1.5m candidates to write UTME, Saturday

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Tuesday, said that 1.5million candidates will sit for the Saturday,  March 24th,  2012, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME in Nigeria and six other countries.

Prof  Dibu Ojerinde, JAMB Registrar at a press briefing held in Abuja, Tuesday revealed that a total of 1, 503,931 candidates are expected to sit for the 2012 UTME in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin, London, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.


Ojerinde added that the figure is the highest since the UTME started three years ago with a marginal increase of 10,338 candidates over the 1, 493,603 that sat for the exam last year.

The Saturday exams, Ojerinde stated would hold simultaneously in 375 towns spread across 3,001 centres  in the country, adding that the board had to create 129 additional centres this year against the 2,872 centres used last year.
 
Only 500,000 for admission  this year
According to Ojerinde,  the admission capacity across all the tertiary institutions in the country is about 500,000 .

This he said is a leap in the admission capacity compared to the 467,000 capacity of last year.

Reps Members Quit Over Bribe Crisis

The controversy surrounding the probe of the Security and Exchange Commission by the House of Representatives has claimed its first set of victims.
This is evident in the decision of the Chairman of the Committee, Herman Hembe, to step down from headship of the committee as well as disqualify himself from the on-going probe of the sector.

The leadership of the House also announced that the entire membership of the committee have also stepped down.

According to Hembe, his decision to step down followed the allegations of bribery and other conflict of interest and bias levelled against him by the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Arunma Oteh, last Thursday, at the public hearing organised by the committee.

Oteh had during the hearing, accused Hembe of demanding a bribe of N39 million from SEC for the hearing. She also accused Mr Hembe of demanding N5million from the commission to enable him travel to the Dominican Republic to attend an Emerging market conference without embarking on the journey and did not return the money after failing to attend the conference.

The DG made these accusations in response to the claims by the Committee that she has mismanaged the affairs of the commission and the committee was out to tarnish her integrity.

She questioned the credibility of the Chairman of the committee in conducting the probe, considering her allegations. Oteh had been accused spending huge funds belonging to the commission on personal issues. She was accused of spending N30 million during her eight-month stay at the Transcorp Hilton hotel, Abuja and N850,000 on a single day on food. She was also accused of compromising her office by engaging two employees of Access Bank Plc. on secondment to her office. Hembe said this led to a situation which placed a firm that should be under SEC’s watch at an unfair advantage.

In his response, Mr Hembe noted all the allegations listed by the SEC and subjected himself and the committee to another probe which he urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to take up.

Hembe said he neither demanded nor took any bribe from the SEC DG, “but rather fought hard to resist any such temptation.” He said SEC made overtures to the committee through a memo ahead of the probe, vowing to go to court to clear his name.

Arising from these, the House immediately set up an ad-hoc committee to be headed by Ibrahim El-Sudi from Taraba state to take up the activities of the capital market committee. The new committee is expected to produce a new schedule within 21 days.

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Dbanj releases Oliver Twist video without Don Jazzy

Musician and entertainer, Dapo Oyebanjo aka D’Banj, has released the video of his Oliver Twist track, in the wake of his rumoured split with associate, Michael Collins aka Don Jazzy.

Interestingly, Don Jazzy is not in the video.

This is the first time since both men formed the Mo’Hits group in 2004 that Don Jazzy is not featuring in a video released by D’Banj.

The split, which was confirmed in a tweet by Don Jazzy on Saturday, followed D’Banj’s deal with G.O.O.D Music, owned by American rapper, Kanye West.

Pusha T, Big Sean and Kanye West, who are all members of the G.O.O.D Music team, appear in the new video.
D’Banj has so far not reacted to Don Jazzy’s comments.

On Monday, a member of the Mo’Hits crew, Dr. Sidney Esiri aka Dr Sid, said Don Jazzy had not been given appreciation commensurate to his contributions to the group.

On the Mo’Hits website, the label is introduced thus: “Founded in 2004, Mo Hits Records is the Brainchild of prolific Music Producer, Singer and Song Writer Michael “Don Jazzy” Ajereh, with its first recording artiste being D’banj. The label has since signed four other talents (Wande Coal, Dr SID D’prince and K-Switch).
 

“Since inception these artistes have collectively won multiple awards and sold over 50 Million records worldwide.

“Mo hits Records, in 2008 also branched out into the production of TV content with the airing of the 2009 reality TV show “Koko Mansion” and in 2011 “The Entertainer”.

In a recent interview with Ebony magazine, D’Banj reportedly said he owned Mo’Hits and that Don Jazzy was one of his artistes.

But the online version of the interview was corrected a few days later to read that D’Banj and Don Jazzy jointly own Mo’Hits.

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2,140 ex-soldiers sue FG over unpaid pension

A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned till Friday to hear a suit filed before it by 2,140 ex-soldiers who fought during the Nigerian Civil war between 1967 and 1970.

The retired soldiers are asking the high court to invoke its original jurisdiction and order the Federal Government to forthwith, pay pension benefits and other entitlements due to them since the past 42 years after they bowed out of active service.

In an originating summons they filed through their counsel, Mr. Femi Falana, the plaintiffs contended that having contributed their quota towards securing the territorial integrity of the country by fighting on the side of Nigeria against Biafra insurrection, it was unconstitutional and unjust for the government to refuse paying their pension benefits since the Civil war ended.

Consequently, they are praying the trial court to issue a declaration that each of them is entitled to payment of pension benefits computed in accordance with the due process of the law.

Joined as defendants in the suit are the Minister of Defence, Dr Haliru Bello Mohammed and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minster of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN.

Meanwhile, when the case came up for hearing, Monday, trial judge, Justice Donatus Okorowo asked all the parties to appear before him on Friday to address the court on the issue of jurisdiction.

Justice Okorowo noted that in view of the nature of the case, he would want both the defence counsel, Mr. A.O Alilu and counsel to the plaintiffs, Mr Falana, to argue on whether it is the federal high court or the National Industrial Court, NIC, that has the requisite jurisdiction to handle the matter.

Fire guts UNILAG Faculty of Science building

An early morning fire on Tuesday gutted some offices in the Physics Department of the Faculty of Science building at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos State.

The fire appeared to have broken out from the second floor of the three-storey building, causing panic in the school.

It took the combined effort of firemen from the Federal Fire Service, Lagos State Fire Service, Yaba College of Technology and UNILAG as well as staff and students of the institution to put out the fire.

There is no information about the cause of the fire or the extent of damage.
More details later.