Nigeria, Cameroun plan joint action against fake drugs, others

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IN furtherance of regional efforts to check fake and substandard drugs, Nigeria and Cameroun have signed a cooperation agreement. Both countries signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) Wednesday that involves Nigeria providing some technical capacity to Cameroun’s anti-counterfeiting war, including training of the neighbouring country’s team and sharing Nigeria’s experiences and technological capacity with them.

The pact, officials of both countries say, is to enhance cooperation between both countries and to reinforce the application of standard and the respect of specification for all products, which come to Nigeria from Cameroun and those that go to Cameroun from Nigeria.

N’Assembly tells FCDA to stay planned demolition of 37 estates

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The National Assembly Joint Committees on Federal Capital Territory has appealed to the Federal Capital Development Authority to stop the planned demolition of the 37 estates marked for the exercise.
The joint committee made the appeal at an interactive session with officials of the FCDA, Abuja Municipal Area Council and the developers.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Smart Adeyemi (PDP-Kogi), said that the committee would meet with the owners of the estates to determine how they obtained documents for the lands they had built on, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

JAMB introduces three options for 2013 UTME

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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced three options for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates.

Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, Registrar of JAMB, said this in Bwari, Abuja, on Wednesday when the House of Representatives Committee on Education visited him on an

oversight function.

Ojerinde listed the options as Paper and Pencil Testing (PPT), Dibu Based Test, where questions would be presented on computers and answers would be on paper and Computer Based Testing (CBT) where both questions and answers would be done on computer.

Ojerinde stated that candidates were at liberty to choose one of the three options in the 2013 UTME.

The registrar said that the most advantageous part of the CBT was that candidates would get their scores few minutes after writing the examination on their GSM cell phones.

“The internet age has come to stay with us hence as actors in the new age, you cannot afford to stay on the fence, you must be prepared to join the train or else you are left behind,” Dibu said.

He urged candidates to study hard for the 2013 UTME, adding that consistent hard work was the panacea to success in any examination.

Earlier, the Chairman of the House Committee on Education, Ms. Rose Oko, said the members were on a visit to the board because of the importance of education to the society.

“The examination process is very key and strategic in education as well as the sanctity of the examination,” she stressed.

Oko commended the board for its quick release of the 2012 UTME results and urged it to sustain the tempo.

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