By Dayo Omoogun The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has suspended the use of National Identification Number (NIN) as part of the prerequisites for the Board’s 2020 examinations. The registration for the examination which is billed to commence on Monday 13th January, 2020 will end on 17th February, 2020. The examination proper will hold from 14th March 2020 to 4th April,2020. The examination Board had partnered with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) with the aim of beating some of the exam malpractices such as multiple registrations and identity theft. While announcing the suspension at a conference held on Friday at the Board’s headquarters which was attended by the Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission and some of his top management staff, the JAMB Registrar Prof.Ishaq Oloyede had this to say: “We had agreed that NIN would be a prerequisite for registration of 2020 UTME which will commence on Monday. But there was public outcry on the frustrations and difficulties that candidates are subjected to before getting the NIN. “We were forced to review our strategies and we arrived at a point that it was obvious that we could not go ahead with NIN as prerequisite for registration because of the challenges that might affect the participation of large number of candidates.” “To this end, we have decided to suspend the use of NIN for 2020 UTME exercise. We have unanimously agreed to shift the use of NIN to 2021 when candidates must have been given enough time and opportunity to get the NIN.”