Education
‘We were treated like cows’ — abducted Kaduna student narrates how he escaped from captivity
Mustapha Abubakar, one of the students who were abducted by bandits in Kaduna, has narrated how he escaped from captivity.
On Thursday morning, bandits invaded a primary and secondary school in Kuriga community in Chikun LGA of Kaduna and abducted 287 school children, including their teachers.
Speaking with BBC Hausa, on Monday, Abubakar said their abductors treated them like cows, adding that they were made to walk for a long distance till they got exhausted.
“We were all thirsty; some of us were exhausted and even started falling. The bandits carried those that fell on their motorcycles,” he said.
Abubakar said they later arrived at a place where there was a river. He said they drank water from the river after which they continued walking.
He further said a plane was surveilling the area, adding that the bandits instructed them to lie on the ground.
“The bandits instructed us that whoever has two shirts should remove one and lie on the ground,” he said.
“Even the bandits too were tired. They did not have food with them. They were just plucking fruits from trees. They did not give us anything to eat.
“While we were walking, I saw a bushy place which had a similar colour to my trouser and quickly hid there. I started to move in there like a snake.
“I spent some hours there waiting for the bandits to leave the area before I came out and started running.”
He said he met an old man who was walking very slowly and asked him where the nearest village or road was or where he could find water.
Abubakar noted that he kept running, even though he was feeling dizzy, he did not stop until he luckily found himself in a community called Gayan.
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna, has assured that all the abducted school children and teachers will be rescued.
Education
JAMB student automatically fails as he mistakenly clicks submit at the beginning of exam
A Nigerian guy recalls how his friend accidentally pushed the submit button at the commencement of his UTME.
@princejoexclusive revealed that the UTME applicant made an expensive mistake after months of preparation.
“Based on true life story, I didn’t know if I should laugh at the guy or should cry for him,” @princejoexclusive captioned his post on TikTok.
@princejoexclusive made a video inspired by his friend’s JAMB UTME situation, which drove internet into a frenzy.
The boy’s error means that he would flunk the exam because no score could be calculated for him on any of the subjects.
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?”
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