Accessing your JAMB portal is a very important task. Although before your exam, activities might not be that compulsory if you have your JAMB acknowledgment slip that house your JAMB registration number and your other necessary details.
However, immediately after your exam, your JAMB portal is one of the most important places to access has all activities linked to your examination.
On your JAMB portal, you can easily:
- Check your JAMB result
- Check your JAMB registration number
- Check your admission status
- Accept or decline your admission
- Do a change of institution
- Do a change of course…
That is why accessing your JAMB portal is so important and can’t be toiled with.
To access your JAMB portal at times comes with difficulty and a clueless candidate will give up without achieving anything or consult a cyber café who will, in turn, collect money in exchange for the service.
How to Log In to your JAMB portal
To log in to your Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) e-facility portal is not a hard nut to crack. It can be done right on your phone or in a cyber café if you don’t have access to the net.
Quick and easy, but can be inaccessible at times. Most times, when the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board releases results, accessing the portal most time proves so difficult, this is because many candidates will be trying hard to access the e-facility at once. This will result in traffic and candidate with the small device will be pulled out or not even given access at all.
To create a profile on the JAMB portal, these are the rudiments:
- Connect your device to an internet source (it can be mobile data or Wi-Fi)
- Open your browser and open the JAMB official website at https://jamb.gov.ng/EfaacilityOn the menu bar, locate create e-Facility account or Login. It is usually at the top corner of your browser
- Navigate to create ‘New Account’
- Input your email address in the provided box
- Create your special password
- Pick a security question you can remember the answer to easily
- Answer your security question
- Verification will be sent to your mail, verify it.
With these few steps, you now have an account on the JAMB website. This account can be used in registering for your exams, checking your results…
To log in, simply
- Connect your device to an internet source (it can be mobile data or Wi-Fi)
- Open your browser and open the JAMB official website at https://jamb.gov.ng/Efaacility
- On the menu bar, locate create e-Facility account or Login. It is usually at the top corner of your browser
- Navigate to ‘Log in’
- Input the mail your registered with
- Input the password you created while registering.
All details used while registering are very important. This is because you will use these details to log in to your account when the need arises. That is why you have to be very meticulous while deciding your password, security question, and security question answer.
I’d advise you to write down somewhere save. However, in case you can’t remember your password, you can easily reset your password.
How to Reset JAMB Password
JAMB has made it possible for a candidate that can’t remember their password again to recover it. This is to ensure candidates get satisfied with the service from the body. Moreover, at times, even when human is most meticulous, some things can be forgotten. This can be influenced by so many factors.
Access to your email address (the one you’re registered with) is key while resetting the password.
Upon successful registration, a mail that contains all candidate’s details is always sent by mail to the email used while registering. The details include:
- Username
- Password
- Date of birth
- Gender
- Mobile number
- Origin …
At a point where you can’t remember the password again, candidates can simply search the tool on their mail to search for the message from JAMB while registering. This is a quick and fast way, it can be tagged as your online cloud.
Nevertheless, in case you couldn’t locate this mail, you can also reset your password on the JAMB website. Once you are sure of the mail you registered with, you can reset your password in a twinkle of an eye. Follow this step to reset your password:
- Connect to an internet source
- Open your browser and open the JAMB website at https://portal.jamb.gov.ng/eFacility
- It will bring a login box, simply click on the forgotten password
- Enter mail address candidate registered with and correct date of birth
- Tap on the ‘get password rest link’ button
- Open your mailbox and locate the message from JAMB with the subject ‘JAMB Facility-Password Reset’
- Open the mail and tap on the ‘Rest my Password’ link
- Create a new password on the next page
- And ensure you click on the ‘Change Password’ button
Be careful enough to write the password down this time, to save yourself the stress and time for resetting again. You might be lucky not to spend too much resetting if you have personal access to the internet. Using a cyber café will cost more.
HOW TO RESET JAMB PASSWORD USING 55019
Briefly, I’ll show you two ways you can recover your password faster. This time around, you don’t need internet access, you don’t even need your mail.
Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has been working on making internet activities achievable even offline since they know their candidates most time don’t have access to personal internet and their information needs to be more confidential.
You can now rest your JAMB portal password on your phone from the sim card you registered your exam with.
First Approach
- Ensure your sim card has at least fifty naira (#50) recharge card on it
- Simply text ‘Password email’ to 55019. The email here is the email you used in registering your JAMB. For example, ‘password damilaresekou9o@gmail.com’ to 55019
- Wait a bit for your password to be delivered through text message.
Second approach
- Ensure your sim card has at least fifty naira (#50) recharge card on it
- Simply text ‘Reset Password’ to 55019
- Wait a bit for your password to be delivered through text message.
You don’t need the internet to do this, no need to beg for a friend’s phone, reset your password now.
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