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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board may cancel as much as half of the results of its 2019 university admissions exams in some states of the federation, a senior official has told PREMIUM TIMES.

UTME candidates, JAMB logoThe official, who requested anonymity to be able to discuss JAMB’s delay in releasing results, expressed disgust at the massive malpractice recorded during the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) that held between April 11 and 18.
The source said while all parts of the country took part in cheating, the situation was worse in some. He said the “fearless display of fraudulent tactics by some individuals including parents and centre owners,” would leave many people dumbfounded.
While giving reasons for the delay in the release of this year’s UTME results by JAMB, the source said Nigerians would be shocked if they were privy to the recordings from the Closed Circuit Television cameras installed across the about 700 centres used during the examination.
He said at least 50 per cent of centres in some states would likely have their results cancelled.
“Those people, I trembled when I saw the magnitude of malpractice they perpetrated, in spite of the technological measures JAMB took. I don’t know what we can do again,” the source said.
“If you look at the CCTV camera recordings, you would now wonder whether these people thought we were just joking when we insisted on installation of CCTV cameras. I am sure they didn’t believe us because anybody that had believed us would not have tried what they tried in those places.”
The spokesperson for JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, confirmed the large scale exams fraud, but said the board would not stereotype any particular region.
“What we have found out is that those who indulge in malpractice are usually encouraged by the impatient attitude of Nigerians who don’t always like matters being followed to a logical conclusion. That way, they always get away with their corrupt practices. But this time, we are patient to ensure that every single infraction is punished.

The court of Appeal sitting over the case eligibility of Senator Ademola Adeleke in the September 2018 governorship election has been adjourned till May 8, 2019.

The appeal court on Thursday adjourned the case to enable it to hear Senator Adeleke’s appeal alongside that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which is not ok for hearing today.

The presiding judge of the three-man panel, Justice Abubakar Datti-Yahaya held that since the appeals are similar in facts, the court cannot hear them piecemeal as such the case will be adjourned to a later date.

Senator Adeleke is, however, challenging the judgment of the lower court which held that he did not qualify for the governorship election on the ground that the secondary school certificate he submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was forged.

The date of the case has been fixed for May 8 to hear the appeals

A Pharmaceutical doctor, Dr. Olasiji Olamiju popularly called AKOL on Wednesday organise a special victory prayer for Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Appeal court judgment which date has not been announced yet.

The APC candidate in the last Presidential and National Assembly elections for Ijesa North Federal Constituency, Olamiju who made it known to newsmen in Osogbo explains that the prayer becomes important to ensure a favourable judgment at the court of Appeal and to ask God for unstoppable progress brought to Osun by the APC led government since 2011.

The prayers which took place at CAC prayer mountain in Osun West Senatorial district of the state, lasting 3 days and 3 nights, had in attendance six eminent men of God.

A Pharmaceutical doctor, Dr. Olasiji Olamiju popularly called AKOL on Wednesday organise a special victory prayer for Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Appeal court judgment which date has not been announced yet.

The APC candidate in the last Presidential and National Assembly elections for Ijesa North Federal Constituency, Olamiju who made it known to newsmen in Osogbo explains that the prayer becomes important to ensure a favourable judgment at the court of Appeal and to ask God for unstoppable progress brought to Osun by the APC led government since 2011.

The prayers which took place at CAC prayer mountain in Osun West Senatorial district of the state, lasting 3 days and 3 nights, had in attendance six eminent men of God.

NYSC members at the orientation campJunior Achievement Nigeria has successfully graduated another set of youth from the 2019 edition of Venture in Management Program (ViMP), a mini-MBA program for National Youth Service Corps members, sponsored by African Capital Alliance Foundation, and supported by Lagos Business School (LBS) and Accenture. 

ViMP is a one-week residential program at LBS which instructs participants in various modules covering Strategy, Business Management, Finance, Corporate Governance, Ethics, and Leadership using real business cases. 

These lessons prepare participants to become ethical business leaders who will successfully run their own businesses or manage already established businesses and social enterprises.  

This year’s edition ran from February 11 through February 15, with 52 individuals from across the country taking active part in the week-long activities. The first two days were spent teaching participants’ on effective presentations, leadership skills, analysis of business problems, finance, and entrepreneurship. 

The third day featured JA Nigeria’s Board Chairman, Niyi Yusuf, and Executive Director, Simi Nwogugu, engaging with participants on leadership, volunteering, and social impact. An alumni mixer was also organized to give the 2019 cohort an opportunity to network with older alumni, program sponsors, Board Members, and journalists who graced the occasion with their presence.   

The Program ended with a Career Fair, during which participants met and interviewed with several companies interested in hiring them into intern ships or full-time positions. It was indeed a rewarding experience for the participants, who kept coming back to JA Nigeria with their testimonials We are grateful to Lagos Business School and Faculty including Uchenna Uzo, Yetunde Anibaba, Henry Andoh, Lucille Ossai, Akin Oparison, Henrietta Onwuegbuzie, Kayode Omoregie, and Rose Ogbechie for bringing world-class experiential learning to the participants. 

We also appreciate Accenture for shortlisting the top candidates who have now been registered into our alumni network. Lastly, our deep appreciation goes to ACA Foundation for sponsoring ViMP for the sixth time, and mentoring outstanding participants of the program, thereby ensuring long-term sustained impact to all beneficiaries.

Contrary to labour’s claims, the Kogi State government says it has paid 38 months’ salaries to its workers since it came into office in January 2016.

Yaya BelloThe clarification came  from the director-general of Media and Publicity to the Governor, Mr. Kingsley Fanwo in Takete, Ide Amuro in Mopamuro local government when he briefed journalists after an All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders’ meeting in the ward.
Fanwo said: “One of the questions our party members asked during the meeting was about the claim by labour that we are owing workers 38 months’ salaries.
“As far as the government is concerned, we have paid 38 months’ salaries starting from September 2015. We have been in office for just 39 months. But we are still owing four months’ salaries because we started paying from the period when we were yet to assume power.
“We are not in any power play with labour. We will continue to appreciate their understanding and we pledge to clear all the arrears as soon as possible,” he said.
Fanwo explained that the state government had struggled to bridge the gap it inherited in the payment of salaries because of the dwindling revenue and contending needs of the people of the state.
The governor’s aide stated that “we know how pivotal salaries are to microeconomics and we also know we owe other sectors of the public a good number of social amenities.
“Government will continue to manage the contending interests to serve a good number of the population,”. He said.
On the rumoured decamping of the governor to Accord Party (AP), Fanwo said that the promoters of the rumour failed to “rehearse their falsehood properly.”
According to him, “such rumours will fail a major logic lab test. It is laughable to insinuate that a governor that just led our party to landslide and historic victory in the 2019 general elections is about to abandon his bungalow to rent a hut.

“If this is the kind of propaganda the opposition wants to fly with, then they are not ready for the forthcoming November 2 electoral battle in the state.
“Governor Yahaya Bello is the landlord of Kogi APC. Anyone coming is a tenant. Where were those opponents when he built the party into what dwarfed others in the 2019 elections? The people spreading these rumours are political comedians with lazy minds. They are conceding defeats with such cheap jokes,” he stated.

Fanwo challenged Senator Dino Melaye to go ahead to publish the expenditures of the government between 2016 to 2019, saying, “a good student of accounting and common sense will do good by publishing both income and expenditure.”
He said that the people of Kogi had seen the rice mill the governor is building and the roads under construction, adding that any form of “illogical incitement will be counter-productive.”
His words: “You can see the executives with me here. These are the people who will determine who flies our party’s ticket in November. The person they know is GYB and they will go all out to give him a second term.
“All the people dancing around Abuja are not known to the people. We also thank the federal government for giving us three boreholes in my ward. No senator should claim the glory of the APC-led federal government’s project. Our people are well informed now more than ever,” he said.

He thanked the people of the community and indeed the state for their solidarity during the assassination attempt on him, saying the action of the “cowards is a mark of their impending loss in 2019.”
According to him, “they could not stand the truth. But we shall show them our security architecture is capable of exposing their evil plans against government officials in the state.
“We have not even started yet and they are fidgety. Their mouthpiece senator should know that the people who are candidates for the prisons are the fraudsters that led the state in the past,” Fanwo said.

State governments ought to have been allowed to negotiate the new minimum wage for their workers as the condition of living varies from state to state, Oyo state Governor-Elect, Seyi Makinde, has said.

Seyi MakindeHe told reporters in Abuja after attending the induction programme for returning and newly elected governors, that he intends to negotiate with the state branch of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) because Oyo cannot pay the new National Minimum Wage of N30,000 just signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Makinde said the federal government should not impose a national minimum wage of states since Nigeria is a federation.Asked to assess Oyo’s ability to pay the new wage, the Governor-Elect stated: “It has been signed into law. 
I personally believe that individual states should have been allowed to negotiate this because conditions of living in Lagos are obviously not the same as living in Ibadan.“And I will definitely say without fear or favour that it’s part of the reasons why we are thinking of restructuring. 
That’s a federal system of government.“We have a federation but the state governments I believe, are no subordinate to the federal government. They are coordinate governments.“Then, when the federal government makes a law that says ‘well, we are going to pay 30,000 as minimum wage,’ what’s the condition in my state? Can we support it? I don’t think.
“We are going to engage the Nigeria Labour Congress in my state and we see how we go from there.” NigerianTribune.

Alhaji Musa Umar, the district head of Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown, has been kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen.

GunmenThe News Agency of Nigeria reports that the kidnappers stormed Umar’s Daura residence at 7pm on Wednesday and sporadically shot into the air, scaring the hell out of bystanders, who scampered for safety.
Umar had just returned from the mosque where he took part in the evening prayer when the incident happened.
Umar, who is reportedly the father-in-law of the ADC to President Buhari, was sitting in front of his house with some people when the gun totting men came.
A witness told the News Agency of Nigeria that the kidnappers came in a Peugeot 406 saloon car.
After the gunmen left, the Daura council chairman Malam Abba Mato and hundreds of sympathizers came to Umar’s residence, to discuss the bewildering incident. NAN

The police in Lagos have arrested a man who allegedly attacked and stabbed a spokesperson of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Aderibigbe Oshin-Adisa to death.

Police logoBashiru Ahmed, 21, confessed to committing the crime at the Okokomaiko area of the Lagos-Badagry expressway alongside two others who still are at large, the police said in a statement on Sunday.
The suspect and his accomplices also dispossessed the deceased, who was the public relations officer of NANS joint campus committee, Lagos State chapter, of his mobile phone and laptop.
The police said Mr Ahmed, also known as Kawu, is the son of a popular traditional ruler in Okokomaiko and a “notorious criminal who was charged to court on several occasions by the police for sundry offenses.”
“He returned from prison six months ago and has been on the watchlist [of] the police,” Bala Elkana, the Lagos police spokesperson, said in the statement.
The statement further said the commissioner of police in Lagos State, Zubairu Muazu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti for “discreet investigation.”
“Detectives have spread their tentacles on the trace of the remaining two suspects on the run,” it added.
Mr Oshin-Adisa was a fresh graduate of the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, Lagos, awaiting mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps programme.
In the aftermath of his attack and demise, the Lagos State chapter of NANS had threatened to stage a protest to the police station over the rising insecurity in their school environment.
Contacted on Monday, Yusuff Abdulrasaq, the NANS Lagos State secretary, Said  they are going to hold a meeting with the divisional police officer of Okokomaiko police station, and the outcome would determine their next action.

Oyinkansola, daughter of the late Kwara State political icon, Dr Olusola Saraki, has appealed to the state governor-elect, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak, to immortalise her father.
She said her late father paid his dues in the politics of the state.
She made the call in a statement made available to journalists on Sunday.
Oyinkansola urged the governor-elect not to let the alleged infractions of her brother and President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, stop him from honouring their father.
The statement read, “Congratulations, governor-elect, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak. I am appealing to you sir to immortalise my father, Dr Olusola Saraki, the man believed to be the strong pillar of Kwara State politics during his lifetime.
“With all due respect sir, may I remind you that my father single-handedly established political grounds in Kwara State in the Second Republic.
“It may interest you to know that most governors of the state rode on his popularity and influence to the corridors of power; they include Adamu Atta, Cornelius Adebayo, Mohammed Lawal and his son, Bukola Saraki.
“Everything Bukola is today was my father’s doing, yet he could not think of honouring his father by immortalising him.
“It just shows the kind of son he is. I acknowledge that my brother may have stepped on people’s toes but sir, my father deserves to be honoured in Kwara State.”
Oyinkansola said Abdulrasak would score more political points by immortalising the late Saraki, adding that it was the only way her father’s heritage could live on.
“I believe you will serve the people of Kwara well. I know you are a man of integrity. I am appealing to you sir in the name of Allah to do this for me so that my father’s name and all he has put into the development of Kwara State will not perish,” the statement added.