January 11, 2020 – National Infinity Magazine

Why JAMB suspended NIN for UTME registration -Oloyede

January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 Jide Ige

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has explained that technical reasons and stakeholders’ concerns compelled the suspension of the use of the National Identification Number as a requirement for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry registrations. The UTME and DE registrations were scheduled to begin on Monday, January 13 and end on February 17, 2019. Announcing this at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, noted that technical issues with regards to the system of registration at the National Identification Management Commission…

Iran admits killing 176 plane crash victims in error

January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 Jide Ige

Iran has admitted it fired a missile that brought down a passenger plane shortly after it took off from its main airport on Wednesday morning, effectively backtracking on fervent denials. “A sad day. Preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by Armed Forces: Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster,” Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif said in a statement Saturday morning. “Our profound regrets, apologies and condolences to our people, to the families of all victims, and to other affected nations.” A Boeing 737-800 passenger plane operated…