How to WIN N300,000 Cash Prize By Answering Just A Few ‘Simple Questions’ Online [See Here]

Are you an undergraduate or a tertiary aspirant seeking cash grant to kick off your academic career in 2017?

Here is a great opportunity to win cash prizes online by simply using any internet enabled device to participate in an online test which has been scheduled to hold on the 15th of April. Feel free to use your mobile phones and tablets to partake in this program.

You can obtain up to N300,000 cash as over 200 people had previously benefited from this program. The second edition which would kick off later in the year would have participants win up to N500,000.

To enroll for this ongoing edition, submit your application online before the 31st of March for review and consideration.

The reward categories for this edition are outlined below:

GRANT	CUMULATIVE SCORE
N300,000	70% and above
N50,000	(65 – 69)%
N20,000	(62 – 64)%

The Live Test (online test) will consist of 30 questions from various academic spheres and there will be a grant/award presentation event for successful participants on the 28th of April.

Before you submit your application using the link we will provide in this publication, carefully note the following things about the program:

• Final year students and expatriates are not eligible to apply for this program.
• In a bid to ensure viable clarification from successful applicants, you must possess at least one of the documents stated in the registration form.
• An 8-digit AUTHENTICATION ID will be sent to all registered applicants within 24hrs of submitting an application. Please note that multiple application is ground for disqualification.
• Applications will be screened and ONLY ELIGIBLE applicants will be required to obtain a Passcode/PIN for the Live Test with N1,000 only after passing the necessary data verifications involved.
• You can partake in this program by using any internet enabled device such as mobile phones, PCs and tablets. The examination will be monitored remotely via your IP address.

• TO APPLY:
  Visit www.skusat.com/apply-now
  Eligible applicants will be prompted via SMS on the 1st of April.
  Get daily updates about the program by following www.facebook.com/SkusatNG

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‘Let’s make peace bridge between India and Pak’: 11-year-old Pakistani girl’s letter to PM Modi is going viral

Congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) historic mandate in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections, an eleven year old Pakistani school girl wrote to him saying that he should now focus towards winning more hearts of Indians and Pakistanis alike, by becoming a bridge of peace between the two nations.
In her letter, Aqeedat Naveed highlighted on the need for peace between India and Pakistan, and said that Prime Minister Modi can help speed up the process, reports DunyaNews.
“Once my father told me that winning of hearts is a marvelous job. Perhaps you have won the hearts of Indian people, therefore you won the election in UP. But I must tell you if you want to win more Indian and Pakistani hearts, you should take steps towards friendship and peace. Both countries need good relation. Let’s make a peace bridge between India and Pakistan. Let’s decide that we will not buy bullets, will buy books. We will not buy the guns, will buy the medicine for the poor people,” Aqeedat wrote in the two page letter.
She further emphasized that the choice between peace and conflict lies open for both the nations, and signed off by congratulating the Prime Minister for the UP Polls victory.
The fifth grader, who hails from Lahore, had earlier written a letter to Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj as well on the matter of peace and has also received several responses from officials in New Delhi.

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Jamb To Begin Sale Of Forms On Monday, 20th March

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB‏) has announced through its twitter handle, @JAMBHQ that the sale of forms for the 2017 UTME begins on Monday 20th March, 2017 to Wednesday 19th April,2017.

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Na Wa O!! UNICAL 30th Convocation: Best Graduating Student Got N10,000 Only

It is no longer news that the 30th Convocation Ceremony of the prestigious University of Calabar, Calabar held yesterday being 11th of March, 2017 for the graduating set of 2014/2015 Academic Session and some 2015/2016 Set.
The glamorous ceremony took place at the University Stadium with many notable dignitaries in attendance.

A total of 22 graduating Students bagged First Class honors (Highest in the history of the University, established in 1975), 2,408 graduated with Second Class Upper, 5,890, Second Class lower (Which my humble self graduated with), 2,900 will go home with Third Class while 1,000
Graduants will take home a Pass certificate (I for no collect). From various department.
Many where shocked when the ‘award price’ of N10,000 (Ten Thousand Naira) for the Overall Best Graduating Student was announced. Mr. Agala Egbe topped his mates with an outstanding CGPA of 4.89 (over 5.00) no be beans oooo if u know UNICAL.
He bagged his first class certificate from the Department of Medical Laboratory Science (MLS). He is from Abi LGA in Cross River State. For me, this is indeed a slap to hard work coming from the University Management.

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JAMB Announces Date To Start Selling Forms In 2017

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB‏) has announced through its Twitter handle, @JAMBHQ that the sale of forms for the 2017 UTME begins on Monday 20th March, 2017 and ends on Wednesday 19th April, 2017.
They made the announcement via their twitter handle. See the tweet below:

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Secondary School Closed Over Students Marriages Among Themselves In Bauchi State

The Bauchi State government has ordered the closure of one of its schools after the discovery of secretly arranged marriages among its students.
The order for the closure was contained in a statement issued by Yakubu Adamu, the Special Assistant on Communication to the state Deputy Governor and Commissioner of Education, Engineer Nuhu Gidado.
“I directed the immediate closure of the school on Friday, 10th March 2017 after being notified about the issue,” Gidado said, adding that a committee comprising all directors in the state Ministry of Education, the school authority, teachers as well as the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) of the school had been constituted to investigate the matter.
The discovery of the students’ ‘mock marriages’ was made at the Sa’adu Zungur Model School, a primary and secondary school located in Bauchi metropolis.
Some senior male and female students of the school were said by sources to have been conducting illegal marriages among themselves within the school.
Daily Trust gathered that male students usually pay token sums ranging from N500 as dowry to their female counterparts for their marriages while classmates of the ‘grooms and brides’ contribute money to purchase snacks consumed at the ceremonies.
The sources revealed that male and female students study in separate classes, and the attention of the teachers was drawn to the illegal marriages only last week.
A source said an SS two student organized a wedding ceremony between him and his girlfriend who was also a senior student, and it was during the celebration that the teachers’ attention was drawn when they heard noises which indicated a celebration and rushed to the venue to behold what was happening.
The matter was later reported to the school principal, Malam Ahmed Zailani who consulted the state Ministry of Education.

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Amazing! Checkout The Nigerian College That Produces 100 Pilots In 5 Years

The International Aviation College (IAC), Ilorin, says it produced more than 100 licenced commercial and private pilots in the last five years.
The Rector of the college, Cpt. Abdul Abdulkareem disclosed this during a media interaction on Monday in Ilorin.
Abdulkareem, who conducted journalists on tour of facilities at the institution, said that the school had come a long way and achieved so much within a short period of existence.
According to him, the products of the college are now engaged by various airline operators in the country and beyond.
The rector asserted that IAC remained the only a one stop-shop station for pilots training in the sub-Sahara Africa.
“Talking about the courses and I want to reiterate it and please quote that IAC today is the only school in Africa that has a one stop-shop station for pilots training.
“That means both fixed and rotary wing. It has been approved by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to the training for helicopter and fixed wing. We are the only one in Africa,” he said.
Abdulkareem said that the college, which flagged off in 2012, had put Kwara on the global map before the advent of cargo terminal.
He explained that the college could now boost of seven aircrafts from the four it started with some years back.
He noted that the IAC had partnered many stakeholders in the aviation sector, including Briton, Shell Nigeria, Navy Holding, Aero Contractor, to bring enabling environment into the sector.
The aviation expert claimed that the college was 100 per cent owned and controlled by the Kwara Government.
He urged well-meaning individuals to sponsor students for pilots training, noting that many politicians had done that for empowerment.

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Ha! Lecturer Slaps Unilorin SUG President For Mediating On Behalf Of Students

The drama ensued at the UNILORIN C.B.T center when a lecturer from the faculty of engineering slapped Comrade Shobowale Lukman (Eminent), the Students Union President, while he was mediating on behalf of some students who were inappropriately delayed in writing their exams.
At about 4:20pm, some students from the department of Nursing, College of health sciences who have been waiting since around 9am, approached the students union president to intercede on their behalf in a bid to write their examinations after a long wait.
The students union president, in the spirit of solidarity, proceeded to the appropriate body with the aim of dialoguing with the exam coordinators, so the 50 Nursing students write their exams to prevent them from missing the bus scheduled to take them back to their faculty.
It was in this process that the Sub-dean, faculty of engineering, Dr. Ajiboye slapped him after he politely approached and introduced himself while trying to meet with the C.B.T Secretary, Dr. Tomori.
Dr. Ajiboye then rudely shooed him off and while he (Eminent) stepped aside, to converse with his colleague, the said lecturer approached him and questioned him as to why he decided to murmur after he has spoken and he then slapped him.

This resulted in an uproar from the students and it took the quick thinking of Students Union president to calm the already angry students who were ready to cause a bigger scene at the center.
Dr. Ajiboye’s action has really violated the ethics of the school, and the situation should be looked into by the disciplinary committee, in a bid to forestall future occurrences.
While we spoke to some students, who witnessed the scene, many described it as an”aberration and an injustice” on the part of the lecturer, as that would not be the first time such act would be perpetrated by either teaching and non-teaching staffs of the school.

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No More 2nd Choice In JAMB!! See Reasons From JAMB

Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Media and Information, told Premium Times on Saturday that the choice of public universities was restricted to one but candidates can choose as many colleges of education and polytechnics as they want.
The new measure by the board means that candidates may select a public university and a private university, but not two public universities.
Mr. Benjamin said that the Board took the restrictions because candidates hardly get admissions into their second and third choice universities.
He said: “Yes we restricted the choice to one but candidates can choose as many colleges or polytechnics,”
“We discovered it was of no use choosing a university as second choice when in actual sense they can’t even accommodate their first choices,”

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JAMB Explains Why Candidates Can No Longer Apply To Two Public Universities

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed why it restricted candidates from choosing two public universities during the 2017 online registration.
Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Media and Information, told PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday that the choice of public universities was restricted to one but candidates can choose as many colleges of education and polytechnics as they want.
The new measure by the board means that candidates may select a public university and a private university, but not two public universities.
The new update was revealed by JAMB via its official twitter handle @JambHQ on Friday.
It reads: “candidates can select NCE as their choice up to three times I.e 1st choice, 2nd choice and 3rd choice.
“But they are not allowed to select two public universities as choices. If candidates select a public university as their degree awarding choices, they are allowed to select a private university as another choice.”
Mr. Benjamin told PREMIUM TIMES that the Board took the restrictions because candidates hardly get admissions into their second and third choice universities.
“Yes we restricted the choice to one but candidates can choose as many colleges or polytechnics,” he said.
“We discovered it was of no use choosing a university as second choice when in actual sense they can’t even accommodate their first choices,” the JAMB official said.
Candidates have however cried foul over this new information as they lamented that the board is indirectly enforcing the choice of private university on them.
The candidates also lamented due to the huge sum paid as school fees in private universities stating that they are not affordable by most Nigerian parents.
“The fees nko? Jamb go help the students pay the fees for the private universities? You can’t force somebody to attend private universities,” a Twitter user, Robinson said.

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Why Females Prefer Colleges Of Education & Polytechnics – Stakeholders

The desire to acquire tertiary education before marriage had made most females in Borno to prefer enrolling in Polytechnics and Colleges of Education instead of universities, some education stakeholders in the state have observed.
They said on Thursday that Polytechnics and Colleges were more convenient for females because of the shorter years of studies, thereby enabling them to complete their A-Level education before getting married.
Some of them said that it was easier for applicants to secure admissions into such institutions than Universities.
The Borno state Focal Person of N-Power, Alhaji Babazannah Abdulkarim said Colleges of Education had higher numbers of females enrollment.
He said, The girl-child has limited time. Most girls, especially in Northern Nigeria find it more convenient to go to colleges than universities because they always get married before 18 years.
“Most men do not like their women to work and women also do not like to stress themselves going to the University.”
The Borno Director of National Orientation Agency in Borno, Alhaji Yahya Imam said the orientation of women in Borno and Northern Nigeria in general with regards to pursuing higher education was not encouraging, as such they preferred the short-cut offered by polytechnics and colleges of education.
The Chairman of Borno State Joint Tertiary Education Board, Muhammad Askira said the girl-child education had not been given the attention it deserved at both the local and national levels.
Askira said some ideologists even believed it was an abomination for girls to go to school.
He said, “Some men believe that women who went to Colleges or Universities always have the self-fulfilling ego to do things for themselves without depending on their spouse.”
A student of Ramat Polytechnic, Zainab Madu said it was hard to gain admission into the university and therefore preferred college of education.
She said, “Before you gain admission into the university, you have to sit for UTME and post UME, which are difficult for some of us.
“Our parents usually ask us to produce husbands immediately after secondary school; some of us will always want to hop into any available school for fear of being forced to get married.”
The Registrar, Muhammad Goni College of Legal Islamic Studies Maiduguri, Alhaji Ahmadu Abdulfattah, said most of those seeking admission into the college right from its inception were women.
“Most women feel comfortable with NCE programme. Here we teach civil and sharia law and we still have a high number of women,” he said.

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Covenant University Becomes 1st Nigerian Varsity To Be Granted License For PMI

Covenant University and an international capacity development and consulting firm, Canada Executive Management and Professional Centre (CEMP), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a partnership that will see the University running Professional Management Courses and its students enjoying research grants from international agencies.
Speaking at the MoU signing ceremony on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at the University campus in Ota, Ogun State, the Vice-President, International Engagement, CEMP, Dr. Yomi Oyekoya, said that, the formal agreement between his organization and Covenant University entails the University starting Project Management courses in partnership with the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the United States.
The PMI, he explained, gives out a Registered Education Provider (REP) license to institutions to run Project Management courses and Covenant University would be granted a similar license very soon.
No other organization, according to Dr. Oyekoya, runs Project Management Courses like the PMI. “In Nigeria, many people travel abroad to take the courses. Some universities in Nigeria currently have Project Management Courses but the certificate is not recognized abroad. However, PMI’s certificate is recognized all over the world,” he said.
Running the Project Management Courses in Covenant University, he enthused, will draw many people, especially top executives, to the University. “No institution in Nigeria has the PMI Registered Education Provider license. Covenant University will be the first in Nigeria and third in Africa to have the license,” he added.
Expressing his happiness that Covenant University was joining the league of top universities in the world to start Project Management Certification, the CEMP representative noted that project management fits into every discipline and it’s for everybody.
Dr. Oyekoya further stated that aside the plan for Covenant University to run Project Management Courses, CEMP had in a bid to help the University achieve its goals under the Research, Citation, Innovation and Teaching (ReCiTe) Agenda, discovered the availability of a grant in the region of $5 billion, from which students of African universities, including Covenant University can benefit.
Following the brief MoU signing ceremony, which was supervised by members of the Covenant University legal team, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor AAA. Atayero, in his remarks, expressed optimism that with the University being the third in Africa to get the PMI Registered Education Provider license, it will take the institution to a new height.
“This keys into the University’s Vision of being one of the top 10 universities in the world in another five years; I pray it quickens the speed of its delivery,” said the Vice-Chancellor.
Dr. Oyekoya was accompanied to the event by CEMP’s Brand Communication Director, Dr. Kunle Hamilton; Head, International Business Research, Dr. Babajimi Hammond; Legal Adviser, Ms. Bunmi Ogunye; and Creative Manager, Mr. Owodunni Otunuga.
Other Covenant University representatives were the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Shalom Chinedu; Registrar, Mrs. Mary Aboyade; Director, Financial Services, Pastor Bayo Oladehinbo; Dean, College of Business and Social Sciences, Professor Francis Iyoha; including Directors and Heads of Departments.

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‘2017 UTME Will Be Hitch-Free’- JAMB

Mr Sunday Aladegbaye, Lagos State Coordinator of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has said that all the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) intending candidates will experience a hitch-free examination.
Aladegbaye said this on the sidelines of the Parents’ Forum organized by the Management of the King’s College on Thursday in Lagos.
According to him, there will be no compromise in the accreditation of centres to be used for this year’s UTME.
He said that measures were being taken to avoid technical hitches.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some candidates that sat for the examination in 2016 complained of technical challenges in some of the centres.
Such hitches ranged from malfunctioning of computers to poor power supply.
This resulted to moving affected candidates to other functional centres.
“We have taken time to go round designated centres in the states, in order to ascertain the level of functionality of their computers, the backups and other requirements."
“Where we find missing gap, we dropped such centres immediately and those that meet requirements, we recommend them to management."
“We will continue to insist on accreditation of well-equipped centres; no more, no less."
“This is because, as a parent myself, I will not do anything that will compromise the future of my children,’’ Aladegbaye said.
NAN learnt that the board would begin the sales of its registration documents for the UTME before the end of March.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL U.I NEWLY ADMITTED STUDENTS

This is to inform all newly and returning undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan (UI) that payment of the  school fees and accommodation Fees  for the 2016/2017 academic session has commenced.

 

UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN IMPORTANT NOTICE.

1. SCHOOL FEES PAYMENT HAS COMMENCED FOR ALL STUDENTS
2. SCHOOL FEES PAYMENT WILL CLOSE ON THE 3RD OF APRIL, 2017
3. LATE SCHOOL FEES PAYMENT WILL IMMEDIATELY COMMENCE ON THE 4TH OF APRIL, 2017. THIS WILL ATTRACT #5,000.00 NAIRA
4. HALL APPLICATION FOR BOTH FRESHERS AND FINALISTS CLOSES ON TUESDAY THE 7TH OF MARCH 2017
5. COURSE REGISTRATION CLOSES ON THE 17TH OF APRIL, 2017, THERE WILL BE NO LATE REGISTRATION AFTER IT CLOSES
6. IF YOU HAVE MADE PAYMENT OF FEES/ACCOMMODATION LEVEY AND IT DOES NOT REFLECT ON YOUR PORTAL, KINDLY QUERY REMITA ON THE HOMEPAGE OF YOUR PORTAL, THEN RE-LOGIN AFTERWARDS

HOW TO PAY FOR FEES/ACCOMMODATION

1. Log in to the portal with your username and password (matric number)
2. Click on Pay your fees
3. Select the fee item
4. Click on Remita and generate your RRR
5. Make payment with either Card, internet banking or Pay at bank option
6. NOTE: Kindly Query Remita if payment does not reflect on your portal login into your portal to see payments and retrieve receipts from faculty finance unit for more information or inquiries call OR WHATSAPP 08059755439

 

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