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No extension of UTME registration – Oloyede
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, on Friday said there would not be an extension of time for the registration for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The one-month registration window for the UTME ends on February 14 and Oloyede, who spoke during an inspection tour of some JAMB computer-based centres in Osogbo, Osun State, said the inspection was to ensure that there was no extortion of the clients.
Some parents in some of the centres visited had sought an extension of time for the registration, saying challenges posed by the redesign of naira notes which had caused a scarcity of cash, had prevented them from purchasing the personal identification number for their wards.
But the JAMB boss said, “I go round the country to monitor the registration exercise and particularly call the attention of those committing infractions; we receive reports about what is going on in the state.
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Polls: Presidency backing Atiku — Wike
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike on Friday maintained his claim that a cabal in the presidency is backing Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for this month’s presidential election.
Wike at Ibaka Town, Okrika Island for a PDP campaign rally for Okrika Local Government Area of Rivere state also faulted the chaotic naira currency change as anti-people and needs President Muhammadu Buhari’s reconsideration on the policy implementation.
He argued that Atiku and supporters’ recent boast that they do not need the G-5 governors to win election was informed by the assurance of victory a cabal in the presidency has given the PDP presidential candidate.
According to him, “They (Atiku and supporters) have been given assurance, but this election is not going to be based on that cabal assurance. It is on the people’s assurance.
“Whether you like it or not, you must need Rivers state. If you don’t need Rivers State you must fail. If you say you don’t want us, you’ll fail. There is no two ways about it.”
Emefiele to Nigerians: Be ready to queue to get naira notes
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele has said Nigerians should be ready to queue to access the new naira notes at the banks and the ATMs.
Emefiele, spoke at a news conference on the new naira notes, on Friday, in Lagos in reaction to the protests on the difficulty citizens were facing in accessing the new notes.
He said he has already told the banks to set up tents and chairs and give people numbers as part of the queue system for people wishing to access their money.
”I understand the agitation and I’m begging in God’s name, we on our knees begging people to please show understanding. They should be calm.
”In our meetings with the banks, we have told them to set up tents and chairs, give people numbers, which I’m sure some people will say it is old fashioned.
“But at this time that we’re trying to get the currency in circulation amongst everybody, people have to have numbers and they come in under a queueing arrangement that when you come in you get served, if it finishes, just be patient.
“By tomorrow, when you come back, they will start from where they stopped, you will not be cheated.
“Let’s just be calm and adopt a good queueing system, the assurance we give is that it will eventually go round.
“Eventually the limits will be raised and eventually the limits will be removed and people will be able to conduct their business transactions in a way that it has always been in the past,” Emefiele said.
BVAS on trial as INEC conducts mock accreditation nationwide
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has said the mock accreditation of voters expected to take place across 436 polling units nationwide was principally aimed at test running the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS.
The trial mock will set the ground for hitch-free conduct of the February 25 and March 11 elections, according to Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, INEC Information and Voter Education Committee.
He said polling units in urban, the semi-urban and some rural areas were selected to make the exercise inclusive.
This, he said, was because INEC will also want to test the efficacy of some of the networks in those areas for the upload of results from these polling units.
Okoye, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday noted that technology will play an important role in the 2023 election.
He added that the polling units for the mock accreditation therefore were carefully selected to test the efficacy of the BVAS.
Makinde suspends campaign activities over fuel, Naira crisis
Governor Seyi Makinde has suspended his campaign activities until further notice over unending fuel and new naira-note crisis in the state.
Makinde, whose campaign trail had visited some parts of the state, announced the suspension of his campaign activities at the flag off of the Omi-Adio-Ido Road on Friday.
This is contained in a statement by Dr Wasiu Olatubosun, the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism.
The governor said that the suspension was in solidarity with the people over the harrowing experiences in recent times over unending fuel and new naira-note crisis in the state.
He directed that all campaign activities be suspended, noting that the people’s suffering was too much.
According to him, the decision was taken because he was elected to protect the interests and well beings of the citizens of the state.
New naira notes: Emefiele sad over hiccups in supply
Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele yesterday accused some bank executives of sabotaging the efforts of the apex bank on the supply of new naira notes thereby creating scarcity of the new notes. Addressing a press conference yesterday, Emefiele said some of the unscrupulous bank officials who were involved in the sale of the new notes have been arrested by security agents and will face trial.
According to him, “as the new deadline approaches, please permit me to express our sadness over the unscrupulous and unpatriotic conduct of some of our colleagues in the banking industry, whose greed and malevolence are sabotaging the CBN’s efforts. I assure you all that the enforcement agencies are on the trail of these unpatriotic colleagues and their collaborators.
“A few of them involved in the sale of the new currency have been arrested by EFCC, ICPC and indeed the DSS; and let me assure all Nigerians that these unscrupulous persons shall face the full wrath of the law. On our part , let me assure all that the CBN possesses the capacity, manpower, and equipment and grit to produce and circulate the new notes and are doing all in our power to ease the inconvenience on all Nigerians, particularly the vulnerable Nigerians.
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