exercise, candidates will provide their email addresses only after the 2021 UTME/DE registration exercise has been declared closed by JAMB through (a) Mobile APP on his/her registered phone

(b) Sending the word email (space then the email address) on his /her registered phone to 55019.

“The email is typed twice for correctness (Email addresses will be entered twice for validation and prevention of typographical errors,” Oloyede said.

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The JAMB boss said the new system is to ensure candidates’ information are not exposed to dubious cyber cafe operators and other criminal elements who in the course of UTME/ Direct Entry registration steal email passwords to perpetrate fraud.

The JAMB boss said an individual’s mobile phone now remains the only major tool to carry out all the registration processes.

Speaking further, Oloyede said the Board has phased out the use of cash for any transactions in the Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres owned by JAMB, saying only use of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards is now allowed.

While saying the move is to frustrate the antics of touts who hang around JAMB CBT centers as well as prevent illegal charges, Oloyede said candidates that are only keen on using cash can visit privately owned centers for their registrative and other activities.

Earlier, a final year student of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja), Adegoke Justina, told newsmen how she was lured to hand over her email details to a cyber café staff, who posed as staff of the Board.

Adegoke had visited the JAMB CBT center in the Kogo-Bwari area of Abuja, to rectify issues with her admission when she was accosted by the young man, who promised to help do necessary applications, only for him to be issuing threats and demanding money days later after taking over the student’s email address.

Moses Peter, the cyber café operator, nabbed by police over the incident, however, identified the perpetrator of the crime as David Ahmad, a student of Auchi Polytechnic, who sometimes works in the café.

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