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JAMB sends candidates’ lists to universities
By Misbahu Bashir
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board yesterday said names of candidates who qualified for 2016 admission screening exercise had been released to universities and other tertiary institutions based on individual institutions’ capacity.
The Registrar, Professor Jibu Ojerinde, said in a statement that the lists were made up of candidates who met the national cut-off point within the set criteria and was ‘not in any way an admission list’, adding that lists could only be endorsed by the board after screening.
“The public and all tertiary institutions should note that admission will only be approved by the board after appropriate screening of the candidates by the institutions,” he said.
Ojerinde said if the names were not sufficient for the need of any institution, such institution could source candidates from the ‘omnibus printout’ earlier sent to them by the board.
He said the intention of the board was to ensure that available spaces in the institutions were adequately utilized.
AUN raises Nigerian students’ scholarship slots to 67
By Chidimma C. Okeke
The American University of Nigeria, Yola, has raised the slots for Nigerian students scholarship awards across the federation to 67 for the 2016/2017 academic session.
A statement from the unvrrsity signed by the Executive Director Communication and Public Relations, Mr. Daniel Okereke, noted that the increase was a reflection of the increase in the number of enrolments into the institution following the end of insurgence.
The scholarship examination for students slated for Saturday, July 30, 2016, according to the statement, will be held in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Ibadan, Enugu and Yola. Okereke noted that 30 scholarships would be awarded to five candidates from each of the six geo-political regions of the country under the university’s regional scholarships program.
Ghanaian supporters campaign for Gbagbo’s release
From Kate Da Costa in Accra
Associates and supporters of former Ivorian leader, Laurent Gbagbo in Ghana have called for his unconditional release, following his continued detention by the International Criminal Court of justice.
Piqued by the continued detention of the former leader after his failed trial at the ICC, a group of Pan-Africanists at the weekend in Accra launched the “Free Gbagbo Campaign” to press home their demand for his release.
The campaigners, who are from different parts of Africa, had converged at the Teachers Hall in Accra, to call for his release.
Some of the speakers condemned the West for the travails of Gbagbo because of his determination to wrestle his nation’s resources from the control and manipulation of the country’s former colonial master.
A former minister in the Gbagbo government, Mr. Justin Kone, debunked allegations that the former leader foisted crisis on the nation due to his personal ambition and recounted spirited attempts he made to broker peace with his political rival, President Alassane Quattara.
Kone, a close associate of Gbagbo, recalled how the embattled former president initiated peace talks under the ECOWAS platform, but that the French government scuttled the process by orchestrating another conference in Paris, where Gbagbo was excluded from the mediation talks.
According to Kone, it was the implementation of the unpopular decision foisted by France at the Paris talks that actually triggered the mayhem in Cote d’Ivoire in 2010.
The Editor of Insight newspaper based in Accra, Mr. Kwesi Pratt JNR, described the trial of Gbagbo as an orchestration by the West calculated at gagging progressive African governments.