JAMB’s computer test of horror

Stranded JAMB candidates waiting to write their exams at the WAEC office, Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja... on Saturday.

Frustration seems to be at the centre of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board organised Computer-Based Test for candidates seeking admission to the nation’s tertiary institutions this year, our correspondents report

With four more days to the end of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, information from many stakeholders still does not sound so pleasant.

Indeed, for many concerned candidates and their parents, the journey in the past one week has been one long narrative of frustrations and disappointments, sprinkled with intermittent rays of hope.

From states, such as Lagos, Rivers, Ekiti, Osun, Delta and more, many candidates wore long faces, just as some called for the cancellation of the examination.

In their thinking, the full-blown Computer-Based Test, which started last Tuesday in no fewer than 400 centres

Armed pro-Jonathan groups protest against Jega in Lagos

 

The pro-Jonathan protesters in Lagos ... on Monday
| credits: Goke Famadewa

Thousands of Odua Peoples Congress and the Coalition of Concerned Nigerians members   loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party took to three major roads in Lagos on Monday demanding the sack of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega.

The protesters, who wore T-shirts with PDP inscriptions and pictures of President Goodluck Jonathan, started gathering in front of the Federal Road Safety Commission near the old Lagos Toll Gate on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway as early as 7am.

From there, they proceeded on foot and in about 100 buses to the front of the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, causing traffic snarl on the ever busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ikorodu Road and   Funso Williams(Western) Avenue in the city.

The demonstrators, who wielded broken bottles and knives,   also displayed banners and posters calling for Jega’s removal.

They destroyed outdoor adverts of All Progressives Congress candidates on the street lights along the highways.