JAMB, NIMC and BPSR to harmonise data.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and the Bureau of Public Service Reform (BPSR) in Abuja on Monday at a stakeholders’ meeting are to harmonise data of candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination to reduce cost of registration and check underage registration.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, while addressing newsmen shortly after the meeting, said the partnership became necessary to ensure that candidates who were eligible to sit for the examination were captured.
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He said: “So, those who are doing registration will collaborate with NIMC to make sure that we pay for one and you get two. A candidate will spent six years in primary school, secondary school six years making 12 years. “If you are fortunate one way or the other and save one, two, three years of excessive speed,
“So, for me, if we have 15 years as they have agreed, nobody who is below 15 years should register; and anybody who is below 15 years let’s come and address that person specifically,’’ he said.
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Also, Mr Aliyu Aziz Abubakar, the Director General of NIMC, said the commission got the approval of the Federal Executive Council mandating all private and government agencies to ensure that their data met NIMC standard. Abubakar said the idea was to enable NIMC duplicate those data for national security and development.
“We have already got the approval of Federal Executive Council to ensure that private and government agencies that are already capturing data should capture to the standard set by NIMC so that we can duplicate those data.
“So, with the private and other government agencies into the picture, so we ensure that we have more than 10,000 centres so that every ward in Nigeria will have an enrolment centre,” he said.
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