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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. The board, however, withheld 12,110 results for possible disciplinary action. The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, announced this at a news conference on the release of the results in Bwari, FCT, today Friday May 3rd. The registrar said after thorough processing of answer scripts of the candidates who sat for the examination, the board discovered some forms of malpractice perpetuated during the conduct of the examination. “However, the results of 68,309 candidates from various centres are undergoing further screening to ascertain the culpability of 12,110 candidates’ results. A total of 1,629,102 candidates applied to sit for the Paper Pencil Test (PPT), while 15,008 candidates applied for the Dual Based Test, bringing the number of candidates to 1,644,110. “The general performance of candidates in this year’s examinati

For stealing a N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, a 31- year-old Kelvin Ighodalo has been sentenced to 45-year imprisonment by an Osogbo High Court. Ighodalo stole the phone from the pocket of Aregbesola on November 27, 2010, when the governor was being inaugurated at Government Technical College, Osogbo. Justice Oyejide Falola, who heard the case, found Ighodalo guilty on six counts, which included conspiracy, stealing and fraud. He was sentenced to 10-year imprisonment for the first three counts and five years for each of the last three which included impersonation, obtaining property by falsehood and collusion. Falola, who ruled that Ighodalo deserved the jail term, held that the convict used the phone to obtain N500, 000 from the Owa of Ilesa, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran, while he obtained N200, 000 from Mr Shengen Rahman, an associate of the governor. The jail term, which Falola pronounced will run concurrently, means tha

Although the both parties mentioned do not enjoy the best of relationship for some years now, no one knew it would degenerate into a rofo rofo fight years after, until they finally engaged each other in a severe boxing match recently that finally earned AY a serious head but from ‘Terry the Ginja’ . For the purpose of those who may not have understood the whole story, let us revert to the beginning of the matter. In 2009, AY Dot come launched an attack on Terry G and warned him to stop performing his song, “Pass Me Your Love” in shows. The song which featured Terry and was also produced by him turned out to be a monster hit single later became the subject of a misunderstanding between the two parties over the years. While Terry on his part claims he has the right of performing the song since it was a duet that featured him, AY Dot Come maintained it was never going to happen while he lives. Meanwhile, AY on several occasions lamented of how Terry G went about collec

The New 9 Federal Universities as Announced by President Goodluck Jonathan. These Universities are: 1] Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State. ---North Central. 2] Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State. -------North Central. 3] Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State.-- North East. 4] Federal University, Wakari, Taraba State. ----North East. 5] Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State.-North West. 6] Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.-------North West. 7] Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. ---South South. 8] Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State.-South East. 9] Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.-------South West. President Goodluck Jonathan also on Thursday advised Nigeria’s National Economic Council (NEC) to approve the upgrade of six Federal universities to Mega tertiary institutions with absorptive capacity of 150,000 students to 200,000 students each. The will Affected Universities are yet to be named by the Preside

Abuja – The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, has warned polytechnics undertaking the post-graduate diploma programmes to stop, saying it is not part of their mandate. Rufa’i gave the warning on Monday in Abuja at the inauguration of the governing councils for the National Teachers Institute, National Educational Research Development Council, 15 federal polytechnics and 19 federal colleges of education. She directed that henceforth, no polytechnic convocation would hold without issuance of certificates to graduating students. The minister also ordered that the provosts and registrars of colleges of education must sign NCE certificates as obtained in polytechnics and universities. “The provosts and registrars of colleges of education should sign NCE certificates as obtained in polytechnics and universities. “Issuance of certificates to graduating students is a prerequisite for approval for holding convocations; thus no certificate, no conv