Category: News
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UTME fraud: If we reveal all we know, people’ll be shocked — JAMB Registrar
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Tuesday said that Nigerians will be shocked if the board decides to reveal the details of the “forgery” perpetrated by Mmesoma Ejikeme, the candidate from Anambra State whom the board accused of manually inflating her UTME score. Oloyede noted that the result paraded…
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JAMB Slams 3-year Ban on Acclaimed Highest Scorer in Anambra
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday morning said that it has barred an Anambra State candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme for three years over alleged forgery of UTME results. In a statement made available on Tuesday morning by the Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB insisted that only Mmesoma paraded an “obsolete” notification slip out of…
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JAMB Candidate Accused of Parading Fake Result Breaks Silence
Ejikeme Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, Anambra State, who was accused of inflating her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result, has broken her silence. In a statement on Sunday Fabian Benjamin, JAMB spokesperson, had said the student, who was widely celebrated over 362 score, said to be the highest for 2o23…
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State of Economy : Pastor Adeboye Sends Message To Nigerians
The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has urged Nigerians to endure the economic hardship in the country. He asked Nigerians to trust God and look unto him for provision. The clergyman stated this while addressing his congregation at the RCCG headquarters, ‘The Throne of Grace’, Ebute-metta, Lagos…
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Alleged Fake JAMB Result: Innoson Motor Declares Stance on N3m Scholarship Awarded to Mmesoma
The management of Innoson Automobile Company has finally broken silence on the N3 million scholarship awarded to Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, saying the scholarship will stand if the latter found to be innocent of the allegation by JAMB of result manipulation. Mr Cornel Osigwe, Head of Corporate Communications at Innoson Group, stated this while speaking with…
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Govt Launches Probe into Alleged Forgery of JAMB Result
The Anambra state government has set up a panel of inquiry to investigate the alleged manipulation of 2023 UTME result by Ejikeme Mmesoma. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, the state commissioner for education, broke the news in a statement on Monday. Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra, has been in the news over…
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FUNAAB Students Cry Out Over Serial Robber Who Collect Bitcoin as Ransom
Punch Newspaper Students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, have urged the state police command to track down a yet-to-be-identified robber known as Saint Stealer for allegedly breaking into their hostel outside the premises of the school to steal their phones and other valuables. The students, while complaining over the development, said…
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Saraki Under Pressure to Lead PDP as National Chairman
Fresh facts have emerged that the governors and National Assembly members elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are putting pressure on a former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, to accept to lead the party in the capacity of national chairman, THISDAY has learnt. A Benue High Court had sacked Dr.…
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7-month-Old Baby Found Alive 24-hours After Bandits Shot Mom Dead in Niger
Daily Trust A seven-month-old baby boy named Habibu has been found sleeping on his mother’s back 24 hours after she was shot dead by bandits on the Pandogari-Allawa road in Shiroro LGA of Niger State. City & Crime gathered that bandits blocked the Pandogari-Allawa road a day to Sallah and shot six passengers, including an…
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Confusion as OAUTH gets two CMDs
There has been confusion at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State, following the appointment of two persons as acting Chief Medical Directors for the facility within one week. Sources in the hospital said Prof Oladiran Adegbehingbe was made the acting CMD of the hospital in a letter dated June 22, 2023, signed…