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A man described as a professional examination mercenary, who allegedly specialises in writing JAMB tests for multiple candidates, has been arrested in Sokoto State. Officials of the Joint Examination Matriculation Board (JAMB) told newsmen Umar Sani was arrested at about 8: 00am Saturday as he made to access a centre at the Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic to sit the examination for another of his clients. Mr Sani was identified and arrested by a JAMB monitoring team, led by Registrar Ishaq Oloyede, which has been visiting centres across the country to oversee the conduct of the ongoing 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The suspect was immediately handed over to a police team from the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau, officials said. Before he was caught Saturday morning, Mr Sani had in the past days sat for the examination for candidates Umar Abdullahi, Danladi Lawal, and Danlami Suleiman Abdullahi. JAMB uses biometric to check candi

The recent beef between Kizz Daniel and his artiste, Demmie Vee who got signed to the Fly Boy Inc management last year seems to have been sorted. Recall that the singer (Demmi Vee), who has a management deal with Fly Boy Inc (FBI), had earlier openly called out Kizz Daniel and accused him of being a traitor as well as cunningly collecting the sum of N15m from him. He has however apologised shortly after a video of him prostrating to beg Kizz Daniel surfaced online last night. See his apology below…. Alot of people complained about me joining Flyboi inc.Let me make this more clear to you all, I never sign a record label deal with Kizz Daniel but a management deal. A management deal where I can always have someone am looking up to. We needed proper management after tiff has blown. And a good team to work with..Kizz Daniel was someone I have always looked up to as my GF in the industry which made myself and my CEO decided to approach FBI for this manageme

Nigerian singer and actor,  Ikechukwu  has warned of what will happen if any official of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) ever try to harass him the way they harass other Nigerian citizens. The entertainer shared a heartbreaking video of SARS officials harassing and beating a man because he refused to let them search his phone. He went on to condemn the officers for terrorising citizens rather than protect and serve them. In his post, he threatened to disarm any SARS personnel that harasses him as he would attack back and shoot him with his own gun. Commenting on SARS brutality, Ikechukwu wrote: “When i say this i really mean it, the day these type of individuals run into me i might end up dying that day. Truth is how much humility and calm are u supposed to have? Even if we want to believe that God is using the situation to test us , will he test us to our death and demise? For what reason is such an individual wearing the uniform of one who is supposed to pr

A few days ago , the video of a police officer destroying the phone of a  Delta State University student which he reportedly bought for N250 ,000,  went viral. The officer who was angry that after serving the police force for  about 13 years, he is stiil not been able to afford such an expensive  phone, smashed the phone to the ground. According to an update by the Nigeria Police Force on Twitter, the officer has been arrested and an orderly trial has commenced. The  commissioner of Police Delta State Command has confirmed that the  police SGT reported to have harrassed and embarrassed an innocent  student is now in police custody. #AskThePolice @CovenantBuhari @MrFixNigeria @RuggedyBaba @sagalink @ConcernedNIG