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A teenage Nigerian woman seeking for admission has reportedly taken her own life after securing a very low UTME score.  An admission-seeker simply identified as Loveth has reportedly killed herself in Ekiugbo, Ughelli North local government area of Delta State.   According to The Nation, Loveth, who was said to be displeased with the 163 mark she garnered in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), was found dead at her home on Wednesday morning.   Before her death, she had applied to study medicine in the university. She reportedly died after taking three bottles of Sniper which was found by her side on Wednesday morning.   According to sources, Loveth had gone to check her UTME result on Tuesday and discovered to her amazement that she had scored far lower than she had expected and would not secure admission to the university to study her  “dream course.”   The 18-year old reportedly left the centre very distraug...

A major fracas broke out amongst Nigerian law enforcement agencies in Abuja on Wednesday, after an attempt to seal a Road Safety office went awry. PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the violence broke out after soldiers and policemen attached to The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) tried to serve the Road Safety office in Wuze Zone 7 a violation notice. The police officers and soldiers attached to the AEBP officials allegedly assaulted a female Road Safety marshal in the process, leading to confrontation. The AEPB task force members denied assaulting the Road Safety personnel, saying they were resisted from sealing the Road Safety office as ordered by a magistrate’s court. During the fight, a soldier was reportedly wounded and a civilian staff of the AEPB was “taken hostage” by the Road Safety marshals. In turn, soldiers and police officers who were part of the AEPB team seized a Road Safety officer. A female legal officer at AEPB, Esther Isaac, who led the team to e...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has clarified that cut-off points are not set by the body. The exams will begin on Saturday May 13, 2017 .   He explained that a policy committee chaired by the Minister of Education, with the Board, Vice-Chancellors, Provosts of Colleges of Education and Polytechnic Rectors as members, is saddled with the task. The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, said this at the news briefing on Tuesday in Bwari, in preparation for the conduct of this year’s UTME. He described cut-off points to be a minimum requirement and not an indication that one was admissible. The JAMB boss reiterated the Board’s resolve to prepare more after learning all the lessons from its past to organize for a successful examination. “Following the continuous determination to curb the incidence of examination malpractice and other related offences, we will use the Biometric Verification Machine to verify candidates b...

JAMB: Two identical twins arrested for malpractice in 2018 UTME Two identical twins have been arrested for alleged examination malpractice in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), at the University of Maiduguri centre, Borno. Mr Babagana Gutti, Chief Examiner Officer in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the twins were apprehended by the security operatives on Saturday in Maiduguri. Gutti said that the lookalike brothers tricked invigilators and security personnel to gain entrance to the centre. The JAMB official explained that one, Hussain Andulhammeed, was captured in the biometric registration for the Computer Based Test (CBT), adding that this brother Hassan took advantage of their semblance and sat for the examination in place of his brother. “We do not suspect foul play until one of the invigilators noticed the other identical twin outside the examination hall. “The invigilator became curious and asked him few que...

Some candidates who sat for the ongoing 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) say they found the use of computers challenging. One the candidates, Aliyu Dikko who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said the questions were not as challenging as the use of the computer. Aliyu said that his inability to use the computer was because he was coming from a rural part of the town and that access to the such gadget was a challenge. He said that the little knowledge he had on the use of computer was a bit different from what he experienced while sitting for the examination. “For instance, I got so tensed I skipped to the next page when I was not through with the one I was answering. “Apart from this, everything went fine with me; I’ll just go and pray that God favours me,” he said. Another candidate, Temitope Momodu said that it was just two weeks ago that she familiarises herself with the use of a computer. She said that her school, which was go...

Experts have provided an insight into the massive p*nis of a Mexican man claiming to have the biggest manhood in the world.  Roberto Esquivel Cabrera from Saltillo, Mexico, has the longest p*nis in the world, with a member measuring a mammoth 18.9 inches, making Jonah Falcon’s famed phallus look like a flaccid flop.   Despite health concerns expressed by medical experts over the size of this trouser snake, Roberto is practically unmoved and looks forward to even more adventurous life as a Porn Star when he finally gets to America.   Doctors and experts have given an insight into his condition in this video.   Watch video below:  

A Catholic Priest has found himself in deep trouble after he unknowingly partook in the trafficking of a little baby in Osun State.                                   Rev. Father Chike Ejiofor and the other suspects A Reverend Father, along with other culprits, has been arrested for stealing an 18-month-old baby in Osogbo, Osun state. The child was kidnapped from his mother and sold to an orphanage. The priest, Rev. Father Chike Ejiofor, who heads Our Lady of Fatima parish in Woliwo, Onitsha, Anambra State, is believed to have unknowingly become an accomplice after a parishioner approached him that she wanted to adopt a child and he referred her to the orphanage the baby was sold to and even helped her through the process. Among those arrested was 28-year-old Joy Esu. According to Punch, Joy approached the mother of 18-month-old Abdullahi Azeez at her shop in Osogbo and pretended that she wan...

Fear has gripped residents of Ezimuku, Agbaja in Abatete area of Anambra state after a young man killed his own father and stabbed his mother in a shocking incident.  A young man killed his own father and stabbed his mother in a tragic incident which happened earlier today at Ezimuku, Agbaja in Abatete area of Anambra state.   The young man was arrested by the Abatete vigilante group and placed in handcuffs as he was handed over to the police.   The identity of the victim, the suspect and the reason he meted out the horror on his parents are still unknown as at the time of filing this report.  

An asthma patient has died after a doctor reportedly refused to attend to her because she came late to the hospital.  A five-year-old girl died of an asthma attack after a doctor refused to see her because she was late to her appointment, an inquest heard today. Little Ellie-May Clark, who suffered from ‘life-threatening asthma’, was taken to her surgery after falling ill at school.   Mum Shanice Clark had called the clinic for an emergency appointment after Ellie-May had been unable to walk home and was wheezing. But Shanice said she was five minutes late to Ellie-May’s 5pm appointment and then had to wait in line to speak to the receptionist. An inquest heard she reached the reception desk of The Grange Clinic in Newport, South Wales between 5.10pm and 5.18pm.   But because the surgery had a ’10 minute rule’ for lateness, GP Dr Joanne Rowe told Shanice and Ellie-May to return the next day. After being turned away, the little girl was left in tears and asked...

A popular politician will die by hanging after he killed a man who tried to separate a fight between him and the girlfriend. A Lusaka Court has sentenced a prominent opposition politician to death for killing a guard who tried to mediate in the politician’s fight with his girlfriend.   Keith Mukata, a Zambian politician shot the guard dead as the latter was attempting to separate him from a girlfriend the politician was fighting with. “The Lusaka High has sentenced Chilanga UPND Member of Parliament, [Keith] Mukata to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murder,”  Africareview reported.   Mukata’s co accused and girlfriend Charmane Musonda, was acquitted due to lack of evidence.   The duo was arrested on May 6, 2017 for allegedly shooting to death the security guard, Mr Namakambwa Kalilakwenda.   Lusaka High Court Judge Susan Wanjelani was quoted saying there was overwhelming evidence that Mukata killed his security guard. ...

Umar Abubakar aka Yellow, a kidnapper and associate of notorious kidnapper and cattle rustler, known as General in Zamfara state is one of the deadly criminals recently apprehended by the Department of State Services. According to a statement made available to Vanguard by Tony Opuiyo on behalf of the DSS, said the Department of State Services (DSS), have released names of notorious and wanted criminals caught in various parts of the country in joint operations with sister security agencies in a bid to rid the country of malevolent elements.   Top on the list of those taken in by the DSS are: Barnabas Torva Amadi also known as Ataminin, who, according to the security agency, actively participated in the kidnap and murder of Hosea Ibi, a member of the Taraba State House of Assembly.   Other suspects arrested were: Aondi Tersoo, Nengenen Mbaawuaga Damian, Aondoase Kayitor, and Ternenge Tersoo.   The joint operation also led to the arrest of 23-year-old Isai...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Examinations for candidates seeking admission into the university have since posed serious challenges to students. JAMB has gradually become the most feared name in the education sector of Nigeria and preparing for the examination is something that demands a lot of time, commitment, discipline, and hard work. I have never seen anyone perform outstandingly in JAMB or in any other thing worthwhile without putting together these three things apart from those that engage in examination malpractice which is something that is usually regretted in a thousand and one ways in the future. Let us discuss eight straight-forward steps you can take to prepare yourself for JAMB. As easy to mention as these steps are, I must say that the simplicity ends there, in practice, they are actually difficult but are very practical steps that every outstanding student I’ve ever met practiced in their own way to overcome JAMB in their...