Visualize a prison cell! You may not have been a guest there or entered one before; but just visualize an 8 x 8 feet room with no proper ventilation; no bed; no chairs; maybe a two-foot wide slab, like a ledge, fixed to the walls of the room at a height of 25inches. What passes for ventilation is no more than a 2 x 2 widow with bars, no glass or wood covering – just five or six bars.

With the setting up of a committee to handle amnesty for Boko Haram members and payment of compensation to their victims and the sect members rejecting the offer without looking back, there is suspicion that the government may have an interest other than merely seeking for elusive peace in the north. Others believe the government is merely scratching the symptoms of the Boko Haram sect rather than delving into what brought it into existence.

The National Examinations Council (NECO) was established in April 1999 by Federal Government in line with decisions reached at the 49th meeting of the National Council on Education. This was in response to the national outcry for another public examination body indigenous to the country.

Initially, Nigerian universities, indeed tertiary institutions were conducting entrance
examinations for candidates seeking admission until 1978 when the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was established by Decree (Act) which subsequently was amended in 1989 and 1993.

The proposed scrapping of National Examinations Council, NECO, National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, make Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME the only entrance examination into higher institutions had since been generating uproar