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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released 4,536 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results which were earlier withheld for allegations of multiple infractions. Igbere TV reports that over 1.8million candidates had sat for the unified examination between April 11 and April 18, but only 1,792,000 results were released on May 11. On Friday, May 31, however, the examination body said it had cleared 4,536 out of 4,760 withheld results. JAMB said the release followed the decision of a committee set up to examine the multiple facial identities. The board said that the facial match recognition was carried out by its specialised software and Information Technology experts. In a statement made available to Igbere TV by JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, he added that the Nigerian Navy Secondary School centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State, had been suspended for “acts not acceptable by the board.” Full Statement, “Following th...

An agripreneur  is an entrepreneur who basically focuses on agricultural products and services. They are a new breed of entrepreneurs that transform their Passion for agriculture into business. They focus on the marketing and distribution of farm outputs. Most people normally associate the word agripreneur with farming but not all agripreneurs are farmers. Some successful agripreneurs do not even have farms yet they earn a fortune . Why? Its because they have identified that there are several forms of opportunities in the field that are not limited to tilling the earth, and loading it with seeds; they have discovered the art of value addition, processing, etc as other viable means of being agriculturists. They are good at identifying these opportunities, they are diligent, resilient, hard working, and they are risk takers; they are agripreneurs. Seventy percent of employment in Africa comes from agriculture, so you can argue that, in Africa, agriculture and economy are synony...