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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – THE Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board. JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, Wednesday said that the Board withheld about 80,889 results of the Computer Based Test, CBT, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME as a result of alleged examination malpractices. The JAMB Registrar also said that investigation was ongoing on the alleged malpractices, adding that at the end of it, candidates that were not culpable, their results will be released. Speaking in Abuja on the outcome of the UMTE, he said that some owners of Computer Based Test centres connived with some parents and candidates to cheat, stressing that names of the cyber café and internet owners that indulged in fraud were being compiled and that such centres will be delisted from the UTME next year. According to him, “So far we have released the results of 1,606,901 leaving us with 80,889, out of this 80,889 we have deliberately withheld 76,923 because ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J *as cleric says coup plotters won’t succeed By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA- Acting President Yemi Osinbajo said on Sunday that every Nigerian must make some sacrifice for the greatness of the country. Speaking at the 2017 Democracy Day Interdenominational church service with the theme: The Dry Bones Shall Live Again”, Ezekiel 37:11, held at the National Christian Centre, Abuja, Osinbajo said that both the leaders and the led must be ready to contribute their quota for the growth of the country. The service was held to essentially mark the nation’s 18 years of unbroken democratic practice in Nigeria. Making allusion to the story of the Good Samaritan as demonstrated in Luke 10:30-37, the Acting President said Nigerians must not be like the politician and cleric in the story who showed no sympathy for the man attacked by thieves. According to him, Nigerians must live like the Good Samaritan that attended to the victim and took him to the hospital. He said: “Whe...