LAUTECH Direct Entry Post D.E Screening for 2013/2014 Postponed!

This is to inform all Direct Entry Applicants who have chosen LAUTECH as first and/or second choice of institution in the JAMB application that the Direct Entry Screening Exercise slated for Tuesday July 23, 2013 has been postponed indefinitely.

You are advised to Watch out for the new date of the Screening Exercise by checking on here or the school website.

Lautech management regret any inconvenience caused by the postponement.

Best Regards.

Important Notice to all 2012/2013 Pre-degree students at Lautech

This is to inform All 2012/2013 Pre-degree Students that they should log into their Pre-degree portal accounts at www.pds.lautech.edu.ng/portal and supply their JAMB Information.

This information is needed for the on going 2013/2014 admission into 100 Level.

Any student who fails to comply with this directive does so at his/her own risk.

Best Regards.

UNIBEN Post UTME Result is Out for 2013/2014!

This is to inform all 2013/2014 prospective students of the University of Benin, UNIBEN that the result of their post UTME screening test is out online in the university kofa website.

In a message disclosing the release of this result in the university website, they wrote and I quote...

"PUTME Applicants, please login using your sent id and password to check your results.. All the best...".

How to check UNIBEN Post UTME result
1. Visit the university kofa website athttps://uniben.waeup.org/login.
2. Login using the details you created during post UTME registration.
3. Access your result and print it out.

Do not forget to share your result with other students here at Myschool.com.ng, this will help you people rate your performance and possibly get an idea of the cut-off marks.

Good luck.

OAU Students' Union on the Verge of Restoration

The students union transition committee (SUTC) has been working earnestly with the university management to see the timely restoration of a virile, responsible and responsive students’ union.

The professor Bamitale Omole led administration has approved the time-table of our dear students’ union election. Details Below; 

JULY/AUGUST
- Faculty Congresses to select/ nominate 2 Representatives (1 as member electoral commission and 1 as member electoral petition committee)

AUGUST
-Orientation on workshop for members of electoral and electoral petition committees. -Nominations into electoral posts-electoral committees
-Division of student affairs meets member of electoral commission and electoral petition committees.

AUGUST
-Electoral guidelines for the contestants and voters Voters Education
-Time table for elections

SEPTEMBER
-Preparations for elections: Students Tutorials lists, list of hall residents
-Screening of contestants, manifestos, debates, etc

SEPTEMBER
-Elections: Hall executive committee, students representative council, central executive committee

SEPTEMBER
- 3-day leadership retreat

OCTOBER
- Swearing- in -ceremony

The biggest question and fear of great Ife students now is that can they have an INDEPENDENT and RELIABLE Students' Union Government as of old?

They have seen SUG of other schools mutilated by the school management when proscribed only to enable them to dictate to the newly elected leaders. 

I hope the DSA of UNILAG will follow the same process because like ASUU fighting for lecturers, we Akokites also need a unanimous voice 'SUG'

ASUU STRIKE: Nigerian varsities may remain shut for a long time to come — Prof Iyayi

PROF. FESTUS IYAYI is a former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In this interview, he explains why university teachers nationwide are on  strike; saying the action is to compel the Federal Government to implement the agreement it reached with ASUU on funding of universities. Iyayi, currently Head of Dept, Business Administration, University of Benin, insists that  the union members are prepared to stay at home for the next three to five years until the right thing is done.  Excerpts:

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE, BENIN

ASUU has gone back to the trenches with the Federal Government. Why are you on strike?
The short answer is this: Government believes that Nigeria should continue to be not just a second rate country but a third rate country because the quality of  development, the kind of society you have depend on the kind of education that the people have and the quality of education that exists in the country.

 In 2009, ASUU reached an agreement with government on how to rehabilitate and revitalize the universities. That agreement was a product of three years of negotiation, from 2006 to 2009, and government agreed that it will provide funding for universities to bring them to a level that we can begin to produce graduates that will be recognized worldwide, and our universities can also be classified and rated among the best in the world. People keep talking about universities rating, but no Nigerian university features among the first 1,000 in the world because of the issue of lack of facilities.

So, from 2009 to 2012, ASUU waited for the Federal Government to implement that agreement and what government did was to believe and present the argument that what ASUU was looking for was money, and so, they implemented part of the salary component; they did not implement the agreement on funding. As academics, if you pay us N10million a month and we do not have the tools to work with, that money is worthless because we want to be able to conduct research, teach students the latest that is available in the world of knowledge. Those tools were not available and are still not available. So, in 2011, precisely in December, ASUU went on strike to force government to implement the funding part of that agreement.

What did the government do? They apprehended the strike in January 2012 and the Secretary to the Federal Government invited the leadership of ASUU for a meeting in his office. We went there, discussed with them on the basis of which on 24 January, 2012, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government under the title, “MEETING OF THE SECRETARY OF THE GOVERNEMNT OF THE FEDERATION WITH THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES “and signed by Prof. Nicholas A. Damachi, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education on behalf of the Federal Government. The most important of the items signed was 3.0, that is, “FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR UNIVERSITIES”. And this is what the Federal Government said it would do: “Government reaffirms its commitment to the revitalization of Nigerian universities through budgetary and non- budgetary sources of funds; government will immediately stimulate the process with the sum of N100billion and will beef it up to a yearly sum of N400billion in the next three years”.

 As we speak now, not a Kobo, not an iota of intervention has taken place in the universities. Yet, government itself, in the various studies it has done, said  it recognizes the pathetic state of the universities. In order to implement this agreement, government first gave a reason saying, ‘oh, for us to apply the funds, let us first of all identify the areas of priorities to which the funds will be applied’. Government also said, ‘we are not going to give the money to the universities, what we are going to do is to identify the projects, we will them call on government agencies such as the CBN, PTDF, ETF to deliver the projects to the universities that would then be estimated’. So the money is not coming to the universities, government will do the costing and get people to come and do all those things such as the rehabilitation of the laboratories, classrooms and a variety of other things.

Prof. Fetus Iyayi

Needs assessment committee

Now what should be those things: Government set up a committee called the NEEDS ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE and it went round the universities and what it found was shocking. First, it found that the students – teachers ratio was 1-400 on the average instead of being 1-40. It found out that the classrooms were grossly inadequate and could accommodate only about 30 percent of the number of students that needed to enter those classrooms; they went round and found students standing in their lecture theatres with other students writing on their backs; they found lectures going on under trees in some of the universities; they went to laboratories where they found people using kerosene stoves instead of bushing burners to conduct experiments; they found specimens being kept in pure water bottles instead of the appropriate places where such specimens should be kept. They found chemistry labs without water; they found people doing examinations called theory of practicals and not the practicals and you will imagine what the practical ought to be. And when the report was eventually presented to President Goodluck Jonathan at the Federal Executive Council, we understand that Jonathan said that he was embarrassed and did not know that things were all that bad.

No intervention

It was on that basis that they said that this money should be spent. As we speak, the money has not been provided, no intervention has taken place and the academics are tired. We negotiated for three years, 2006-2009, we went on strike in December, 2011 and government apprehended that strike; we signed an MoU in January 2012, between then and now, nothing happened. That is why we are on strike. We are saying, ‘look, rehabilitate the universities’. As a reporter, you can go round our classrooms and you will see what our classrooms are like. In this era, it is the quality of knowledge that you acquire that will determine the position you occupy in any part of the world. We did this and government did not do anything. A professor came from Bayelsa State recently to the University of Benin, looking for journals. We went to the library because we have an e-library and he could not do anything there because there was no light for two days in the library. If you go round here now, lecturers  have generators in their offices to be able to work, every department has two or three generators to be able to do their work. Is that what a university should be like? If you go to the students’ hostels, they in a sorry state, they live 12 in a room; they are like piggery; they now have what they called short puts, they excrete in polythene bags and throw them through the windows into the fields because there are no toilets. If you come into this building (faculty building), there are no toilets and, if walk round, you will find faeces sometimes in the classrooms because students have no place to use. And it is like that in all other universities.

Enough is enough

Academic staff has said enough is enough, we cannot continue to work under these conditions, especially when government gave commitment in 2012 that this matter would be addressed but up till now nothing had happened. We had several meetings between 2012 and now and they will say ‘next week this one will happen; in two weeks time that one will happen, give us one month, this one will happen’, nothing has  happened. And when students leave here, they apply for progammes in the United Kingdom, United States and other countries for their master degrees, PhD or other postgraduate programmes and they are told that they cannot be admitted because their degrees are suspect. Shell here in Nigeria spent millions of dollars re-training graduates, people who made First Class and, when they test them, they found out that they have problems. How can you take an engineer who has not conducted an experiment, all he did is the theory of practical? He does not know how the equipment works? If you want a properly educated student population, you have to provide the facilities. That is what ASUU is on strike. What government has done in the past is to say that we are on strike because of money, now they don’t have that excuse.

It is true that part of the agreement we have with the government also talked about academic allowances, but academics are saying that we are not interested in that; we are saying that government should rehabilitate facilities and once they are rehabilitated and they are up to standard, we will come back to work. If you go to our classrooms, we use chalk boards, the situation of  the 1960s but people are using multi-media facilities, mark boards where you can download information. That is not available here and government is not interested in that. No country developed without a sound educational system and the foundation is not the primary school incidentally, it is at the university level because it is the university that trains other levels. For instance, if you want to teach in primary school, you need people who attended the Colleges of Education; if you want to be teacher at the Colleges of Education, you must have a degree from the university; so, the university provides the manpower for other levels of education and that is why you must concentrate efforts on the university education. If you don’t do that, other levels of education will suffer and that is what has been happening in Nigeria.

Against this backdrop, of your complaints more private universities are being approved by government. Will this help to solve the problem?

Even the National Universities Commission (NUC), which is licensing private universities, has now drawn attention to the crisis of quality in many of these private universities. You know what government does: We have refineries in Port-Harcourt and Warri; I was just talking with some people recently and they said, oh, Port-Harcourt refinery is in a state where it can refine whatever amount of crude oil sent to it; its plants are all now working,’ but, as at today, government has not send crude oil to it and they cannot process anything because they want to import. Nigeria is the only OPEC member country that sells crude oil to its refineries at the international price? Does that work? It doesn’t work, but they use international price to sell crude oil to refineries, to make it impossible for the refineries to process crude and then they go to Spain and other countries to import refined products.

So, what is happening is that government wants to kill the public universities just as it has killed its own enterprises so that it can invite people to come and buy over the public universities? Unfortunately, it will not work because universities are not like enterprises. In the UK, most of the universities there are public owned; in the US, most of the universities are state owned; the one you hear about, HARVARD, is a private one, but most of the universities in the world are owned by government because education is a social service; the revenue and tax collected by government comes from the people, the commonwealth, that is the fund that is used in funding education. And what the government is doing is to under-fund public universities, give them a bad name and provide an excuse to license private universities many of which borrow lecturers from public sector universities, many of which do not have the equipment which public universities ought to have. And many of the private universities focus on the social sciences, law and arts; they do not go into engineering, medicine or sciences because you need a lot of capital outlay, you need to spend a lot of money building laboratories.

I went to Oxford University last year and they showed me a laboratory that was built last year, a huge building where people from different parts of the world went there to conduct experiments. It cost billions of pounds and no private sector person will like to invest such money because the returns on  investment cannot be recouped. So, private sector universities are gimmicks by government to say that they are better than the public sector universities, but then, how many people are there how much fees do they pay and how many people in Nigeria can pay the sum of N350,000 and above paid in private universities? Those universities are not meant for the children of ordinary  Nigerians and development has to be about the ordinary people, it cannot be about the rich. So, there is no way, not in this century, not the next or in a life time that private universities will become more important than public universities.

Prof. Iyayi

So what is The Way Forward?

The way forward is that the ruling elite in Nigeria must be sure of what that want. We have an example; many years ago, Ghanaians were here; they flooded our universities; when the Ghanaians rulers saw what was happening, they took a step back and said, lets us change direction’. They closed down the universities for three years or so, rehabilitated all the facilities in the universities and brought the students and the lecturers back. Now, the CBN Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi disclosed that Nigerians spent about N62billion paying school fees for 75,000 Nigerian students in Ghanaian universities.

Our people are in South Africa paying fees there, but who those going there; they are the children of the rich. Ghanaians are in Ghana universities but they are not paying what Nigerians are paying there. So, the way forward is that government makes up its mind that Nigerians must have a place under the sun and that place under the sun can only be guaranteed with a sound university system. It must make up its mind; is it to close down the university system for three years or so, do what should be done and then invite students and lecturers back? For instance, in the University of Benin, you don’t have a foreign student and if you go to other universities in Nigeria, I don’t think there are foreign students.

When I came to the University of Benin, I was interviewed by Prof. Smith, a Briton who was the Dean at the time and many people from different parts of the world were here as teachers and students. But, right now, they are not in Nigeria; instead, Nigerians are everywhere. That shows that the system has collapsed. When we went to the National Assembly, Sen. Uche Chukwumerije and his colleagues told us that they were on the knees begging us to recall the students because they are on the streets posing dangers and problems, and we said, it is better for them to be on the streets than on the campus of universities learning ignorance. You cannot teach ignorance to people or half knowledge to the people because they will be more dangerous to the society.

‘Not asking for money for ourselves’

If you have a doctor that is not well trained, and you say ‘go and remove an appendix’, and he goes to remove your heart because he doesn’t know where the appendix is; it is better not to have doctors than the one who will go and remove your heart than the appendix. That is what the Nigerian government wants us to do and the academics in universities are saying no, for once, let us do the right thing; we are prepared to stay at home for between three and five years until these problems are resolved. We are not asking for money, facilities must be provided to make the universities truly what they ought to be. In terms of how to solve the problems in the universities, when the financial crisis broke out in 2007 and banks declared that they were in trouble,  government brought out N3trillion to bail out the banks. First, they gave the banks N239billion, another N620billion and N1.725trillion making a total of N3trillion.

Then the aviation sector said that it was in distress, they gave the sector, N500billion and they gave even NOLLYWOOD billions of Naira. These sectors are important, but they are not as important as the fundamental which is the  education sector. If you can give the banks N3trillion and all the universities are asking for is about N1.5trillion, the same way in which they sourced the money which they gave to the banks which they are now saying that they should not pay back, they should be able to do more for education. So, nobody should come to us and say that government has no money.

If they can bail the banks with N3trillion, banks owned by the private sector, they cannot tell us they cannot fund the education sector because the World Bank told them that Africans do not need higher education, that  what Africans need is middle-level technical  education; that is what the Okonjo-Iwealas and Goodluck Jonathan are for. So, let them do what they did in the case of the banks to education and if they do that, the problems will be solved.

Romany Malco Pens ‘Message to Trayvon Sympathizers’

*Romany Malco, who reprises his role as Zeke in the recently wrapped “Think Like a Man, Too,” weighed into the Trayvon Martin topic from a different angle.

In a blog on The Huffington Post, the actor pointed out the role of mainstream news, pop culture and economics in this story steamrolling over more prevalent black on black shooting crimes that are largely uncovered by the press.

He wrote:
I haven’t touched on the Trayvon Martin issue because race matters in this country are the paralysis of the American people. To constructively discuss Trayvon would require empathy, introspection and an understanding of America’s social and economic history. This is why the open forums we have seen thus far seem to fuel more ignorance and bias than reasonable debate.

To be brutally honest, the only reason people are even aware of Trayvon Martin is because it became a topic within mainstream news and pop culture. Meaning: News directors saw it as a profitable, sensational story. Hundreds of blacks die annually in South Side Chicago without even a blurb. Trayvon isn’t in the mainstream news for any reason other than ratings and profit. The news coverage on the Zimmerman case almost implies that the killing of this young black man is somehow an anomaly and I resent that.

In this country, if it isn’t streamlined through mainstream media and pop culture, it doesn’t seem to warrant national debate. Our “government” continues to wreak havoc on our civil liberties and there is little to no protest from the black community because of media diversion tactics that keep such pertinent issues out of mainstream media. But if Jay-Z or Rihanna were to make mention of it, we’d suddenly be jolted out of our sugar comas and protesting on freeways.

My point being, people are up in arms about Trayvon based on regurgitated pundits and manipulated facts aired to elicit emotion while fueling America’s anger and division. That’s how you boost ratings. No different from Piers Morgan’s desperate rant over gun control when he knew his ratings were in the dumps. And from where I stand, anyone who still relies on corporate-owned media pundits to support an argument isn’t equipped to offer worthwhile solutions.

People are using Trayvon Martin’s death as an excuse to project their own deep-seated issues with racism and will not be capable of intelligent, empathetic debate until they’ve cooled down and afforded themselves an education.

Addressing Trayvon without first addressing the absence of critical thinking in our schools, the lack of introspection, the reasons for our low tolerance and our country’s skewed value system does nothing more than create a sounding board for the ignorant. So rather than facilitate more racism outcry, I’d like to address young black people specifically.

I believe we lost that trial for Trayvon long before he was killed. Trayvon was doomed the moment ignorance became synonymous with young black America . We lost that case by using media outlets (music, movies, social media, etc.) as vehicles to perpetuate the same negative images and social issues that destroyed the black community in the first place. When we went on record glorifying violent crime and when we voted for a president we never thought to hold accountable. When we signed on to do reality shows that fed into the media’s stereotypes of black men, we ingrained an image of Trayvon Martin so overwhelming that who he actually may have been didn’t matter anymore.

Don’t you find it peculiar that the same media outlets who have worked so diligently to galvanize the negative stigmas of black men in America are now airing open debates on improving the image of black males in American media? Do you honestly think CNN is using their competitive time slots for philanthropy?

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” – Rahm Emanuel

If we really wanted to ensure Trayvon Martin’s killing was not in vain, we’d stop perpetuating negative images that are now synonymous with black men in America. We’d stop rapping about selling drugs and killing niggas. The next time we saw a man beating a woman, we’d call for help or break it up, but one thing we would not do is stand by with our cellphones out — yelling WORLDSTAR! Instead of rewarding kids for memorization, we’d reward them for independent and critical thinking.

We’d spend less time subconsciously repeating lyrics about death and murder and more time understanding why we are so willing to twerk to songs that bemean women and boast of having things we cannot afford. We’d set examples of self-love for our youth by honoring our own hair, skin and eye color. We’d stop spending money on designer gear that we should be spending on our physical and psychological health. We’d seek information outside the corporate owned-media that manipulates us. We’d stop letting television babysit our kids and we’d quit regurgitating pundits we haven’t come up with on our own.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance. So before going back to popping molly and getting Turnt Up, I urge you to consider the implications of your actions. Your child’s life may depend on it.

JOBBERMAN CREATES RECRUITMENT PORTAL FOR UNILAG STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

 

Jobberman.com in collaboration with the Counselling Unit of the Students’ Affairs Division, University of Lagos has created a recruitment portal: www.unilag.jobberman.com to provide information on job and internship opportunities for students (undergraduate & post-graduate) and alumni of the University.

 

Interested students (undergraduate & post-graduate) and alumni of the University are advised to register and up-load their curriculum vitae (CV) on the Portal. 

 

Please note that only registered individuals on the portal will get information on job and internship vacancies advertised by Jobberman.com.

ESUT Post UTME 2013/2014 Application Website still open, exam to start July 24

Website for application for the 2013/2014 Post UTME screening exercise of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT is now open.

This year, the university (ESUT) has invited application from all prospective candidates who made the school either first or second choice in JAMB, and who obtained a minimum of 180 score line in the 2013 UTME to apply.

Application for the exam will be done online at www.esutportal.net after candidates must have obtained the registration pin in from designated bank(s).

How to apply

Application form is sold in branches of Spring Bank in Enugu and Also inside the school campus at the rate of N2,200 (including bank charges).

Candidates are to proceed online to register at www.esutportal.net after candidates must have obtained the registration pin in from designated selling points.

Examination/screening will hold between July 24, 25 and 26 in the school campus as indicated on candidates' registration print out.

YABATECH Post UTME Registration To Start July 18th, 2013

 YABATECH is set to commence the long-awaited post UTME registration exercise by July 18, 2013.

In their statement, on a note left for intending post UTME students on their website, YABATECH wrote and we quote... "PLEASE CHECK BACK BY 8.00AM 18/07/2013 FOR POST-UTME APPLICATION... Do not patronize touts".

I therefore urge all 2013/2014 prospective students of the Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH to expect a publication tomorrow, July 18th to guide them on the registration exercise.

Short story: The sex life of a Lagos mad woman

Photo credit: CNN

by ‘Seun Salami

Only Rosco’s thing is sweeter than that Indomie and egg in this life, you have to believe me. 

This place is not my house, but I live here.
It is not the type of place you want to call your home. Sometimes, I wonder how I have managed to call it mine since my uncle died, that should be five years ago, or six or seven.
It is a very smelly place, that’s what people who pass make you believe, because they are always covering their noses.
 But me and the grown men who smoke Indian hemp every morning, every afternoon and every night in that corner, always wonder why they cover their noses.
This place is very cold, because there are no doors, no windows, nothing. But there is a roof. That’s where the cars pass; plenty during the day and very few at night. The other ones who don’t pass my roof usually pass my frontage and I love watching them, especially those ones that are as big as houses and you can’t see the people inside because the glass is always black like charcoal.
I see a lot of things every day. A lot of things. I will tell you some and then one that happened today. The one that made me swear that I was not mad and I can never be because I couldn’t have done what the woman did. 

It is sad that only one man here knows that I’m not really mad. That shameless one with his beards and hair dreadlocked like my pubic hair. Rosco. He hisses and shakes his head at me during the day like all the others in his gang. But I and he know that I am not mad. Because at night, very late in the night, when others have gone, he will call me into his danfo bus, and I will do to him what that stupid igbo he smokes cannot do to him.

I do not let him know I look forward to it. How can I? Then he will stop squeezing that N100 note into my left hand every time he gets up after he has pounded me to his heart’s content. He must think he has just raped a helpless mad woman as he zips his pants. Fool. He does not have any idea how my legs shake uncontrollable and how my bowels tremble and how the hair on my body stand still when he is inside me. Only that he is always too quick. I don’t know why, but I can’t complain. I have to wait till the next day or the next.

I’ll continue to let him believe he is raping me but deep inside me I know I will die if he does not call me like that for three days. I don’t ever want to return to those days of touching myself. How can I even think about it? Evil thoughts go back to your sender, please. Back to what I was saying…the things I see here every day. In the morning, I wake up with noise. Loud noise. 

“Ojuelegba – stadium – barracks!” repeated four times in a roll so quickly; if you don’t live here you will think it is a call to war. I wonder where that is; a place whose name sounds like sport and war. Other times it is, “Itire – Lawanson” that I can hear louder.
Where do I even know? I’ve not left my house for many happy-new-years now. This is where I shout it every time it is time to shout it.

Then Rosco will wake up and start the engine of his bus. He will switch it off again and then go across the road and come back with water in a bucket. My eyes always go with him because I don’t want any careless early morning driver to knock him down. When he gets back to the danfo, he will go close to one of the tyres and bring out that his big thing to urinate. That is when I always wish he would call me, but never, the fool will never even speak to me, he will just shake his head like the others when they look at me. I have to wait till it’s very dark.

Then he will remove his clothes and leave his shorts on, pouring water on himself with either a bowl or his hands.  When it is time to chafe just below his waist, he will keep his hands in there for too long. This is why I know Rosco is a fool. Can’t he just remove the shorts and wash properly? Who else is watching?

When he finally leaves with his noisy danfo, I’ll turn my attention to the road. If I feel hungry, I will get up, re-arrange my house and make sure no one stole anything while I was asleep and then walk across the road to buy what I’ll eat. 

Oh how I miss the woman who sells that early morning akara. She doesn’t come again these days because of Fashola’s people. So now I go to the aboki who prepares tea and indomie noodles and egg. Only Rosco’s thing is sweeter than that Indomie and egg in this life, you have to believe me. But the fool will not use his plate to serve me like other people, so I have to always remember to bring my own plate. He says I’m mad, yet, he knows how to collect my money and give me change. He doesn’t toy with my change any more since the day he saw me bite someone with these my teeth for calling me “Reveren sistaa”. 

I hate that name. I hear those are the people who never do the thing me and Rosco do. They must really think I am one. Fools.

It may be better to ask me what I have not seen here than to ask me to start telling you the things that I see every day. I have seen rich men carry prostitutes away at night; I have seen a corpse dropped from one of those charcoal cars one night long time ago. I have also witnessed many fights between different gangs like Rosco’s group where they use machetes on themselves and left blood everywhere. I have also seen many okada people die like chicken from too much speed, especially at that junction over there. Only last week, a speeding trailer climbed one okada rider’s head spilling its content to the ground. I couldn’t eat for days after that. Let us not talk about it, please.

Yes, I promised to tell you about the incident that made me know that I am not mad, right? Actually that day I was just sitting on my own and I noticed a woman selling Coke, Pepsi and LaCasera that all these people buy and drink and then shine their teeth gleefully after only a gulp.

Suddenly she brought down the big container of drinks from her head by herself as if to sell to someone. Then she began to go round the container. Then she began to dance. Then I stood up. I wanted to understand what was happening. Then she started singing, and clapping like the people in those churches where they wear only white. 

Then she untied her wrapper and used it to cover her wares. That’s when other people began to notice what I had been watching since. Then she removed her buba, revealing rounded breasts that made me jealous, only protected by a very fine bra with some shine-shine on it. 

“O ti n ya were o!” a bus conductor yelled as his bus passed and people stretched their necks to catch a glimpse, saying the woman was experiencing the beginning of madness.
Then the men who were walking began to stop and look. I’m sure they were waiting for her to remove the bra. I took my eyes away.

I can’t worry about her too much, because I myself I have a problem growing in my stomach, I feel like vomiting, and I am very dizzy and I am very worried. 

‘Seun Salami is a writer and editor. He is the author of ‘The son of your father’s concubine’, a collection of short stories. You can follow him on twitter @SeunWrites

ILARO'S POST UTME INFO

Clink on the link below to view the information from the website.
After that, you get a pop-up message asking you if you want to download the file, click oto download and view the info.

http://www.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/web/images/pdf/20132014%20Admissions%20Advertisement.pdf

Benue State University (BSU): Application for Remedial Programme 2013/2014

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission into the Preliminary Science programme, Benue State University, Makurdi for the 2013/2014 Session.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Those seeking admission into the Preliminary Science Programme (hereinafter called pre-science) must fulfill the following conditions:

1. Candidates should posses NECO/WAEC Certificate or GCE ordinary level or its equivalent, with Credit Level Passes in at least four subjects at not more than two sittings, two of which must be in the Core Science subjects (Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology).
2. Please note that, May/June 2013 examination results are valid for admission but November 2013/2014 examination results are not valid for admission in the 2013/2014 academic year.
3. Candidates who do not meet the above conditions need not apply.

Method of Application
Application for the Pre-Science programme is on-line and the following steps must be strictly followed for a successful application.

Visit the BSU Website on www.bsum.edu.ng

Under the academic matters section, select “Application forms” and then click on “Remedial”, you will be asked to select the preferred Remedial Course. There are two forms here, namely “Pre-application form” and “Continue application”.

Fill the pre-application form and print the payment invoice. Take the invoice to the bank and make your payment of non-refundable application fee of N5,000.00

Get back to the website and log on to through the same link and continue with the application through the “Continue Application” menu.

Note: Sale of forms shall commence from 17th June and end of 28th September, 2013. Forms submitted after the closing date will not be treated.

To Apply, please click here

Gombe State University (GOMSU) screening for 2013/2014 starts July 27th

Gombe state university (GSU) is calling on all her 2013/2014 prospective candidates to apply for her forthcoming Post UTME screening holding on July 27th, 2013.

To be eligible, candidates must have chosen GSU as either 1st, and/or 2nd choice in JAMB with a minimum score of 180.

Registration for the screening starts 22nd to 25th of July, 2013 at the convocation square of the university candidates are to pay the sum of 2,200 naira for the registration.

The screening date is on the 27 of July 2013

OAU Post UTME Result for 2013/2014 Released: How To Check It

Be informed that the Obefemi Awolowo University (OAU) have released the result of their post UTME screening test held on the 13th of July, 2013.

In her effort to stick to promise made, the school made her result available for checking online in less than 24hrs after the screening.

To access the results, candidates MUST purchase the OAU post UTME result checkers card and proceed online to check at http://eportal.oauife.edu.ng/postume.php.

Reminder On Nekede Poly: Sale of Post UTME Forms Ends Today July 15, 2013

The sale of post UTME forms for registration into the 2013/2014 admission exercise of the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo state will end today, July 15.

Eligible candidates for the post-UTME/HND Screening Test were directed to obtain forms from any branch of the prescribed banks nationwide at a fee of N1,000.00 (One thousand naira) only.

THE BANKS ARE:

Zenith Bank Plc – Account No: 10106639999
United Bank for Africa Plc – Account No: 1915498529
Fidelity Bank Plc – Account No: 4110009105

The forms should be completed online at www.federalpolynekede.net not later than today, 15th July, 2013.

We therefore remind all candidates who are yet to obtain the form or complete their online registration that today is the last day. As a matter of fact the website closes tonight by 12 mid night.

Pass this information around.

Reminder: UNIJOS Post UTME Starts Today, July 15

2013/2014 Post UTME screening exercise for admission into the University of Jos kicked-off this morning.

The online application for first and second choice candidates which started some weeks ago ended yesterday, giving way for the examination that is to run from today July 15 through 19th July.

Schedules for the examintion

Monday, 15th & Tuesday, 16th July, 2013 - For candidates who applied for courses in the Faculties of Medical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Natural Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Education Sciences & Technology/Rehabilitation Sciences. The following subjects will be examined: English Language, Mathematics, Biology, Physics & Chemistry.

Wednesday, 17th & Thursday, 18th July, 2013 - For candidates who applied for courses in the Faculties of: Social Sciences, Management Sciences & Education Social Sciences/Management Sciences. The following subjects will be examined: English Language, Mathematics, Economics & Government.

Friday, 19th & Saturday, 20th July, 2013 - For candidates who applied for courses in the Faculties of Law, Arts & Education Arts. The following subjects will be examined: English Language, History & Government.

The results of the Post-UTME screening will be available on the University of Jos website: www.unijos.edu.ng on Wednesday 24th July, 2013.

We wish all candidates success in their examination.

YABATECH Post UTME 2013/2014 Registration Now Commenced!

YABATECH 2013 Post UTME registration has commenced, therefore, candidates who have chosen Yaba College of Technology as First Choice and Second Choice MOST PREFERRED and First Choice MORE PREFERRED are invited for YABATECH’s Post UTME.

YABATECH Post UTME Cut off Mark
Apart from choosing YABATECH in the 2013 UTME, Candidates must also have scored 150 and above in the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

YABATECH Post UTME Date and Schedule
Candidates should hereby note that the 2013 Post UTME screening exercise will hold as scheduled below:

Paper Pencil Test (PPT)
Tuesday, 3rd and Wednesday, 4th September 2013:

Computer Based Test (CBT)
Thursday 5th – Saturday, 7th September 2013:

All candidates should visit the YABATECH’s website at www.yabatech.edu.ng for registration and other details.

Post UTME Application Closing Date
Registration for the Post UTME Screening of YABATECH will close on 19th August, 2013.

Method of Application
All candidates should visit the website of Yaba College of Technology at www.yabatech.edu.ng Click on “Post UTME Application” and complete the basic details form.

Applications are to pay One Thousand, Five Hundred Naira (N1,500.00) for the Post UTME and result checking on-line using ATM Card by clicking on PAY NOW (Please note that transaction charges is N300.00) Kindly the on-line application form after payment Click on “SUBMIT” conclude the application process.

Applicants without an ATM Card should approach any bank for reloadable card and load the required amount to enable them pay on-line.

Candidates are advised to supply correct data on the Portal as they will be responsible for any personal errors made during registration. Details of the Post UTME Screening are available on the Portal.

Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja Admission 2013/2014 Now On

Registration for admission into ND and HND programmes of the Kogi State Polytechnic is on for 2013/2014 session.

Candidates who made the school either 1st and or 2nd choice in JAMB and scored up to 150 can apply.

Kindly note that there is no payment or sale of forms as the polytechnic has made it free. Applications are accepted online at http://www.kogistatepoly.edu.ng/Eventa.aspx?srn=29.

MOUA Umudike Post UTME Registration Ends Today July 15, 2013

Registration for 2013/2014 Post UTME screening of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike ends today, July 15, 2013.

The examination of candidates for entrance into the 2013/2013 session therefore holds between Thursday 18th, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th July, 2013.

NOTE:, full report on this application is at http://myschool.com.ng/moua/news/19600/mouau-post-utme-screening-exercise-for-2013-2014-admission-details-in-full.html.

Candidates for morning session should report at 7:30am while those for afternoon session should report at 12 noon on each day of the exercise with the following:

i. Printout of the completed online registration form.
ii. A copy of the passport size photograph uploaded with candidate’s full name and JAMB Registration number written at the back.
iii. Printout of the JAMB Result. If you don't have the original,
iv. Writing Materials (e.g. Pen, HB Pencil, Eraser).

Good luck to candidates.

ACEONDO Post-UTME Screening 2013/2014 - Registration, Venue

The 2013 Post-UTME Screening Exercise of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo will take place on Saturday, 3rd August, 2013 by 10.00 a.m. in various centres in the College. All Candidates are expected to be seated latest by 9.00 a.m.

Eligibility

Candidates who sat for 2013/2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and originally chose Adeyemi College of Education, (A.C.E.) Ondo, as their First/Second choice or intend to change their First choice to the College, with a minimum UTME score of 200 for Degree and 160 for NCE, are required to purchase ACE Post-UTME Screening forms and participate in the mandatory screening exercise.

This covers both DEGREE and NCE Candidates. All Candidates will be required to upload their digital passport photographs on-line. Registration Fee All candidates should register on-line on www.aceondo-ng.com.

To register, each candidate will purchase a scratch card available at the following banks for a sum of Two Thousand Naira (N2, 000.00) excluding other charges: (i) First Bank Plc
(ii) United Bank of Africa Plc
(iii) Skye Bank Plc

The branches of these banks are available on the website. Requirements for Admittance into Screening Venue
(i) UTME Result Slip. If you don't have this document
(ii) Downloaded Application Form
(iii) Writing materials - HB Pencils and erasers

Caution The following items are not allowed into the screening venue: Mathematical tables, Calculators, Biros, Pens and Cell phones.

Candidates who arrive at the venue of screening after 30 minutes of the commencement of the screening will not be allowed to take the test.

Candidates who make false declaration of UTME score and Ordinary level grades: SSCE, GCE, NABTEB or NCE as well as State of Origin shall not be considered for admission.

Opening and Closing of Website Access to the College website for normal registration for the screening exercise will end at midnight of Friday, 2nd August, 2013.

Bingham University Post UTME Application & Admission 2013/2014

Application for admission into Bingham University is still available for candidates who obtained a minimum of 180 in JAMB and wish to student in the school, whether or not they made it a choice in JAMB.

Although the first screening has been done last month (June), the second screening has been scheduled to hold as follows.

Bingham University Screening dates
July 25th: Humanities, Management and Social Sciences.
July 26th: Medical and Science Students.

For more on this and application, download the full advert and act accordingly at http://www.binghamuni.edu.ng/BHUAdmissionAdvert.pdf.

LET'S FACE IT: ENGLISH IS A STUPID LANGUAGE

We sometimes take English for granted. But if we examine it's paradoxes we would find that quicksand takes you down slowly, box rings are square and guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Similarly, there is no egg in eggplant, no ham in hambuger and neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England, French fries were not invented in France. 

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing. If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth? If the teacher taught, why didn't the preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetable, what does a humanitarian eat? 

Why do people recite a recital? Park on drive ways and drive on park ways? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can 'burn up' as it ' burns down' and in which you can ' fill in a form' by 'filling it out'. 

And a bell is only heard once it goes! English was invented by people, not computers, and I reflects the creativity of the Human race ( which of course is not a race at all). That is why when the stars are out they are invisible. And why is it that when I wind up my watch it starts but if I wind up the story it ends? And more...

Some food for ' thought'. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? Why is the person who invest all your money called a 'broker'? Why is the person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist? Why are ' a wise man' and a 'wise guy ' opposites? 

Why do 'overlook' and 'oversee' mean opposite things? If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible? Why isn't 11 pronounced 'onety one'?

LETTER FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO HIS SON'S TEACHER

* He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel, there is a hero; that for every selfish politician, there is a dedicated leader:

* Teach him that for every enemy there is a friend

* Teach him that a dollar earned is of far more value than five found.

* Teach him to learn to lose and also to enjoy winning.

* Steer him away from envy, If you can.

* Teach him the secret of quiet laughter.

* Teach him the wonder of books, but also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and flowers on a green hillside.

* In school teach him it is far more honourable to fail than to cheat.

* Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him they are wrong.

* Teach him to be gentle with gentle people, and tough with the tough.

* Try to give him strength not to follow the crowd when everyone is getting on the band wagon.

* Teach him to listen to all men, but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen truth and take only the good that comes through.

* Teach him how to laugh when he is sad; teach him there is no shame in tears.

* Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob; and to stand and fight if he thinks he is right.

* Teach him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel.

* Let him have the courage to be impatient, let him have the patience to be brave.

* Teach him always to have sublime faith in the creator and faith in himself too, because then he will always have faith in mankind.

* This is a big order, but please see what you can do;
He is such a fine little fellow, my son!



Abraham Lincoln

10 Little Habits That Can Destroy Your BRAIN

It’s good if you re-examine the little habits that you think is simple but have negative impact on your brain, those habits are:

1. Skipping Breakfast -
Many people underestimate the breakfast. And do not consume anything in the morning and caused the decline in blood sugar levels. This resulted in a lack of input of nutrients to the brain which finally ended in the decline of the brain. The best breakfast in the morning is not a heavy foods such as special burger, but a glass of water and a glass of fresh fruit juice is enough. Compact and useful for the body!

2. Gluttony -
Too much to eat can harden the blood vessel of the brain that usually leads to the decline of mental powers. So eat a normal portion. Familiarize yourself with how to help stop eating before you’re stuffed.

3. Smoking -
If the cigarette has a lot of bad effects, everyone would already know. And there’s one more bad effects of cigarettes that were uncovered here.
Smoking was very frightening effect on the brain! Imagine, the human brain can gradually shrink and eventually loses its functions as diligent suck it smoky. No doubt the old time when even young ones, we are prone to Alzheimer (Alzheimer is a dementia disease).

4. Consuming Too Much Sugar -
Too much sugar intake will prevent the absorption of protein and nutrients that makes the body get malnutrition and disrupted brain development. Therefore, reduce the consumption of your favorite sweets.

5. Air Pollution -
The brain is part of the body absorbs the most air. Too long in the environment by polluting the air makes the brain works inefficiently.

6. Sleep Deprivation -
Sleep gives the brain a chance to rest. Often neglect to sleep makes the brain cells to die from exhaustion. But do not get too much sleep because it can make you become lazy and slow. Should sleep 6-8 hours a day for healthy and fit.

7. Covering one’s head during sleep -
Sleeping with the head covered is a bad habit that is very dangerous because the carbon dioxide produced during sleep makes the brain concentrated with pollutant. Do not be surprised if over time the brain becomes damaged.

8. Thinking Too Hard -
When sick Working hard or studying when the body condition is not fit also makes the ineffectiveness of the brain. Already know You are not healthy, you should rest and not impose your brain.

9. Lack of Brain Stimulation -
Thinking is the best way to train the brain works.Less thought would make the brain shrink and ultimately does not work optimally. Diligent reading, listening to music and playing (chess, Scrabble, etc.) will make your brain used to think actively and creatively.

10. Rarely Talking -
Intellectual conversations usually take a good effect on the brain. So do not be too proud to be quiet. Quality Chatting is very good for your health.

By--Toqeer Ahmad

Vacancy for ‘serious minded’ graduates at The PUNCH

Blessing Olisa

Punch Nigeria Limited, publishers of The PUNCH, Saturday PUNCH and Sunday PUNCH titles has vacancies for a few ‘serious minded’ graduates who will be absorbed into its workforce as correspondents on completion of a three month training.

According to an advert in the paper on Monday, July 8, 2013, applicants (preferably between 22 and 26 years) should have a minimum of a first degree (Second class upper division) in Sciences, Humanities, Mass Communication or any of the Social Sciences.

He or she must have a flair for writing. Candidates with second class lower division who demonstrate a high skill in writing may be considered.

All candidates must have completed the one-year National Youth Service Scheme.

An attractive allowance will be paid during the period of training and on completion of training, successful candidates will receive full salary and allowances in line with the company’s salary scale.

All applications which must include curriculum vitae, copy of birth certificate and photocopies of relevant credentials, should be forwarded within two (2) weeks of this publication ( Monday, July 8) to:
email: punchnigltd@punchng.com

OR
Manager, Editorial Training & Language Control,
Punch Nigeria Limited,
Punch Place, Kilometre 14,
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway,
Ogun State.
P.M.B. 21204, IKEJA POST OFFICE, LAGOS STATE.

ASUU’s Demands

In this country, lecturing remains one of the most lucrative jobs, aside from the fact that most lecturers teach in other schools, thereby neglecting their duty in their main institution.

I can’t even remember the last time a Nigerian professor carried out a successful research. The constant clamour for wage increment and 70 years retirement age for professors lack moral justification and a reflection of greed and insensitivity to the plight of the younger generation.

I cannot understand the justification for 70 years retirement, when even at 65 years, many of them are managing one health condition or another. Yet, we are crying about unemployment among qualified unemployed youths in the country.

When last did the Academic Staff Union of Universities members truly embark on a strike due to the poor infrastructure in the universities, poor funding among others? Instead, they will rather use all that as a cover-up to gain public sympathy to actualize their unending demand for more pay.

Once the demand for salary is met, they forget other issues. Yet, these are the same people that enjoyed free education and scholarships during the early days of the nation. The zeal with which lecturers fight for their selfish interest, if that same zeal is used to pursue the development of the educational sector, I am sure by now our institutions would be competing with the best in the world.

This, unfortunately, is not the case because of incessant strikes by the lecturers. The cumulative effect of all this is that Nigerian universities yearly produce half-baked and unemployable graduates.

FASANMI Kayode,

Business Area, Lagere,

Ile Ife, Osun State.

NASU Urges FG To Retain NECO, UTME

Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has advised Federal Government to retain the central admission system for Nigerian universities and jettison the Oronsaye report that recommended the scrapping of National Examination Council, NECO.

Rising from its meeting held in Lokoja, Kogi State, the union’s WAEC, libraries and other trade groups’ branch described the proposals contained in the Steve Oronsaye committee report.

NASU described the report, which recommended the scrapping of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and the merging of NECO with West African Examination Council, WAEC, as “retrogressive, unproductive and one that will worsen the education sector in the country.”

The union said: “It will increase the level of unemployment, the ills in the society and also defeat the essence of national cohesion.”

NASU’s views were contained in a resolution signed by its Deputy President, Mr. Michael Adegoke and Secretary, Prince Damola Adelekun.

It expressed concern about insecurity in the country and called on all tiers of government to “intensify action in protecting the lives and property of the citizenry.”

However, labour relations appear strained between the union and WAEC as the union accused the management of WAEC of high-handedness.

Making reference to the queries issued to three principal officer of the union in WAEC, the union said: “The cordial industrial relationship that has been in existence between the Union and WAEC is being threatened by this repressive, choice of monologue and oppressive posture of WAEC management.”

It advised the management of WAEC to “as a matter of urgency, start dialogue with the union over the demands of its members.

“The union will not compromise the rights of its members at any time.”

.ASUP wants FG, N-Assembly to review PolyAct

By PETER OKUTU & OKONKWO EZE

THE Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana, chapter of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, yesterday, called on both the Federal Government and National Assembly to review the Act establishing federal polytechnics as a way of proffering solution to the over three months strike embarked upon by polytechnics in the country.

Chairman of ASUP, Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana, Comrade Edmund Onyeneho, who made the call at a briefing in Afikpo, in solidarity with ASUP, blamed the current impasse on Federal Government’s insensitivity to the plight of polytechnic lecturers and students.

He said his chapter was fully committed to the struggle by the National body of ASUP to liberate the polytechnic system from the current neglect which had culminated in the disparity and discrimination of products of the polytechnic system by the society

He said: “ASUP demands the speedy review of the Federal Polytechnics Act. The National Assembly should do more than lip service in this regard. There is now an urgent need to review this Act and reposition polytechnics to effectively fulfil the goals of technological growth and development in Nigeria.

For avoidance of doubt, no demand of ASUP in the present situation is selfish. ASUP is only asking for government’s attention to the debilitating state of polytechnics and also to treat the products of the system not as second rate graduates.

“In other words, ASUP is asking government to do the right things by relating to the products of the polytechnic system on the basis of their quality and not the environment that produced them.

“It is worrisome that the Polytechnics have no Commission like the Universities and Colleges of Education in Nigeria. More insulting in this regard is that even Nomadic Education in Nigeria has a Commission.

“The Government should stop this brazen discrimination by urgently establishing a Commission for polytechnics and monothecnics in Nigeria

”Most polytechnics in Nigeria today, more especially state-owned polytechnics have unqualified and incompetent Rectors”

Meanwhile, members of ASUP in the Polytechnic were seen around the institution and within Afikpo town carrying placards with inscriptions such as “We want a revised scheme of service for Polytechnics” Release of White paper on visitation” “Polytechnic Act… overdue” “NBTE rejected yes! to NPC” in support of the ongoing strike embarked upon by the union.

Return To Classroom, FG Begs ASUU

The Federal Government, yesterday, begged the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to return to classrooms, as the union insisted that the strike would continue unless agreements between it and government were implemented.

The strike which began last week, entered its second week yesterday, even as the union and Education Ministry officials appear before the National Assembly today.

Minister of Education, Professor Ruqquayat Rufa’i, who made the appeal, said the union should call off its strike in the interest of students.

Rufa’i said: “We are going to meet with ASUU and all those that are concerned at the Senate today. We are going to appear before the Senate and the House Committee on Education and we are pleading with ASUU to go back to classroom and let our children go back to school.”

Speaking to Vanguard, ASUU President, Dr Isa Nasir Fagge Isa, however, said the strike would continue until the Federal Government faithfully implemented agreement in the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU reached between both parties.

Strike to continue unless…?

He said: “On whether the strike will continue or be called off is dependent on government’s decision. If the government does what is right, I assure you that we will call off the strike immediately, we will look at what government has and we will review the situation.

“We don’t have to inform anybody that we are taking an action when it becomes clear to us that what we are doing cannot make any headway. We looked at all the options available before embarking on the strike.

“I must remind you that a strike is a fundamental right of a worker, if it becomes clear to a worker that the dialogue with his employer is becoming the dialogue of the deaf and dump, the worker has the right to withdraw his services, that is a fundamental right, it is enshrined in the ILO conventions and it is part of the right of Nigerian citizens.

“We have realized that each time we reached an agreement with the government, government finds it difficult to implement the provisions of the agreement and that is the reason our members advised that we just go back to the trenches.

“You should ask the government, out of the nine provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding we had how many have been implemented?

“Out of the provisions, government had been able to implement two which is the “review of the retirement age of academics on the professional cadre from 65 to 70 years and the reinstatement of the governing council of universities”.

“It will be recalled that government without notice dissolved the governing board of universities, and we took it up that, the government action will not favour the university system.

“Of all the problems identified in the Need Assessment report, how many have been implemented? Our universities are still the way they are, we don’t want to continue deceiving ourselves. We expect that dialogue should produce results, we have been dialoguing for one and half years and we are tired of doing that, we want actions”, he insisted.

“What we need to do is to ensure that we implement the recommendations of that report, but sadly, we have had an agreement with the government in 2009 on four issues which include: Funding, University autonomy and Academic freedom and then conditions of service and other matters but four years after, the provisions of the agreement have not been implemented.

Delta State Polytechnic Otefe/Oghara Post UTME & Admissions 2013/2014

This is to inform students who choose Delta state Polytechnic Oghara/Otefe as 1st or 2nd choice in this year 2013 UTME that the post utme form is out.

Candidates are advised to go to the school main gate to get the school account number and pay in the sum of #2000 thereafter proceed to the school admin with the following:-

REQUIREMENTS

O'level result, Jamb result, Certificate of Origin, Birth certificate and 2 recent passports. Candidates will be told what to do next once your papers are taken. 

FUTA/FAMU collaborations for undergraduate and graduate degrees

The Federal University of Technology, Akure signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), Tallahassee, Florida (USA) in February, 2013.

The primary aim of the MoU is to develop academic and research cooperative efforts between the two institutions through which staff and students will enjoy opportunities to enhance their teaching, research and learning activities. 

The MoU also contains exchange programmes on short, medium and long-term basis as a means of promoting scientific and scholarly research output that will enhance FUTA’s global rating and boost graduate enrolment at FAMU. 

ANSU Post-UTME 2013/2014 Registration for 1st Choice - Dates, Venues and Timetable

Anambra State University shall conduct her first choice 2013 Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination Screening tests for candidates who chose the University as their first choice and scored 180 and above in the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by JAMB.

The screening tests shall hold at both Uli and Igbariam Campuses respectively on Saturday 13th July, 2013 for candidates who scored 180 and above.

METHOD OF REGISTRATION: Candidates are required to register on-line on payment of one thousand naira (N1,000.00) screening test fee, two thousand seven hundred naira (N2,700.00) processing fee and Bank charges and one thousand two hundred naira (N1,200) for accessing of result, totaling four thousand, nine hundred naira (N4,900.00) only.

Candidates are required to pay to any branch of these Banks: Ecobank, Fidelity Bank and Zenith Bank. When you arrive at the bank, please ask to pay for ANSU post-UTME.

Access pin codes for authorized login into the University website (www.ansu.edu.ng) will be issued to Candidates following payment at the branches of any of the banks listed above. Candidates are to upload their recent passport photographs while registering on-line. Candidates will also be able to check their results on the website. Candidates whose photograph are not scanned on their registration forms may not be allowed to write the screening test.

The window for Online Registration for the screening tests ends on Monday mid-night 11th July, 2013.

Candidates are required to bring along their;
- 2013 UTME result slip 
- three copies of scanned Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination screening registration slip
- Passport Photograph
- HB Pencil and Eraser.

Handsets and other electronic appliances are not allowed during the screening tests. Please contact the following GSM numbers: 07033865888, 08024564004, 07030072425 if you encounter any login problem.

Screening Exam Timetable

The details are as follows:

ULI CAMPUS: 
Saturday, 13th July, 2013
MORNING: (8.00am - 12.00 noon)
Faculties of Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Basic Medical Sciences
Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering
Elect/Elect Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Architecture
Environmental Management
Urban and Regional Planning Anatomy
Medicine and Surgery

AFTERNOON: (12-00noon – 2.00pm)
Faculties of Science and Education
Geology
Industrial Physics
Physics
Biochemistry
Biological Science Microbiology
Pure and Industrial Chemistry
Integrated Science Education
Technology Education
Education Foundation
Health & Physical Education
Arts and Social Education
Vocational Education
Performing Arts Education
Science Education
Computer Science Education


IGBARIAM CAMPUS: 
Saturday, 13th July 2013
MORNING: (8.00am – 12.00noon)
Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences
Public Administration
English 
Igbo Language
Religion and Society
Philosophy 
Psychology
Sociology 
Music

AFTERNOON: (12.00noon – 2.00pm)
Faculties of Agriculture, Law and Management Sciences
Agricultural Economics and Extension
Crop Science and Horticulture
Soil Science
Animal Science
Law
Business Administration
Banking and Finance
Marketing
Accountancy 
Entrepreneurship Studies
Capital Market Studies