“I Am Sorry” – Mmesoma Apologizes To JAMB
The embattled 19-year-old candidate of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma, has tendered a profound apology to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board and the board’s Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede. Mmesoma, who was at the centre of controversy over manipulation of her UTME result, appeared before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Allegations of Manipulation of...
TETfund Says 137 Scholarship Students Sponsored Abroad Refused To Return To Nigeria
The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has said that over 137 students sponsored abroad by the fund absconded. He stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc committee investigating the alleged mismanagement of N2.3tn tertiary education tax by TETFund on Tuesday. Echono said the scholars, who were sponsored by TETFund for “higher...
School Building In Agbado Ogun State Collapses After Heavy Downpour
A one-storey school building in Agbado, in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun state collapsed on Saturday afternoon during heavy rainfall. Our correspondent gathered that the affected building contained ten classrooms belonging to Agbado District Comprehensive High School in the Ifo area of the state. The building collapsed after the heavy rainfall on Saturday which also damaged some roads in...
Reps Seeks 3-Year Validity For JAMB
The House of Representatives has called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to allow its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) results to be valid for at least three years and should conduct entry exams, at least, twice annually. This followed the adoption of a motion by Akintunde Rotimi at plenary on Wednesday. Moving the motion, the lawmaker expressed concerns...
Ex-ASUU President Found Days After Declared Missing, Not Dead
Dr Dipo Fasina, former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, who went missing on July 1 this year in Istanbul, Turkey, has been found. Reports said he was found at the airport in Istanbul where he went missing penultimate Saturday. Recall that Fasina, popularly called ‘Jingo,” was declared missing since July 1. READ ALSO: Five Times JAMB Caught...
Five Times JAMB Caught Candidates Who Falsified Their UTME Results
The case of Ejikeme Mmesoma has raised up findings on previous attempts by candidates to falsifying results. 1. In 2021, a UTME candidate, Ifesinachi John, 19, claimed he scored 380 in the UTME, but the result checker kept showing 265. Master John and his father, John Ifenkpam, accused JAMB of altering his result. The father, therefore, petitioned the examination body...
Okun Indigenes In Abuja Celebrate Newly Established Kogi State University Kabba, Commend Governor Bello
The newly established Kogi State University, Kabba has continued to elicit reactions among indigenes of Kogi State within and outside the country. Recall that the National Universities Commission (NUC) had last month granted approval for the establishment of the University as the 62nd state universities and the 265th universities in the country. The immediate Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed spoke...
JAMB Result Forgery: Innoson Withdraws Mmesoma’s N3m Scholarship
Innoson Vehicles has withdrawn the scholarship it awarded to Mmesoma Ejikeme, the student who forged her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result. Mmesoma had misled the public that she scored 362 in this year’s UTME as against the 249 that she actually scored in the exam. The company had awarded her scholarship while Anambra State government was planning to honour her...
Anambra Govt. Investigative Committee Reveals How Ejikeme Mmesoma Manipulated Her Result With Her Phone
Anambra State Government committee of inquiry set up to look into the controversy surrounding the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result of Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma, has indicted her of forging her result unaided. The Committee revealed in an eight-page report that Mmesoma admitted she forged her results, using her mobile phone without any plausible motivation or help from someone else. The panel...
Mmesoma Reveals Fresh Facts How She Forged Her JAMB Result
Mmesoma Reveals Fresh Facts How She Forged Her JAMB Result Ejikeme Mmesoma, the 19-year-old student of Anglican Girls’ Secondary School, Uruagu Nnewi, Anambra State, has narrated how she manipulated her result. Messoma has been in the news since the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) punctured her claim of being the highest scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB...
