9 Jul 2016

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JAMB Denies Introducing New Admission Policy, Read New Development

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has distanced itself from media reports that it imposed the Point System Option (PSO) on higher institutions as the new admission guidelines for 2016 admission processes.
Distancing itself from such report, the examination body described it as a figment of the imagination of its proponents.
Speaking with Saturday Telegraph , the Head of JAMB’s Media and Information Unit, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the examination body at no point made such a recommendation.
He noted that a section of the media had only scooped the information from a presentation to some education stakeholders by the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, which was posted on the examination body’s website.
This is even as he added that as against the report, JAMB would no longer issue any admission letter to any candidate but would ensure that the three admission pillars of Merit, Catchment Area and the Education Disadvantaged Areas must be observed by all the higher institutions across the country.
He said:-
“It is irresponsible for any media to have credited any information that did not emanate from JAMB to us. JAMB did not create any new admission guidelines. Some people just went to our website to pick a document which was presented to a session of stakeholders comparing various admission systems by different institutions.
“No university or polytechnic is instructed by JAMB to adopt such a policy. In fact, we won’t issue admission letter any longer as the Minister has mandated us.
“What we are to do is to provide admission list and album to the institutions and ensure that the 45 per cent for merit; 35 per cent for catchment area and the 20 per cent for education disadvantaged areas, are observed to the letter. The universities are to issue admission letters individually.”

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Barcelona Urges Fans To Support Messi On His 21-month Prison Sentence Case

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Following the 29-year-old’s 21-month prison sentence, the Spanish club have urged their supporters to let the forward know that “he is not alone”
Barcelona have set up a #WeAreAllLeoMessi support campaign in the wake of the Argentine’s tax fraud conviction.
The 29-year-old and his father have been sentenced to 21 months in jail, while the forward has been fined €2 million, after they were found guilty of defrauding Spain’s tax authority of €4.1m between 2007 and 2009.
Messi and his father, who are not expected to serve jail time, have confirmed that they will appeal against the decision.
And now Barcelona have called on their fans to throw their support behind the Argentine by getting involved with the #WeAreAllLeoMessi campaign.
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“Using the hashtag #WeAreAllLeoMessi while posting a photo or message with both hands open, the campaign is encouraging all Barça fans to express their sympathy for the greatest footballer in the world by voicing their unconditional support on social networks.

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Why FG Will Not Negotiate With ND Avengers – Osinbajo

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The Federal Government has given insight into why it would not negotiate with the Niger Delta Avengers, in spite of the militant group’s ruthless precision attacks on critical oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta.
The group, which is the new face of militancy in the region, has vowed to continue carrying out acts of sabotage on oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta in an effort to cripple Nigeria’s economy, until its demands are met.
Speaking a day after three more trunk lines in Bayelsa and Rivers States were blown up by the militant group, Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) said that they (Avengers) are not freedom fighters but economic warriors, who are fighting for their own private pockets.
Professor Osinbajo, who delivered the second foundation lecture of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo state entitled “The Future is here earlier than we thought”, declared that “the so called avengers are not freedom fighters but fighting for their own economic benefits. They are avenging for their private pocket and that is why government is not talking with them”.
He, however, said that the Federal Government has concluded arrangements to tackle the menace of pipeline vandalism in the Niger/Delta region.
While condemning the activities of the militants, who claimed responsibility for the vandalization of petroleum pipelines in the Niger/Delta region, Vice President Osinbajo said “the previous government neglected the region for several years, hence the current challenges in the region. The Federal Government has however put machinery in motion to curtail the activities of Niger/Delta Avengers”.
He also lamented that the activities of the avengers were responsible for the epileptic power supply in the country as well as the inability of state governors to pay workers’ salaries due to the low revenue generated in the oil sector as a result of the attack on pipelines.

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New militant group, Biafra Avengers emerges, declares Biafran territory No-fly zone, vows to kill Buhari!

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“This video is for you the corrupt leaders of the Zoo called Nigeria. Buhari’s family will die soon, and most especially that one called Zara, that is the name I gave to my dog. Buhari has been holding our director.
“I want Buhari to know that nobody has the monopoly of violence, this is the time for him to lose some members of his family. Release our director, Nnamdi Kanu now, if you want any negotiations and you must release him before the end of this month. Today is the 7th of July.”
Those were the words of a self-acclaimed leader of a new militant group, ‘Biafra Avengers’, which emerged in a new video released on Thursday but went viral yesterday.
The man, who identified himself as Ogone Ogochukwu, claims to be a leader of a group that is sympathetic towards the cause of both Niger Delta Avengers and pro-Biafra agitators.
In the video that lasted eight minutes, 55 seconds, Ogochukwu, while threatening to kill President Muhammadu Buhari and all members of the nation’s first family, warned that the consequences would be grave if the Federal Government failed to heed his warning.
The troubling video showed a young man in dark glasses, dressed in camouflage and a bullet-proof vest reading from a prepared speech with the Biafran flag hanging behind him.
Apart from the threat to the government to release Kanu, the group also threatened to go after all the governors of the states that make up Igboland while declaring the old area known as Biafra as a ‘no fly zone’.
The new militants warned that they would bring down any aircraft that go against the group’s demands effective July 7.
He speaks further in the video: “If he fails to release our director, Nnamdi Kanu in the coming days, we warn, we will do what we want to do, and we will carry out our mission. After Buhari, we will go after all the governors in Igboland.
“Buhari should tell his military or Boko Haram members to release Biafra-land now, before the end of this month, otherwise what will become of you people, you will never forget it.
 
“We hereby warn all fake Igbos not to speak for us, we know those that are speaking for us, we will do anything to restore Biafra, more groups are coming, Buhari, you have not seen anything yet. The worst is coming if you fail to release our director.
“We have a link with Niger Delta Avengers. Nigeria will burn to ashes. Today is the 7th of July, I just want to give you serious warning, there should be no flying in Biafra-land. Biafra-land is hereby declared no fly zone’, if you try it, we will bring you down, get the warning now,” Ogochukwu said.
Advising security operatives not to bother looking for him, he said that he hailed from Orogun in Delta State and that he had no relations through whom he could be traced. He asserted that he had nothing to lose if died in the course of the Biafran mission.
“I have no mum, I have no dad, I have no one to look unto, and so if I die today, what is the point? We are not losing anything. But we will make sure you lose your family, Buhari you will lose your family.
“Today is the 7th day of July 2016, I promise you that Aso Rock will burn; Rochas Okorocha and all the governors in Igboland, your lives are in danger.
“Buhari has just started a fight that he can not finish, we warned him. The unarmed Biafrans you are sending your army to kill are innovative, they are intellectuals, and they are warriors. They hardly start something but when they do, they don’t go back. We are Biafrans, we are the avengers, and we will come for you. Those against Biafra freedom, wait for us.”
“I plead with Igbos that have not joined any group to please look for groups to join, Hausas and Fulanis have no place in Biafra land; wake up, we will fight to the finish.
“Destroy anything destroyable in Biafra-land, Nigeria is a zoo created by Lord Lugard. This is Niger Delta Avengers and Biafra Avengers number two. We are coming back,” he said.
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Shocking : We’re Waiting For Saudi Mercenaries – ND Avengers Tells Buhari (MUST READ)

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The Niger Delta Avengers, yesterday, said it does not care if the Federal Government hires mercenaries from Saudi Arabia or anywhere to fight them. Reacting to online reports that the federal government had concluded agreement with Saudi authorities to deploy Saudi Blackwater mercenaries to the Niger Delta region to tackle militants that had been bombing oil facilities, spokesperson of the group, self-styled Brig Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, told Saturday Vanguard that NDA was not perturbed. A staff in The Royal Embassy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Nigeria supposedly confirmed the $280 million deal, as part of the agreement in the Saudi-led Islamic coalition against terrorism to Vaxity. Anwar Eshki, a retired Major General, in the Saudi armed forces is reportedly the head of Blackwater, which undertakes such assignments for the Saudi Arabian government.
bombing Niger Delta communities or wasting $258million to hire fighters to fight the Niger Delta Avengers will not stop Niger Delta quest for self-determination.  Rather, it will aggravate and teach aggrieved youths better warfare and how to go about acquiring modern equipment to fight back tomorrow.”
The group in a joint statement by the national president and spokesperson, Austin Ozobo and Daniel Ezekiel, said: “We wonder why the government is so bent on wasting such huge amount of money to hire fighters from Saudi Arabia to fight a region that has fed the country for the past 58 years.  We are also surprised at the president’s decision to hire his Muslim allies to fight Niger Delta people.” It asked: “Why not Nigeria soldiers?  What happened to the 100 gunboats, 5 warships and 3 fighter jets earlier deployed to the creeks to fight Niger Delta Avengers, which turned into a venture of intimidating innocent people and invading communities?
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