JAMB Has Finanly Extends 2018/2019 UTME Registration

he Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announces the extension of registration for 2018 UTME till midnight of Sunday, 11th February, 2018.

JAMB as a responsive organisation has taken the decision albeit with great hesitation to accommodate candidates who failed to register between the two months window period that ended at midnight of Tuesday, 6th February, 2018.

The failure of these candidates to register is unfortunate and the Board hastens to add that this culture of impunity will not be tolerated henceforth. Indeed penalty will be imposed for late registration from next session.

UTME candidates are therefore strongly advised to take advantage of the extension to register as request for further extension would not be entertained.

Registration for Direct Entry candidates however continues.

For emphasis, 2018 UTME registration now closes at midnight of Sunday, 11th February, 2018.

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Gov. Bello, When Are You Going to Sell Kogi Revenue House?

The prodigal Governor of Kogi state is at it again. After enjoying the exciting inflow of gargantuan cash from bail out, monthly allocations, IGR and Paris club refunds, the thought of going through 2018 without such inflows must have given our Governor repeated nightmares. Now, he is showing his prodigal tendencies again with the concluded plans to sell off legacy assets of the state to himself and his cronies.

For all I care, he can sell the state assembly quarters to lawmakers who have been his loyal partners in mis-governance of Kogi state. But any attempt to touch the historic Kogi Hotels that is older than him, Confluence Beach Hotel built by late Abubakar Audu, Kogi House, Confluence Stadium, Lokoja International Market and our liaison offices in Lagos and Abuja will have dire consequences.

After reading through the list of assets this prodigal governor is bent on selling to himself and his cronies, I wonder why he did not include the recently commissioned Kogi Revenue House.

Prodigal governor, when are you going to sell the Kogi Revenue House and the new SDG office complex?

You can’t move to eliminate the projects executed by your predecessors and leave your immodest projects intact. Why are you so bent on erasing the legacy of Igalas in Kogi State? You agenda is not secret and it will boomerang soon. We will resist your evil agenda traditionally and physically.

Good people of Kogi state, we must all rise up now and halt this prodigal entities from selling off our properties to themselves.

– Adamu Ojonogwa writes from Lokoja

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National Assembly Election To Hold First, Presidential Holds Last – NASS Panel

THE National Assembly elections will be conducted first in 2019, the panel of the two legislative conference committee on the amendment of the Electoral Act has endorsed.

The committee also placed the governorship and state assembly elections as the second to hold while the presidential election comes last.

The committee said that the new election sequence would ensure that every candidate is elected on his own merit without riding on another person ’ s popularity .

The House of Representatives had in its amendments to the 2010 Electoral Act included section 25 (1 ) into the Act by re- ordering the sequence of the elections to start with that of the National Assembly .

The order was followed by governorship and state assembly election before the Presidential election as against earlier sequence rolled out by the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) last year which put Presidential and National Assembly election first before that of governorship and state assembly elections .

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