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While some youths sweat and rack their brains for answers to questions at the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination, others have perfected the art of getting cheap grades through some websites which obtain questions before the start of exams. An investigation by PUNCH Metro revealed this on Tuesday. Our correspondent had pretended to be a candidate sitting for the WASSCE being administered by the West African Examination Council. He subscribed for answers to Commerce (Objective and Theory) from five of the result-peddling websites – naijaclass.com, examcrown.com, examsort.com, waecexpo.com and guruslodge.com. While naijaclass, examcrown, examsort and waecexpo demanded N400 MTN recharge cards to send a link to the answers of the exam and N800 for direct answers to phones, guruslodge demanded N800 to send the answers directly to candidates’ phones. Candidates were, however, urged on the websites to make subscriptions for all the papers and pay into certain acco

​ Meek Mill Finally Released From Prison Meek Mill‘s legal team appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to get him released on bail after two attempts to do so failed without any positive result. He got out of prison at approximately 5 pm ET. He issued the following statement: “I’d like to thank God, my family, my friends, my attorneys, my team at Roc Nation including JAY-Z, Desiree Perez, my good friend Michael Rubin, my fans, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and all my public advocates for their love, support and encouragement during this difficult time. “While the past five months have been a nightmare, the prayers, visits, calls, letters and rallies have helped me stay positive.” “To the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, I’m grateful for your commitment to justice – not only for my case, but for others that have been wrongfully jailed due to police misconduct. Although I’m blessed to have the resources to fight this unjust situation, I understand that many people of

​ It was earlier reported that Mavin Records singer, Korede Bello graduated from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism with a distinction and an award. This story was attacked by his critics who said he bought the result. The singer has now responded to his critics, saying his result was earned not bought. Korede Bello  was said to have completed his course at  NIJ  with a distinction and an award as the best student in Editorial Writing for the 2017 graduating class. This story evoked reactions from people who doubted the possibility of a pop star excelling as a scholar. It was said that Korede Bello must have fed the right mouths to get such result. However, the singer has reacted to his critics via an Instagram post. In his post, he stated that he worked hard to prove that  “impossible is a myth’;  you can be Talented and Distinguished; Famous and Dignified; Celebrated and Educated ; that you can be a MEGA SUPER STAR with a MEGA SUPER VISION.” See his post below. https://www.i