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  • JAMB fixes May 17-31 for UTME

    JAMB fixes May 17-31 for UTME

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday fixed May 17 to 31 for the conduct of 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) through Computer Based Test (CBT).

    This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Fabian Gabriel, the Head of Public Relations of the board, and issued to newsmen in Abuja.

    According to the statement, the CBT will take place in over 163 centres in Nigeria and abroad, saying the date was sacrosanct.

    The statement also described CBT as the best mode of examination.

    It, however, urged the candidates to reprint their e-slip in the event they missed or misplaced their schedules.

    “Over 616,000 candidates are expected to sit for the examination with over 250 prisoners in Kaduna and Ikoyi prisons,” it added.

    “The CBT remains the best mode as it provides better platform for the candidates to articulate their educational pursuit.

    “It eliminates result black-out or incomplete results and eliminates examination malpractice and enhances prompt release of scores two hours after the examination, among other benefits too numerous to mention,” the statement said.

    It added that the board was determined to go full-blown with CBT in 2015 UTME, owing to success recorded in 2013 and the quests to sanitise the education sector.

    The statement said that CBT was introduced in 2012 while the maiden edition was conducted in the 2013 UTME alongside the conventional Paper Pencil Test and Dual Based Test.

    The statement reported Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, Registrar of JAMB, as saying that the desire to go full swing with CBT in 2015 was non-negotiable.

    It urged Nigerians to see it as a revolution in the examination industry. (NAN)

  • Anambra tops in NECO exam

    Few days after West African Examination Council (WAEC)  statistics showed that Anambra State topped in Nigeria in the 2013 West African Senior  School Certificate Examination ( WASSCE), the Sate has recorded another first in the National Examination Council (NECO) 2013  organized National Common Entrance Examination.

    Besides being the overall best in the country, an indigene of the State,  Agbasi Praise Chinemelum, with the Registration number of 424953GE emerged the best candidate in the examination.

    Speaking on the development, the immediate past Commissioner for Education in the State, Dr. Uju Okeke said it was another demonstration of the fruits from the huge investment of the former Governor of the State and the Honorary Special Adviser to the President of Finance , Chief Peter Obi in education.

     He expressed confidence that the performance of the State would even be better in the coming years, when the effects of return of schools to their owners, provision of boreholes, generators, INTERNET facilities, computers and other infrastructure to Anambra Schools would begin to manifest.

    Confirming the performance of Anambra State, the National Examination Council State Officer, Anambra state Mr, John Tumba congratulated the State on the feat. He urged the new Governor ,Mr Willie Obiano to leverage on what the former Governor , Chief Obi did in the spirit of continuity to enable the state continue with its lead in national examinations.

  • Agents bitter over high examination cost

    IMPORTERS and agents are complaining about the scan-ning of their cargoes because they are subjected to 100 per cent examination at Tin-can Island Container Terminal (TICT).

    The National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) said the process makes their members pay more for consignments.

    Its National Secretary, Uchu Block, who spoke on behalf of the group, said TICT is worse than other terminals at Tin-Can.

    He noted that most goods scanned there are referred for physical examination resulting in about 10 days further delay.

    He cited what happened to him recently, saying a client imported a 20-foot container of completely knocked down (CKD) suit cases that came in through TICT.

    He said the container was routed for scanning and after it was done, the result showed that there was discrepancy because of the zip and other components of the item.

    He noted that the container spent extra 10 days at the port before physical examination was performed on it while his client had to pay N30,000 more than the duty on the consignment as terminal operator and shipping company charges.

     

  • Unregistered OOU students march over exemption from examination

    Students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, yesterday protested the decision of the institution’s management to bar unregistered students from participating in the examination that should have begun yesterday.

    They barricaded the entrance to the main campus and prevented people from going into the school.

    The Assistant Commissioner of Police (Operations), Mr. Mohammed Abdulkadri and the Ijebu Area Commander, Mr. Usman Alabi, urged the students to shelve the protest, but they were adamant.

    The police eventually dispersed them with tear gas.

    In a statement on Sunday, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Taiwo Adeoluwa, advised students who were yet to regularise their status to stay clear of the institution.

    The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Saburi Adesanya, said the regularisation was in line with the National University Commission’s (NUC’s) directive requesting all universities to provide a comprehensive students’ audit within the next six weeks.

    Adesanya told reporters that the only way to achieve this is to compile a list of authentic students, who have paid their tuition fees.

    He said: “The protesters are students who failed to meet the May 17 deadline to comply with the instruction before the commencement of the examination of 500-level law students.

    “The deadline was shifted more than three times to allow them complete their registration, which some of them refused to do.”