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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday said it has returned N5 billion excess money to the federal purse. A statement yesterday signed by the board’s head of media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the board was not interested in the monies paid by candidates registering for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) or Direct Entry (DE) university admissions, but ‘the sanctity of the examinations.’  “If money is our concern we would not be returning over N5 billion to federal government coffers. This year, we have remit back to government over N5 billion, the highest ever in the 40 years of the board. This money was saved through the transparent and judicious use of resources,” he said    He also said the board would not condone any act of multiple registrations in the ongoing registration for DE and UTME for foreign centres. “Candidates are to note that multiple registration is a serious offence in the process of obtaining the board’s applicatio

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FILMMAKER'S VIEW By Emmy Award-winning producer, Jamie Doran  I was in Moscow recently, chatting to people you might have thought would have known better. Educated folks, among them an experienced journalist. I had asked them a simple question: how did the Syrian war begin? They uniformly launched into the answer that has been peddled so often in recent times, that it has now become fact in certain circles: "It was the terrorists who started it all." The fact that ISIL in its current form didn't even exist in Syria at the time, or that al-Nusra wouldn't arrive until many months afterwards, appear to have been conveniently forgotten - not just in Moscow but in most media coverage around the world. The surprise, even shock on their faces when I pulled out my laptop and showed them the trailer for our latest film for Al Jazeera, The Boy Who Started the Syrian War, was a wonder to behold. They simply had no idea. They claimed they hadn't