Tijani Faraday

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it had cautioned some universities offering admissions to candidates on their school portals, without following the guidelines on the Central Admission Processing System. The board stated this in a presentation by its Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, in Abuja, obtained by our correspondent. It listed the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; the University of Ibadan; and the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ogun State as examples. The board warned the universities to “desist from such illegitimate actions.” JAMB said it would not regularise the admission of such candidates not admitted through CAPS. The registrar said, “On the warehousing of candidates into school portal, JAMB has found out that some institutions have devised a method of offering admissions to candidates outside CAPS, on their own designated portals. The device is a ploy to lure innocent and more qualified candidates away from their preferred programmes.

Twenty-three year-old Adeeko Owolabi has narrated how he lured a final year female student of the Lagos State University (LASU), Miss Favour Daley-Oladele, to a church in Osun State. Owolabi lured the victim, 22, to a Cherubim & Seraphim Church at Ikoyi-Ile in Osun State where he allegedly killed the girl  while she was asleep by using a pestle to smash her head, and later her organs were removed for a ‘get-rich quick’ money-making concoction. Owolabi and Favour until her gruesome killing were lovers and she was said to be looking forward to seeing the two of them becoming husband and wife in future, but unknown to her, Owolabi had a sinister agenda. He told detectives in Ogun State that he decided to use Favour for money rituals ostensibly to lift his family out of poverty, explaining that things had not been rosy for his family. He was allegedly assisted in the crime by a self- acclaimed pastor of the white garment church, Segun Philip, who removed the girl’s heart

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said that it will conduct the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination between March 14 and April 4, 2020.  Before then, it added, the candidates would sit for an optional mock examination on February 18. Speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting held on Monday in Abuja, the JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, said the registration for the UTME and Direct Entry would start simultaneously on January 13 and end on February 17, 2020. “Candidates are expected to pay not more than N700 as service charge to the CBT centres for registration. Candidates with biometric abnormalities can only register at JAMB Headquarters in Abuja. They will also sit their examination at JAMB headquarters in Abuja. “The mock examination will hold by February 18, 2020, while the UTME will hold from March 14 to April