The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have said that existing laws and punishments are “not strong enough and old” to deter Nigerians from certificate forgery. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede; and NYSC’s Director-General, Brigadier-General Yusha’u Ahmed, both raised the concern during a radio town hall meeting against the upsurge of certificate forgery …

The House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee probing job racketeering by Ministries, Departments and Agencies as well as mismanagement of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) on Monday queried the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Prof. Isaq Oloyede over employment of 300 staff members without public advertisement of the job vacancies. The panel chaired by …

The 19-year-old candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Mmesoma Ejikeme, accused by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) of result forgery has apologised to the examination body for her action. She read an apology letter in an investigative hearing by the House of Representatives Committee Ad hoc Committee to probe the matter headed by Hon. Sada …

Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has offered a scholarship to Miss Nkechinyere Umeh, who emerged best performing candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations. Soludo said the gesture followed the recent JAMB declaration of Umeh from Anambra State as the highest scorer with a cumulative mark of 360 in the examination. The governor congratulated the remarkable student for …

In 1999, a handsome young man contested a House of Representatives election in his constituency. He did not want to stop there; he also wanted to be the Speaker when he got to the House. Young Salisu Buhari knew that a beautiful university degree would spice up his CV. He had none but believed he could acquire one. “A lot …

I’m not sure what breaks the heart more: her insistence on her innocence or the prospects of a future that now hangs in the balance. For a young adult with a promising future, the emerging facts only suggest one thing: it doesn’t rain, it pours. Mmesoma Ejikeme was one of the numerous students of Anglican Girls Secondary School (AGSS), Nnewi, …

The Anambra State government has faulted the position of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in the way it has handled the development concerning the University and Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result presented by Mmesoma Ejikeme. In a statement on Wednesday, the state Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu said that investigation was still ongoing on what transpired about …

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Tuesday, said the Board had concluded investigations on the case of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused of fraudulently inflating her 2023 UTME score. In a transcript from Windhoek, Namibia, Oloyede said: “The truth is that JAMB has concluded the investigation …

The Head of Corporate Communications, Innoson Group, Mr. Cornel Osigwe has called for an investigation into the allegations of certificate forgery against Mmesoma Ejikeme who paraded herself as the top scorer of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). In a post via his official Twitter handle, @cornelosigwe, Osigwe said: “The girl I met doesn’t have the brain and capacity …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday said it would withdraw the result of a certain Ejikeme Mmesoma for manually inflating her result and announcing herself as the top scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). According to a statement by the Board, Ejikeme allegedly used her manually inflated score to attract a N3 million scholarship …