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Following alleged lopsidedness in the on-going registration of candidates by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB), the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) of the University of Ibadan Chapter, Dr Deji Omole has called on the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede to volitionally pen his resignation letter from office. The academic union also asked the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu to call the registrar to order to lessen the difficulty being experienced by the candidates. According to the ASUU chairman, the board had outlived its usefulness and the best thing is to scrap it and allow universities design their standard examination for their own candidates. Dr Deji noted that the fact that a mock examination was stopped due to logistic reasons underscored the point of alleged incompetence of the Registrar, noting that if candidates could not do mock how sure are they to pass the examination. He said: “Why will anybody make life difficult ...

The ongoing syringe factory in the state is targeted at manufacturing 400 million syringes yearly, The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel , says According to the Governor, ten indigenes of the state , who are graduates of engineering in different fields , had been sent to Vienna for training on how to produce syringe and other hospital consumables . Speaking during the monthly prayer meeting , themed ‘ the path to greatness ’ at the Government House Chapel recently , the governor noted that South Africa has the biggest syringe factory in Africa, with 95 million syringes a year , but that the state government had already ordered eight production lines for its new factory and the equipment were expected to arrive in the state by the second week of May. He lamented that the setback recorded in his industrialisation programme last year was a result of forex crisis , but noted that there would be more employment opportunities for the people of the state before the third quarter o...