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JAMB to
release 2019
UTME results
from tomorrow
The Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) has assured
candidates of the 2019
Unified Tertiary
Matriculation
Examination (UTME) that
results would be ready
from tomorrow, April 29.
The Board’s Head of
Media and Publicity, Dr
Fabian Benjamin,
disclosed this in an
interview with News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
in Bwari.
Benjamin said that
screening of the results
would soon be over and the
results released.
“We are still screening
but hopefully, anytime
next week, the results will
be ready,” he said.
Speaking also on the
board’s readiness to screen
results of UTME
candidates from 2009 to
2018, Benjamin said this
would begin after the
release of the 2019 results.
He said this was part of
the board’s effort to
address the issues of
malpractice in the system.
The board had stated
that it would only release
the 2019 UTME results
after undergoing thorough
screening to identify and
apprehend examination
cheats.
The process would
identify those involved in
multiple registration
through biometric
capturing and also
address group registration
by some elite schools, who
end up mixing candidate’s
data.
The board said:
“Normally, results are
expected to be out within
24 to 48 hours as obtained
in previous examinations
held in 2017 and 2018.
“However, the board
does not want this to be
business as usual.
“Hence the programmed
delay, which is part of its
deliberate effort to
properly scrutinize,
identify and address all
forms of examination
malpractice.
“The board will continue
to act decisively with
regards to any irregularity
discovered even after
results are released.
“However, the board has
made it a point of duty to
screen all activities at all
centres via CCTV
recordings, to ensure that
it does not release results
of compromised
examinations.”
The board, while
regretting
all
inconvenience caused in
the process, reaffirmed its
commitment to providing
equal opportunity to all
candidates in order to
articulate their
aspirations.
JAMB said that effective
from when it would
officially release the
results, all candidates can
simply send RESULT, via
SMS, to 55019 using the
same number that was
used for registration.
The result, it said, would
be replied as an SMS
shortly after.
This process, the board
explained, was simplified to
eliminate exploitation by
business centres and cyber
cafés who often take
advantage of candidates.
It also urged candidates to
ignore all messages in
circulation on how to check
the results as they were all
products of deceit.
Enugu State Governor, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (2nd right) with the
Catholic Bishop of Enugu Doicese, Most Rev. Dr. Callistus Onaga (middle);
Vice Chancellor of Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Prof. Christian Anieke
(right); son of Hon. Justice Priscilla Ngozi Emehelu, the Chief Judge of
Enugu State, Ogugua (left) and daughter of Chief Dubem Onyia, former
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mukosolu, during the couple's Wedding
Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Parish, Trans-Ekulu, Enugu, yesterday.
Lagos NANS spokesperson
stabbed to death
Some
hoodlums
stabbed to death
Aderibigbe Oshin-
Adisa, the public relations
officer of the National
Association of Nigerian
Students (NANS), joint
campus committee, Lagos
State chapter.
Mr Oshin-Adisa, a fresh
graduate of the Federal
College of Fisheries and
Marine Technology, Lagos,
was attacked at the
Okokomaiko area of the
Lagos-Badagry expressway.
Bleeding profusely from
the stab wounds, on
Thursday Mr Oshin-Adisa
managed to get to the police
station at Okokomaiko and
was rushed to the Badagry
2019 World Malaria Day: Mortein, FG Partner
for a Malaria Free Nigeria
In continuation of its
fight against malaria
and as part of
activities to mark this
year’s World Malaria Day,
held under the theme:’ Zero
malaria starts with me’ ,
Reckitt Benckiser (RB),
makers of Mortein
insecticide, joined forces
with the National Malaria
Elimination Program
(NMEP), Lagos and Abia
State governments, to
scale up action on the
elimination of malaria in
Nigeria.
Speaking at the press
briefing in Abuja to
commemorate the 2019
WMD, the Marketing
Director, RB West Africa,
Leferink Aliza, said the
collaborations were part of
numerous activities by the
company to end the
prevalence of the malaria
scourge in Nigeria and
General Hospital by police
officers, PREMIUM
TIMES learnt.
He died the next day.
Yusuff Abdulrasaq, the
NANS Lagos State
Secretary, said the rising
state of insecurity in their
area is becoming
unbearable and the students
would demand justice for
Mr Oshin-Adisa.
“The same road (Lagos-
Badagry expressway)
harbours two tertiary
institutions, Lagos State
University and Adeniran
Ogunsanya College of
Education, if the students’
spokesman can be attacked
and eventually lost his life,
definitely many of the
students and commuters are
Why companies are closing down
in Nigeria — Expert
r Aliyu Ilias, the
MExecutive Director,
Save the Consumers
Initiative, yesterday, said
companies in Nigeria and
Africa are closing down due
to bad customer services.
He made the assertion in
Abuja at a public presentation
of a book he authored on
“Understanding Customer
Experience in Africa”.
According to him, if
companies must secure high
patronage of goods and
services they produce, they
must give people good
experience that will
guarantee high patronage
and make for high profit.
“Manufacturers, producers
need to redirect their products
and services to offer good
customer service experience,
if not, companies from
outside Nigeria and Africa
will come and take the money
away.
“They must learn how to
give people good experience,
good experience will make
people to patronise them.
Some companies are going
out of business because of
bad customer experience.
“African’s, Nigerian’s, don’t
complain but they will go
behind and tell each other
Africa as a whole. Aliza
said the partnership with
state and Federal
Governments, which has
been on-going for years,
further demonstrated the
company’s efforts and
commitment at different
levels in the fight to ensure
a malaria free country.
“The theme challenges
all of us to make a
personal commitment to
saving lives and helping
communities to thrive by
ending malaria. Decades
of significant progress
against the disease have
slowed as cases of malaria
increased in 2016 and
2017. There is an urgent
need to re-energise the
fight to eliminate the
disease, which still
threatens half of the global
population and kills one
child every two minutes” ,
she added.
not safe,” Mr Abdulrasaq
said in a statement.
“We call on all security
agencies to investigate this
matter and bring all
culprits to justice, the
students will not hesitate to
choose a date to protest
against the insecurity in our
vicinity. An injury to one is
an injury to all.”
Phone calls and text
messages to Bala Elkana,
the police spokesperson in
Lagos State, were not
responded to.
Mr Abdulrasaq told
PREMIUM TIMES,
yesterday morning, that the
students’ association would
go to the police station
today “to get full report
about the case which might
lead to peaceful protest as
the case may be.”
about what they experienced
with such companies.
“This is why a book like this
is written to guide people to
retain their customers and to
stop customer shunning,” he
said.
Ilias said that Africans do
not want to spend their
monies where they would not
be appreciated, adding that
competitors would always
want to push rival companies
out of business due to lack of
good customer service
experience.
He said that for Africa to
have standard consumer
policy, the African Union
must come together to
formulate the policy and
ensure that companies
adhered to them.
Brand Manager, West
Africa, Reckitt Benckiser,
Phoebe Larry Izamoje,
explained that, through
the grassroots community
engagement, RB educates
communities on the
importance of hygiene and
how the simple habit of
maintaining clean
surroundings and
drainages can significantly
help to reduce malaria
exposure.
Minister of Health, Prof.
Isaac Adewole, in his address
at the event, said this year’s
campaign draw significant
attention to the need to
completely eradicate the
malaria scourge in the
country. He commended
all stakeholders for their
work and sustained
support in the fight against
malaria through
collaborations with the
government.
Why we are sponsoring CNN
African Voices – Glo
lobacom, national tele
Gcommunications operator
and exclusive sponsor of
African Voices on CNN International,
says the need to give
Africa a genuine platform to
tell its own story informed its
decision to sponsor the programme
since 2010.
The Executive Vice Chairman
of the company, Mrs
Bella Disu, said this at the
10th Anniversary Cocktail
held by CNN in Victoria Island,
Lagos, on Thursday to
celebrate a decade of uninterrupted
broadcast of the
programme.
She told the audience,
which comprised Glo dealers,
publishers and chief executive
officers of major media
organisations, popular
bloggers, entertainment stars
and prominent Nigerians,
that CNN African Voices had,
in the past ten years, brought
to limelight several African
legends and budding talents
who are making a difference
in various fields of endeavour.
These include young entrepreneurs
like Ethiopia's Abai
Schulze and legends like the
late Chinua Achebe.
"Africa has always had rich
stories, cultures and innovations.
We have never lacked
talents, what we lacked were
platforms to amplify them in
a reverend and authentic
manner," she stated, adding
that CNN African Voices, had
"played its part by sport-lighting
a continent that has a lot
to offer to the world, and undoubtedly
accelerating its
global influence".
"At Globacom, we play our
C&S Council of Prophets celebrates
50 years of Mount Horeb
Members of the Cheru
bim and Seraphim
Movement worldwide will,
from 29 April -3 May, gather
at Orile-Igbon, Oyo State, for
the Annual Mount Horeb ascension,
a programme organized
yearly by the
International Council of
Prophets of the Cherubim and
Seraphim Movement
Church (Worldwide) Ayo Ni
O. The programme will also
take in the 50th anniversary
of Mount Horeb ascension
and
Thanksgiving. According
to Prophet Abiodun Ogunsakin,
Conference General
Secretary, the theme of the
part by providing world class
telecommunication services,
and supporting platforms
that promote growth and success.
And to this end, I look
forward to many more years
of mutually beneficial partnership
with CNN", she concluded.
Also speaking at the cocktail,
Account Director, CNN
International Commercial,
Zara Driss, said, “we are
proud to work with such a
committed, long-standing
sponsor of a show that shares
our passion about the diverse
culture of Africa. Together
with Globacom, we look forward
to this new era of African
Voices and its television
and digital programming
that will raise the profile of
the continent’s change makers
amongst international
audience”.
In her own remarks, the
Supervising Producer of African
Voices, Jenni Watts,
said, “it is humbling to come
to Africa to see the impact of
the stories and have time to
reflect,” adding that she was
a huge fan of Chimanmanda
Adiche who is well loved by
Mrs Michelle Obama.
Among those who attended
the event were juju music
maestro, King Sunny Ade,
and Orente singer, Adekunle,
Gold who entertained guests.
Globacom started sponsoring
African Voices nine years
ago, and has over the years
contributed to changing the
narrative in the world information
order by allowing Africans
to tell their own stories
to the world without misrepresentations.
programme is “Conquering
Faith; The Triumph of the
Church”.
“Today’s church is confronted
by enemies on every
side and the persecution of
believers is severe in nations,
said Ogunsakin, who added
that the theme has been carefully
and prayerfully chosen
to further reiterate the great
commission which is the triumph
of the church through
the power of Jesus Christ.
The conference will include
keynote addresses, workshop,
seminars, presentations,
games, spiritual fitness programmes,
vigil and 2019 Ascension
of Mount Horeb.
Tecno Launches Spark 3
Series with AI Technology
By Destiny Eseaga
frica's preferred smart
Aphone maker, TECNO
Nigeria has launched a
new smartphone series, the
SPARK 3, witnessed by
Government representatives,
dealers, celebrities
and the media amongst
others in Lagos, recently.
The phone maker noted
that the latest device will
make better pictures with
bright and clear selfies as
it comes upgraded with AI
Technology to light up
smartphone experience.
Welcoming guests, Brand
Manager TECNO
Nigeria, Luke Pan said: '
We are proud to announce
the release of TECNO
SPARK 3 series. Equipped
with the latest AI Technology,
the success of SPARK
3 is predicted to surpass
that of its predecessors.
SPARK 3 takes photography
to a whole new level
as it is a by-product of rigorous
research of many
human faces. Come and try
SPARK 3 series, the AI
Beauty Mode will blow
your mind.'
Also speaking, PR and
Strategic Partnership
Manger, TECNO Nigeria,
Jesse Oguntimehin said:
'TECNO, as Africa’s most
preferred smartphone
brand, is known for devices
that provide premium
experiences at a price and
value that dwarf those of its
closest competitors, so
without a doubt, SPARK fans
will be delighted to have and
share experiences with the
new SPARK 3 series'
In its customary way of
giving back, TECNO mobile
also kicked off the 3rd edition
of its Light up Your Dream
campaign through a feature
short film that detailed the
journey and achievements of
previous winners.
Announcing this, Deputy
Marketing Manager, Tecno
Nigeria, Atai Oguche mentioned
that unlike previous
editions, this year's edition
would produce seven millionaires
who would be selected
via online and
offline platforms