Widow Appeals To JAMB As Sim Loss Blocks Her Kids’s UTME Registration

An aggrieved widow, Dr. Jane Uche, has appealed to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to assist resolve the issue of Sim loss hindering the registration of her youngsters’s 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME

Uche said this whereas narrating her ordeal in an interview with the press.

she known as on JAMB to make provision for youngsters of the deads, whose numbers have been used to generate profile code.

The widow defined that her late husband used his line to generate profile code for his two youngsters previously UTME registration however sadly couldn’t hint the road when the person handed on.

”I’ve three youngsters of age 20, 18 and 16; none of them had gained admission to any greater establishment earlier than their father handed.

”The mates of the one who’s 20 years outdated have nearly graduated however mine remains to be at dwelling, the grief retains multiplying resulting from recycled challenges,” she stated.

In keeping with her, this can be a particular enchantment to JAMB to please make provision for youngsters of the lifeless to have the ability to keep it up with their registration.

“My husband left dwelling this trustworthy day not sick however I used to be known as within the night to return and choose up his corpse in entrance of LASUTH Mortuary and there we couldn’t retrieve his SIM playing cards.

“The proprietor of the SIM card used to generate profile code then is lifeless.  Now, with JAMB, you may solely use one SIM card to proceed to ship codes to write down JAMB once more.

“What this implies is that my youngsters can’t write JAMB once more until they retrieve their late father’s SIM card and that is inconceivable for us to get.

“With this growth,  the training of my youngsters will probably be on maintain as a result of to get admission,  they need to be capable to write JAMB,” she stated.

She additional stated that quite a lot of candidates have been going through comparable scenario, interesting to the authority to allow the system retrieve SIM via SIM swap, misplaced SIM, and alter of SIM.

“I’ve tried every part doable by going to all JAMB workplaces to see if they will get reply for me. However to date, they stated there isn’t any provision for SIM swap,” she added.

Nevertheless, LEADERSHIP gathered on the  board’s official X deal with that there’s a characteristic accessible in any respect Laptop-Primarily based Centre (CBT) to handle SIM loss however the SIM SWAP characteristic remains to be not accessible.

The publish reads, “Excellent news for many who can’t retrieve their beforehand used however misplaced SIM playing cards. A characteristic is now accessible in any respect CBT centres to handle your case.

” Kindly fill the template to entry this service for the approaching UTME/DE registration. Observe that SIM SWAP remains to be not accessible.”