4 DIE IN GHASTLY MOTOR ACCIDENT ON UMUAHIA/PORT HARCOURT

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#PHOTOS: HEARTBREAKING

Four precious lives were lost today in a ghastly motor accident which occurred along Umuahia/Port Harcourt express way,close to Ubakala junction. The cause of the accident is still unknown as at press time

KIDNAPPERS OF EPE STUDENT BORE A HOLE ON THE SCHOOL FENCE

Kidnappers again struck at around 5:00 a.m. this morning at Igbonla Model School, Igbonla near Epe abducting six students. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni in company of top police officers in the state led a search and rescue team to the school and adjoining waterways as well as forest in search of the gun men.

Source at the scene of the incident disclosed that the kidnappers used the Imeru/Iji waterway to access the swampy forest bordering the school, bore a hole on a part of the school fence to gain entrance into the school compound.

Mr. Owoseni, who was at the school very early in the morning, appealed for calmness from parents and guardian of the kidnapped school children to enable security agencies focus on rescue operations.

The CP further added that security agencies were intensifying efforts towards ensuring safety and security of the good people of Lagos, stressing that useful information from members of the public would be invaluable to the team’s efforts.

With the CP were the Commander, Rapid Response Squad, ACP Olatunji Disu, officers from SARS and state Anti Kidnapping Squad.

AFTER 9HOURS OF HEAVY RAINFALL IN BAYELSA

 man has shared photos of the current state of his house and other houses in his area after a 9-hour rainfall today in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state. According to reports, many people have been rendered homeless due to the ravaging floods which have overtaken their homes. See pictures below;

UTME 2017 UPDATE: WHY SOME RESULTS OF SOME CANDIDATES WILL NOT BE RELEASED----REGISTRAR

Examination body, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board on Thursday states that the results of candidates identified in footages of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) to have indulged in unwholesome practices during the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) won't be released.

Registar of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, who spoke on Channels Television Sunrise Daily said the agency had been busy in the past days reviewing recorded footages of the examination across the country, and that a number of candidates had been marked out for sanction.


Oloyede, was responding to a question by one of the anchors of the programme on why some candidates were yet to receive their results despite promises by JAMB to release outcomes within 24 hours.

The registrar said, “Those who have not received (their results) are qualified not to receive for now. In all cases where there were no problems, we released results of the examination within 24 hours.

“But those who have not (received their results), they may not be culpable but we are investigating. Where we have reason to doubt anything or where we have report of anything that is not acceptable to us, we have withheld the results.

“And we will keep on releasing them as we clear them. For instance, this morning, we released another 15,000 results. But among those who sat in that centre, we have reasons, concrete evidence to say about 300 of them, their results will not be released because we know they were not in the hall where the examination took place.

“We are comparing those who sat for the examination, how long they sat in the hall, and how some of them took excuses that they were going to the toilet only to go to what they called VIP…

“All this we are now able to track. And we want to say that we will not hesitate to sanction anybody no matter how highly placed.”

Mr. Oloyede said the CCTV cameras deployed at every Computer Based Test (CBT) centres across the country helped JAMB to detect and arrest unwholesome practices.

He said some centre operators however tried to sabotage his agency’s plan to make the examination fraud-free, citing the example of a centre in Kubwa, Abuja, where operators blinded the cameras with sacks to frustrate remote detection of malpractices that happened there.

The JAMB registrar appealed to credible organisations and individuals to come forward to partner JAMB in the establishment of reputable CBT centres across the country.

“Crooks are now establishing CBT centres, and meeting our requirements only to misuse the opportunities,” he said. 

DAVIDO PROMISE TO SORT OUT THE ACCOMMODATION OF THE LITTLE BOY SINGING HIS SONG IN A VIRAL VIDEO

Video of a little boy, Utibe, singing Davido's "If" went viral 5 days ago and the person who took the video revealed that Utibe does not go to school but has to hunt snails and sell them to assist his mother who has a physical disability.


Sham Rock, who shared the photo, took pity on the boy's plight and decided to help him out. He went to visit the boy's family and discovered his mother was a single mother abandoned by her husband and, to make matters worse, she is paralysed and has 4 kids depending on her.  The good Samaritan was able to get Utibe into school today. He is now a primary 1 pupil at Government Central Primary school Ibeno, Akwa ibom state and photos of him on his first day at school were shared.

The house where Utibe lives with his mum and siblings is a ramshackle hut made of raffia palms and looked ready to fall any minute. Good news is, Sham Rock revealed that Davido has promised to sort out accommodation for Utibe and his family. The singer also acknowledged the little boy by sharing a photo of him on his Instagram and wrote:

"OBO GOT YOU FOR LIFE KID!!! NOTHING MAKES ME MORE THAT U FINALLY GET TO START SCHOOL!! 30 billion for ur account oooo!!!!  WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS!!"

FINALLY,SENATE PASSES THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BILL

The senate today passed the Petroleum Industry Bill. Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who presided over the house today, said the senate had broken the 17 years jinx that have surrounded the passage of the bill...

RESDENTS DEFY RAINFALL TO SCOPE FUEL FROM A BROKEN TANKER IN OGUN STATE

A 50,000 liter petroleum tanker fell at about 8am today while it was raining in Magboro, Ogun State. Residents defied the rainfall to scoop fuel from the tanker. See photos from the scene after the cut...