UTME form is not out for 2017 - JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has not started the sale of its 2017 admission application documents, warning prospective candidates against falling victims of con-men.

Dr Fabian Benjamin, the JAMB’s Head of Media and Publicity, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by telephone on Monday that the board would adequately sensitise the public before the sale begin.

“I want the public to be patient. We are putting finishing touches to the arrangements for a hitch free outing.

“We do not want a repeat of what had been happening before and during registration this year.

“We need to ensure that prospective candidates do the right thing and get their results without problems.

“So we want to appeal to prospective candidates to be patient as we will soon begin sale of the forms,’’ Benjamin said.

He warned the general public and prospective candidates not to fall prey to the activities of fraudsters who might lure them into buying fake documents. (NAN)

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See the best of Football Awards 2016 Winners

The world’s best football players and coaches were recognised on Monday 9 January 2017 at the inaugural edition of The Best FIFA Football Awards™.
Zurich’s TPC studios hosted the awards, with the winners of each accolade decided by the global football community.

FIFA FIFAPro World11: Manuel Neuer, Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos, Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Cristiano Ronaldo

FIFA Fan Award 2016: Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool supporters

The Best FIFA Women's Coach: Silvia Neid

FIFA Fair Play Award 2016: Atletico Nacional

The Best FIFA Men's Coach: Claudio Ranieri

Outstanding Career Award: Falcao

FIFA Puskás Award: Mohd Faiz Subri

The Best FIFA Women's Player: Carli Lloyd

The Best FIFA Men's Player: Cristiano Ronaldo

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Ronaldo wins FIFA’s best player of the year award

 

Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal and Real Madrid accepts The Best FIFA Men''s Player Award from FIFA President Gianni Infantino during The Best FIFA Football Awards at TPC Studio on January 9, 2017 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

Cristiano Ronaldo won FIFA’s rebranded player of the year award on Monday, beating his old rival Lionel Messi.
Messi was pulled out of the ceremony only a few hours earlier by his club Barcelona.
The 31-year old Ronaldo was rewarded for a year in which he won the Champions League with his club Real Madrid and the Euro 2016 with Portugal.
Argentine Messi was second in the vote and Frenchman Antoine Griezmann third.
I’m very happy and I can say that 2016 was the best year of my career”, said Ronaldo as he was presented the award by FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
Messi missed the ceremony along with all other Barcelona players who had been invited.
“With the aim of prioritising preparations for Wednesday’s game against Athletic Club, FC Barcelona have decided that the players recognised in the awards will not be travelling to Switzerland for the ceremony,” said the club in a statement.
Ronaldo also won the France Football’s Ballon d’Or, the other major international award for the sport, last month.
Ronaldo also won the old FIFA award once in 2008 and also in 2013 and 2014 when it was organised jointly with France Football magazine.
Italian Claudio Ranieri won the Coach of the year award for leading outsiders Leicester City to the English Premier League title.
The FIFA Best Female Player Award went to World Cup winner and two-time Olympic winner Carli Lloyd, while the FIFA Puskas Award went to Mohd Faiz Subri, forward, Penang in the 2016 Malaysia Super League.
The FIFA Best Women’s Coach Award went to Silvia Neid, who retired after leading Germany to a first Olympic title in Rio.
Radamel Falcao was honoured with FIFA award for outstanding career, while the FIFA fan Award went to Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund fans.
NAN recalls that the two fans captured the hearts of many while singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ as one before last season’s Europa League quarter-final at a sell-out Anfield.

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Army denies alleged killing of 2,000 Igbo youths

The Nigerian Army has refuted the ‘mass killing of Igbo youths’ allegation by the Campaign for Democracy, an online publication recently.

The Deputy Director Army Public Relations of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, Col. Sagir Musa, in a statement in Awka on Sunday, described it as “an “unjustified, invidious and over flogged accusation’’.


He said the CD claimed that “no fewer than 2000 Igbo youths had been killed by the Nigerian Army under the guise of Rules of Engagement’’.

He said that other publication allegations including “Military Killed 150 Pro-Biafra Protesters’’ had also been severally thoroughly refuted in many media platforms by the Nigerian Army.

“It is the same position that this rejoinder has soundly adopted.

“For emphasis and clarity, the Nigerian Army as an accountable, morally and professionally sound organisation had variously through its Human Rights Desk at the Army Headquarters, painstakingly investigated allegations of rights violations.

“The results indicated specifically that this claim is false, malicious and should therefore be ignored for the sake of Nigeria.

“Instructively, the Nigerian Army under its constitutional authorization to aid Civil Authority and Military Aid to Civil Power must continue to act in the best interest of the nation (in collaboration with other security agencies).

“This included, de-escalating violence and checkmating security threats across the nation.

“This task must be done, in spite of the sordid propaganda and possible politicization of the issue by ill meaning Nigerians,’’ Musa said.

According to him, the relevant authorities in the South East are at liberty to set up an inquiry into the accusation to get to the roots and end of the obnoxious and unfounded claim.

“Looking at the recurrent posture of this allegation, the 82 Division Nigerian Army wishes to state that relevant authorities in the South East are at liberty to set up an inquiry into this accusation.

“This is with the view to getting to the roots and end of this obnoxious and unfounded claim,’’ he said.

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