Boko Haram: JAMB maycancel exams in Borno,other volatile states

Boko Haram: JAMB may
cancel exams in Borno,
other volatile states
The Registrar of the Joint
Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB)
, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, has
said there will be no
Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination
(UTME) in the volatile
states in northern Nigeria.
Ojerinde made the
announcement on Friday
in Abuja while speaking
with reporters at the 58th
National Council on
Education (NEC) meeting.
According to him, JAMB
will be forced to cancel the
examination if the Boko
Haram attacks on primary
and secondary schools in
Borno State continue.
"When we reviewed the
situation in volatile states,
for instance Borno, we
realised that some of the
schools are being bombed,
but our investigations
showed that only primary
schools are affected and
not secondary schools.
"The board will be left
with no option than to tell
the candidates to go
elsewhere to write the
exams if schools which
serve as centres are
attacked.''
The registrar regretted
that the development
could be quite unfortunate
for the students.
The News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) recalls that
Boko Haram had on
February 28 attacked four
primary schools in
Maiduguri, setting the
Gomari Costain Primary
School and a section of the
Maiduguri Experimental
School, Kawanar on fire.
They also set ablaze
Budum Kulo Gomna
Primiary Schools and Abba
Ganaram Primary School
also in Maiduguri.
Meanwhile, three
suspected Boko Haram
members died on Friday
after an explosion at a
bomb factory in Kaleri,
Maiduguri.
Col. Victor Ebhaleme, the
Field Commander of the
Joint Task Force (JTF) on
Operation Restore Order
(ORO), told newsmen in
Maiduguri that the
incident happened at
about 10.30 a.m.
He said residents of the
area were attracted by the
big sound in a residential
area at Kaleri and they
alerted the JTF.
"On arrival, our men
discovered mutilated
bodies of three persons
suspected to be Boko
Haram militants.
Apparently, they died
while preparing the
bombs."
Ebhaleme added that
several unexploded
Improvised Explosive
Device (IED) were also
found in the house, which
was completely destroyed
by the blast.
"Several bomb making
apparatus were also found
in the house,'' he said.