Today’s Headlines: JAMB, Mmesoma Trade Words Over Result;Buhari Hired Me To Protect Abuja-Kaduna Road, Asari Dokubo Brags In New Video
JAMB, Mmesoma Trade Words Over Result
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has slammed a three-year ban on Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, who is embroiled in the controversy of who scored the highest mark in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Board.
This is just as the Board said it has also cancelled the result obtained by her in the examination.
Speaking with the Vanguard, yesterday evening, the spokesman of the Board, Dr. Benjamin Fabian, accused the lady of engaging in criminal acts.
“What she did was to alter a result that was obtained by somebody in the 2021 UTME. She is banned for three years from sitting for the UTME too. That result of hers, where she scored 249, has been cancelled as well,” he said on the phone.
Asked how the girl could have altered her result without connivance with somebody on the Board, Fabian said there was no hacking into the Board’s facility.
“Our results are safe and nobody has hacked into them. She only altered her results, and the QR code will always show her true result,” he added.
However, Mmesoma, in a post on her Facebook wall, denied any wrongdoing.
“They are just trying to harass me and my family. After the results were released over two months ago, why is it taking them this long to say what they are saying now? Now, using the QR code is indicating another name – Omotola Afolabi – which initially showed a score of 138 and, later, 338. Somebody cannot have two different results from the same examination.
“I cannot do what they are accusing me of. I have been a brilliant girl from my Nursery School days. I scored over 300 in my common entrance examination to secondary school,” she stated.
Buhari Hired Me To Protect Abuja-Kaduna Road, Asari Dokubo Brags In New Video
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Militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has bragged that President Muhammadu Buhari hired him to protect the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
Daily Trust reports that the highway gained a reputation for being unsafe for travelers during the Buhari-led administration, due to frequent kidnappings and murders.
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But in the twilight of the immediate past government, reports of violence crashed significantly.
When he visited President Bola Tinubu at Aso Rock last month, Dokubo boasted that his men were the ones responsible for the stability being enjoyed on that axis.
He said: “There is a full-scale war going on and the blackmail of the Nigerian state by the Nigerian military is shameful. They said they do not have enough armament and people listened to this false narrative. They are lying. They are liars. I repeat they are liars because I am a participant.
“I am a participant in this war. I fight on the side of the government of the Nigerian state in Plateau, Niger, Anambra, Imo, Abia and Rivers. And in Abuja today, you are travelling to Kaduna on this road. It is not the army that makes it possible for you to travel to Abuja or travel to Kaduna, and vice versa.
FG To Create ‘Chinese Language Faculties’ In Nigerian Varsities
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The Federal Government has expressed its desire to create Faculties of Chinese Language in Nigerian universities, assuring the Peoples Republic of China, of Nigeria’s commitment to sustain bilateral relations between both countries.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF, Sen. George Akume, stated this when he received the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun in Abuja.
According to a statement from the Office of the SGF, Akume said Nigeria has been enjoying strong bilateral relations with China in the areas of infrastructure, trade, and agriculture among others.
He, therefore solicited their support to invest more in Nigeria to enable the present administration to accomplish its Renewed Hope Agenda.
Gov Yusuf Gifts Kano Pilgrims N65m
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Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf has donated the sum of 65 million to be shared as a Sallah gift to the 6,179 pilgrims from the state.
The donation, he said, was part of the state’s gesture aimed at ensuring that the pilgrims experience a pleasant stay and succour while on pilgrimage.
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