Education
Nigeria Universities; no admission for students awaiting result.
Saturday Sun investigations revealed that over one million candidates currently in secondary schools that wrote the 2017 Universities Matriculation Tertiary Examination (UTME) did so as awaiting result candidates, which has been the practice.
In the May/June2017 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), 1,552,772 million candidates registered for the school exam while over 1,200,000 million candidates also registered for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO)
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is currently marking the answer scripts of candidates that wrote the May/June 2017 WASSCE and would release the results in August while the SSCE conducted by NECO is on going nationwide and would be concluded July ending.
Some of the universities have placed adverts inviting prospective candidates for the screening exercise for the 2016/2017 academic session starting this month even as WAEC is yet to release the May/June 2017 WASSCE result, while other candidates are currently writing the SSCE (NECO), which would be released either in September or October.
In some of the advertisements for the screening text, the universities stated that applicants for admissions are to come with original UTME result, WAEC or NECO result, birth certificates, scratch card, local government area and state of origin certificates, testimonial of schools attended, police and medical reports.
The implication is that many of the prospective candidates seeking admission with awaiting results may miss the opportunity unless the Federal Government wades into the issue. The fear of parents and schools is that some of the institutions would have concluded the screening exercise before WAEC and NECO release the results.
The Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun (FUPRE) in its advert inviting applicant’s admission it reads: “Only candidates who have five credits at one or two sittings (including English Language and Mathematics) are eligible to apply. Candidates awaiting results may, however, be considered for the 2016/2017 admissions exercise.’’
Education
4-year-old boy dies after being fed meat in Abuja school
Miguel Ovoke, a four-year-old pupil of Brickhall School in Kaura, Abuja, has died during feeding hours.
Ovoke was said to have been pronounced dead upon arrival at Excel Specialist Hospital, following complications during his lunch on Wednesday.
PUNCH reports that the hospital issued a death certificate stating the boy was brought in by his teachers around 11 am in an unconscious state.
The report, signed by Akinwande Ajayi, on behalf of the medical director, indicated that he was brought in “on account of aspiration on meat while feeding at school”.
The hospital said upon examination, the medical team found that “the boy’s pupils were fixed and dilated with a nonreactive response to light”.
Ovoke’s peripheral pulses were said to be “impalpable, blood pressure was unrecordable, and there was no cardiopulmonary activity or respiratory excursions, silent chest”.
The medical report indicated that all efforts to resuscitate him failed while concluding that he was “brought in dead”.
The sudden nature of Ovoke’s death has, however, prompted his parents to seek justice by contacting Deji Adeyanju, a human rights lawyer.
Brickhall School is said to be owned by Joy Emodi, a member of the 5th and 6th senate. She was appointed chairman of the senate committee on education.
Emodi also served as the special adviser on national assembly matters to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Efforts by TheCable Lifestyle to get the authorities of the school to comment did not materialise as of the time this report was filed.
Education
Father arrested for writing UTME for son
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says cases of people having double national identification numbers (NIN) made impersonation possible in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The statement from the exam body came after a father and his son were arrested for alleged impersonation in the ongoing UTME.
The father, whose name has not been disclosed, was said to have impersonated his son to help the latter pass the university entrance examination.
Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), confirmed the development in an interview on Wednesday.
Oloyede inspected the Kaduna State University (KASU) Computer Based Test (CBT) centre after which he spoke to the press.
He said it is unfortunate that some parents have descended so low in morals to the extent of resorting to such shameful acts.
“Two of them are now in custody. I can’t understand what the father will tell his son when they are locked in the same cell,” Oloyede said.
Oloyede said the 2024 examination recorded huge success, except for a few cases of impersonation.
He said impersonation became possible because some people now have multiple NINs.
“For those who engage in cheating, they should know that it does not pay. The technology is helping us to check that. Across the country, most of the problem we have is impersonation,” he said.
“For instance now, we say we have NIN. We now have cases of people with two NINs. That has defeated the purpose of identity verification. We will take that up with NIMC; that there are people who have two NIN.”
Oloyede said a total of 1.94 million candidates sat for the 2024 UTME.
He added that those who have missed the exam for reasons not caused by JAMB should forget about it.
The registrar said the board cannot spend millions to reorganise a session for candidates who missed it due to their recklessness.
“Most of those candidates who missed the UTME are students from hostels who were made to register through schools because of the money the schools want to collect from the parents in the name of JAMB, They would now put 30 students in one bus,” he said.
“They will now be dropping them in different locations. By they get to the last student’s centre, he is already late for the exam. You will now see the principal writing to me. What business do I have with a school?
“Even a religious body wrote to me that ‘the following 100 candidates, I want them to write their exams on a particular day of the examination’. They were even deciding for me the school to post the candidates. How is that possible?”
Education
Haruna Dlakwa appointed acting VC of Borno State University
Babagana Zulum, the Borno governor, has approved the appointment of Haruna Dlakwa as the acting vice-chancellor (VC) of Borno State University in Maiduguri.
Bukar Tijani, secretary to the state government, confirmed Dlakwa’s appointment in a statement on Wednesday.
Tijani said the appointment followed the recommendation of the university’s governing council at its 10th meeting on April 15.
‘’Zulum extends warm congratulations to Dlakwa and expects the best until the substantive Vice-Chancellor is appointed for the university,’’ he said.
Until this appointment, Dlakwa was the deputy vice-chancellor of academics at the university.
Borno State University was only established in 2016. It has five faculties — including Sciences, Management, Arts, Social Science and Education — with over 20 departments.
The pioneer vice chancellor of the university was Umar Kyari Sandabe.
In June 2021, the university’s senate building was inaugurated by Muhammadu Buhari, former president of Nigeria.
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