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JAMB Launches Appointment Booking Platforms to Offices & Centers

COVID-19: Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Launches Four (4) New Innovations for Candidates and Relevant Stakeholders where they Can Secure Appointments before Visiting the Approved JAMB CBT Centers and Offices Nationwide [Appointment Booking Platform, One Time Password, Disinfectant Tunnel Sprayers & SMA(R)T Phone Numbers].

In line with extant guidelines relating to  physical/social distancing and other measures  aimed at mitigating the spread of COVlD-19 as issued by relevant agencies, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has come up with a number of major innovations to proactively protect both staff and clients, particularly tertiary education candidates at its various centres, while rendering seamless services to the public.

These innovations which are critical to current operational imperatives include:
a. the Appointment Booking- Platform which requires a candidate to secure an online appointment before visiting the centres for any service to avoid crowd;
b. the One- Time Password (OTP) which temporarily replaces biometric verification via fingerprints;
c. the installation of Disinfectant Tunnel Sprayers at the entrances to all offices and centres of the Board to disinfect both staff and the public, and
d. the introduction of SMA(R)T phone numbers for all the Board’s offices and Professional Test Centres(PTC) across the country.

Four of the innovations are ready to be rolled out:
1. The appointment booking-platform
2. The One Time Password,
3. The Disinfectant Tunnel Sprayers and
4. the SMA(R)T phone numbers.

However the Board is rolling-out the first of the innovations which is the SMA(R)T phone numbers in this edition of the bulletin and would roll—out the others in subsequent editions.

As you may be aware, SMA(R)T phone numbers popularly called ”vanity numbers”in other climes are very easy to remember. SMA(R)T (Vanity) numbers are artificial numbers based on the letters ofthe beneficial owner of the number.

The letters in the name of the owner are keyed once wherever they occur on the phone pad. For example, JAMB which is the name of the beneficiary in this instance would apart from 0700 which is the SMA(R)T-code in Nigeria ( for non-toll—free) have ”J” of JAMB on key ”5”, ”A” on key (12”, ”M” on ”6" and (IBM on ”2”.

Consequently, all SMA(R)T JAMB numbers would include 5262. Therefore all JAMB numbers in different offices are unified with 0700-5(J)2(A)6(M)2(B) before the 3 or 4 other numbers for the state or centre. This would make it easy for a candidate to remember the constant -0700—5262.

These dedicated numbers are meant to facilitate round-the-clock access to JAMB services. All JAMB SMA(R)T phone lines would commence with ’0700’, followed by ”JAMB” and then the first three letters of each State with the exception of one or two States that did not follow the sequence of the first three letters. For instance, Abia State would have ’0700- JAMB—ABI’ as its phone number.

Where a State Office has a subsidiary, the letter of that subsidiary office would be captured to yield, for example, ’0700-JAMB-BAO’ to indicate JAMB Bayelsa State Office, Otuoke Centre, as opposed to ’0700- JAMB—BAY’ for the parent Office. However, to avoid clashes in interpreting the numbers, a few of the phone numbers of some subsidiary offices did not start with the first letter of their towns.

The Board is mindful of the fact that the normal eleven digit numbers are difficult to memorize but when it comes to SMA(R)T numbers, all a candidate needs to do is simply to add the last three letters of the State Capital of his choice to '0700—JAMB'.

Members of the public are to note that these phone lines, while not  toll-free, would be accessible on all networks.

HOW TO DIAL THE SMA(R)T NUMBERS: 
To call any of the numbers, all a candidate needs to do to attain the alphabets would be to simply dial, just once, the corresponding letters on the numeric keys. For instance, ’5’ would yield ’J’, ’K’ and ’L’ etc. Each number on the numeric phone key (from 2 to 9) would bear the letters under it.

Note that the letters dialed will be displayed as digits e.g: 0700-JAMB- ABI shall display as 07005262224 when dialed from the numeric phone keys.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?  
The Board, ever conscious of its social responsibility to the public, has put these preventive health strategies in place as part of the overall measures taken to reduce physical/social distancing in compliance with prevailing protocols on COVlD-19.

Below are the SMA(R)T numbers of the offices and PTC centres.

JAMB SMA(R)T Numbers and Interpretation for all the States Nationwide

SNo JAMB Office SMA(R)T NumberInterpretationof the
SMA(R)TNumber
1 ABIA 0700-JAMB-ABI 0700-5262-224
2 ADAMAWA 0700-JAMB-ADA 0700-5262-232
3 AKWA-IBOM 0700-JAMB-AKW 0700-5262-259
4 ANAMBRA 0700-JAMB-ANA 0700-5262-262
5 BAUCHI 0700-JAMB-BAU 0700-5262-228
6 BAYELSA 0700-JAMB-BAY 0700-5262-229
7 BAYELSA (Otuoke) 0700-JAMB-BAO 0700-5262-226
8 BENUE 0700-JAMB-BEN 0700-5262-236
9 BORNO 0700-JAMB-BOR 0700-5262-267
10 CROSS-RIVER 0700-JAMB-CRS 0700-5262-277
11 DELTA 0700-JAMB-DEL 0700-5262-335
12 EBONYI 0700-JAMB-EBO 0700-5262-326
13 EDO 0700-JAMB-EDO 0700-5262-336
14 EKITI 0700-JAMB-EKI 0700-5262-354
15 ENUGU 0700-JAMB-ENU 0700-5262-368
16 FCT (Garki) 0700-JAMB-FCG 0700-5262-324
17 FCT (Fed Secretariat) 0700-JAMB-FSC 0700-5262-372
18 FCT (Kogo) 0700-JAMB-FCK 0700-5262-325
19 GOMBE 0700-JAMB-GMB 0700-5262-462
20 IMO 0700-JAMB-IMO 0700-5262-466
21 JIGAWA 0700-JAMB-JIG 0700-5262-544
22 KADUNA 0700-JAMB-KAD 0700-5262-523
23 KANO 0700-JAMB-KAN 0700-5262-526
24 KANO (Farawa) 0700-JAMB-FARA 0700-5262-3272
25 KATSINA 0700-JAMB-KAT 0700-5262-528
26 KEBBI 0700-JAMB-KEB 0700-5262-532
27 KOGI 0700-JAMB-KOG 0700-5262-564
28 KWARA 0700-JAMB-KWA 0700-5262-592
29 LAGOS 0700-JAMB-LAG 0700-5262-524
30 NASARAWA 0700-JAMB-NAS 0700-5262-627
31 NIGER 0700-JAMB-NIG 0700-5262-644
32 NIGER (JAMB/NCC) 0700-JAMB-NIM 0700-5262-646
33 OGUN 0700-JAMB-OGU 0700-5262-648
34 ONDO 0700-JAMB-OND 0700-5262-663
35 OSUN 0700-JAMB-OSU 0700-5262-678
36 OSUN (ILOBU ROAD) 0700-JAMB-OSO 0700-5262-676
37 OYO 0700-JAMB-OYO 0700-5262-696
38 OYO (IGBOHO) 0700-JAMB-OYGH 0700-5262-6944
39 PLATEAU 0700-JAMB-PLA 0700-5262-752
40 RIVERS 0700-JAMB-RIV 0700-5262-748
41 SOKOTO 0700-JAMB-SOK 0700-5262-765
42 TARABA 0700-JAMB-TAR 0700-5262-827
43 YOBE 0700-JAMB-YOB 0700-5262-962
44 ZAMFARA 0700-JAMB-ZAM 0700-5262-926