EDUCATION

Alleged UTME result manipulation : Former NUC boss, Okebukola reacts

Daily Dispatch July 6, 2023

A former Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola has averred that the Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma episode should be a warning to potential Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination cheats, that the Board is several jumps ahead of them. Prof

EDUCATION

Embattled Ejikeme Joy finally admits she scored 249 in JAMB, not 362

Daily Dispatch July 5, 2023

“After all said and done, I now saw that I got 249. I sent them a text message there to know what really happened — the JAMB Support System. If they go to their system, they will see it there.”These were the words of the embattled candidate Mmesoma Ejikeme Joy on the controversy raging between […]

EDUCATION

Ejikeme: JAMB bars her for three years, withdraw result

Daily Dispatch July 4, 2023

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has withdrawn the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, result of Ms Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and barred her for three years over her alleged fake result. JAMB made the announcement in a statement issued by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin. The statement reads in part: “In the meantime, the management […]

EDUCATION

Mmesoma: NEFGAD Calls For Suspension Of JAMB Registrar

Daily Dispatch July 4, 2023

A civil society group Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD) has called for the immediate suspension of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede to allow for a seamless forensic investigation of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) of Ejikeme Mmesoma. Coordinator of

BUSINESS EDUCATION

CBN urges FUTA to adopt e-naira for all financial transactions

Daily Dispatch July 3, 2023

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has urged the management and students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), to adopt the e-naira platform for all their financial transactions. Mr Samuel Giwa, the Acting Branch Controller of the CBN in Akure, made the appeal on Monday at FUTA during an e-naira sensitisation programme. Giwa […]

EDUCATION

Anambra pupil accused of forgery breaks silence, says ‘I printed my result from JAMB portal’

Daily Dispatch July 3, 2023

Ejikeme Mmesoma, the Anambra pupil, has dismissed allegations that she manipulated her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result. Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, has been a subject of intense debate over the claim that she got 362 in this year’s UTME. On Sunday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said