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No candidate qualified for university admission from four Federal Government colleges in the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination where Abia State topped the performance register, CHARLES ABAH writes

Details of the May/June 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination emerged on Thursday with states in the South-East, again, leading in the performance chart of candidates who obtained credits in at least five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

Abia State topped the chart with 33, 762 of its 52, 801 candidates.

This came as no candidate obtained five credits and above, including English and Mathematics from four Federal Government colleges.

The schools are the Federal Government Girls’ College, Bajoga, Gombe State; FGGC, Bauchi; FGGC Gboko, and the Federal Science and Technical College, Kafanchan.

To secure university admission in the country, a candidate must obtain credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.

Anambra State came second with 28, 379 out of 46, 385 candidates. While Abia State scored 63.94 per cent, Anambra got 61.18 per cent out of 100 per cent.

Edo State took the third position with 38, 052 of its 62, 327 candidates getting five credits and above. It had 61.05 per cent. Rivers and Imo states came fourth and fifth respectively.

In the 2014 May/June WASSCE rankings, Anambra State led the pack, while Abia State came second.

However, with 4.37 per cent, Yobe State came last on the 2015 rankings list with only 646 candidates obtaining five credits and above including English and Mathematics. Fourteen thousand, seven hundred and eight-four pupils, comprising 10, 807 males and 3,977 females, sat for the examination in the state.

Aside from Yobe State, seven other northern states occupied the rear positions in the rankings involving the 36 states and Abuja. They are Zamfara (36th), Jigawa (35th), Gombe (34th), Katsina (33rd), Kebbi (32nd) Bauchi (31st) and Sokoto (30th).

Lagos with 68, 173 out of 141, 963 candidates that sat for the examination placed sixth on the rankings. In fact, 32, 595 males and 35, 578 females obtained the required benchmark for university admission.

The statistics obtained exclusively by our correspondent on Thursday also revealed that Osun and Oyo states placed 29th and 26th respectively. While 8,801 candidates out of 48,818 obtained the basic entry requirement for university admission in Osun, Oyo State recorded only 21.03 per cent success in the examination.

Of the 78,896 candidates Oyo State presented, only 16,588 of them obtained five credits and above including English and Mathematics.

The breakdown, according to a WAEC source, is the consolidated results approved by the council following its National Examinations Committee meeting held in November.

One million five hundred and ninety thousand, two hundred and eighty-four candidates sat for the examination in which only 562, 413 candidates obtained credits in five subjects and above including English Language and Mathematics.

In other words, 1,029,871 representing 64.63 per cent failed to obtain admission requirement to the nation’s universities.

The former Head of National of the council, Mr. Charles Eguridu, announced the release of the results last August.

A further breakdown of the 2015 results, showed that the seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th positions went to Bayelsa, Delta, Enugu and Ebonyi states in that order.

Ekiti State placed 11th with 8,954 out of its 21, 333 candidates that sat for the examination getting the required admission benchmark.

Kaduna, Ondo, Abuja, Kogi, Benue, Akwa Ibom, and Kwara states came 12th, 13th, 14, 15th and 16th in that order.

Ogun State with 75,994 candidates occupied the 19th position. The state bagged 32.89 per cent with its 25, 006 candidates, comprising 12,059 males and 12, 947 females, obtaining five credits and above including English and Mathematics.

In the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25 slots are Cross River, Taraba, Plateau, Nassarawa, Kano and Borno states in that order. While 15,903 candidates out of 62,511 obtained the benchmark in Kano, 5,347 out of 21,695 got the same results in Borno.

Niger and Adamawa states occupy the rankings list ahead of Osun State. They placed 27th and 28th. While Osun State recorded 18.03 per cent success, Niger and Adamawa states got 19.66 and 18.08 per cent respectively.

Meanwhile, in the performance register for the 104 Federal Government colleges in the same examination, the Federal Government Girls’ College, Benin, outshined the others with 230 of its 232 pupils getting the university admission yardstick.

The Federal Government Girls’ College, Kazaure, occupied the second slot with only two of its pupils also missing the benchmark. But while FGGC Benin, obtained 99.14 per cent, its Kazaure counterpart, got 98.10 per cent.

The breakdown showed that the Federal Government College, Rubochi, came third with its 146 candidates, comprising 94 males and 52 females, out of 156 that sat for the examination putting up good showings.

The Federal Government Academy, Suleja; FGC, Okigwe, and the FGC, Nise, came fourth, fifth and sixth.

From the Unity schools in Lagos, the FGC, Ijanikin, which occupied the seventh position in the rankings, emerged the best in the state with 357 out of its 387 candidates that sat for the examination obtaining the basic university entry requirement.

It came ahead of the over 100-year-old Kings College (18th), Federal Science and Technical College, Yaba (21st) and the Queens College (54th). While 361 out of 452 candidates obtained their papers at KC, 181 out of 413 females succeeded at QC.

Occupying the eighth, ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th positions are the FGC, Okposi; FGC, Ikole-Ekiti; FGGC Efon-Alaye; FGGC, Minjibir, and the FGC, Jos, in that order.

From the statistics, The PUNCH findings revealed that of the 74 candidates that sat for the examination at the FGGC, Bajoga, no one got the basic admission requirement.

It was the scenario at the FGGC, Bauchi and Gboko. Whereas 143 candidates sat for the examination in the Bauchi school, 144 females did the same at the FGGC, Gboko.

For the FSTC, Kafanchan, of the 40 candidates, comprising 29 males and 11 females that sat for the examination, no one also obtained the minimum entry requirements to the university.

Of the 26 Unity schools occupying the rear positions on the performance chart, 22 of them are located in the North. The other four colleges are the FGGC, Ikot Obio Itong, Ukam at 89th position; FGGC, Calabar (92nd); FSTC, Uyo (93rd) and the FGC, Idoani, Ondo State occupying the 96th position.

In the May/June 2014 WASSCE, 529,425 candidates, representing 31.28 per cent of the candidates, obtained the minimum university entry requirement. One million, six hundred and ninety-two thousand, four hundred and thirty-five candidates sat for the examination that year.

In May/June 2013, 639,334 candidates, representing 38.30 per cent, qualified to seek admission to university in the country. One million five hundred and forty-three thousand, six hundred and eight-three candidates sat for the examination.

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DaBullIT:
Do not forget that Yoruba peeps are allies with Fulani peeps

I guess Niger Delta is in deeper shyt in wave of attacks that'll come as reprisals

Your business, not mine. Fulani is your ally and yet they also kill you like chicken in Lagos, Oyo, Ondo and Ogun?

My Yoruba peps in deep shyte. This is perhaps enough "good" news for "Mayoroflagos" to ruminate on, instead of "Igbo this-Igbo that". Shebi ilu re koti baje tele tele ni?

100 militants invade Ogun community, kill 15
June 19, 2016

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Samson Folarin

The Imushin community in the Ogijo area of Ogun State has been thrown into mourning after no fewer than 15 residents were reportedly killed on Friday evening by armed men suspected to be militants.

SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that about 100 militants, armed with guns and cutlasses, stormed the community around 11pm on Friday and embarked on a killing spree, killing every resident in sight.

When our correspondent visited the community on Saturday, he saw a few of the corpses which their families were preparing for burial in accordance with Islamic rites.



Among the 15 killed was a technician, Waheed Buhari, aka Yah Alau, who was shot dead in front of his room.

One of his children, Mariam, sustained bullet wounds.

A travel agent, Mr. Oladele Ogundare, was said to be returning home in his car, when the rampaging militants opened fire on his car and killed him.

Another resident, Umoru, who was said to be eating noodles, was chased, hacked and shot to death, along with a friend, Danladi.

A mosque in the community, was reportedly attacked and a Muslim cleric killed.

Two hotels were said to have also been raided and their customers robbed and injured.

More than 25 shops in the community were looted by the militants.

Many of the residents, who spoke with SUNDAY PUNCH, begged not to be identified as the militants had threatened to return to continue the killing.

A resident told our correspondent the militants were suspected to be Ijaw youths involved in pipeline vandalism.

She explained that they were on a revenge mission as some operatives of the State Anti-Robbery Squad had killed two of the vandals earlier on Friday.

She said, “The whole thing began around 4pm on Friday. I was at the backyard of the hotel, cutting some weed when some SARS officers came in. They were shooting and ordering people to stop moving. There was confusion in the hotel.

“The SARS officials did not leave until after three hours. They killed two of the vandals and took away the owner of the hotel, a woman.

“Around 10pm, I went to urinate when I saw so many hoodlums coming from the waterside down the road. They carried sophisticated weapons and when they got here, they started shooting. They blew off the hotel windows and shot people dead. They killed two men here in Lapete village.”

A friend of Waheed, the electrician killed in Oke Muti, said the Ilorin, Kwara State indigene had tried to shut his door when the militants killed him.

Waheed’s corpse was still lying in a room and being prepared for burial when SUNDAY PUNCH visited.

His friend said, “He was going to urinate when the militants started firing. He tried to quickly shut his door, but it did not jam. They opened fire on him at the door step and did not stop until he dropped dead.

“Not satisfied, they entered his room and sprayed everywhere with bullets. Waheed’s child, Mariam, that was in the room was hit. She is still at the hospital.”

He added that the police recovered 15 corpses in the community.

The widow of the travel agent killed in the Ereko area of the community said her husband, Oladele, who worked on Victoria Island, Lagos State, had left for work in his car on Friday morning without any foreboding.

She said, “He gave me money for foodstuffs after dropping me off in front of a bank where I wanted to do a transaction. By 6pm, we spoke and he asked me to prepare rice for him that night.

“By 10pm, I called his line; it rang and he didn’t pick. I tried it again at 12am, still no response. I called his mother by 6am that I had not been able to reach him on his two telephone lines and she promised to call as well. She also couldn’t get to him.

“It was this morning (Saturday) that I saw a crowd of people in my house. They said he was a short distance from home when he was shot dead. I can’t believe this because we have barely spent a year in this community and this has never happened before.”

Some customers at the Catcher Hotel were lucky to have escaped with their lives.

However, the hoodlums carted away all the valuables in the hotel and vandalised all the electronic gadgets.

A soldier, who was not in uniform at the time of the attack, said the vandals cut him with a cutlass and smashed bottles on his head.

He said, “I had entered the beer parlour in the hotel when the militants came in. They were about 200. At first, I thought they were having a festival until they ordered all of us to lie flat on the ground.

“They asked for my two phones and when I gave them one, they became angry. One of them cut my head with a machete and followed it with a bottle. I was drenched in blood. The militants had sophisticated weapons that I had never seen before.

“They never asked for money from me and they didn’t search my pocket. If they did, they could have found my ID card and I would have been dead. I wore just a white shirt.”

A disc jockey at the hotel said one of the militants wanted to shoot him dead, but one of them persuaded him against it.

“They were arguing among themselves whether or not to kill me. One said, ‘If you don’t want me to kill him, then let me cut off his leg.’ But his colleague asked him not to. Before I knew it, he had smashed three bottles on my head.

“They went away with my laptop, phones, money and everything I had. They refused to carry away the beers in the hotel. They took only the hard drinks,” he said.

Women in the hotel, who claimed that the militants spent about 30 minutes, said they tortured them with cutlasses and guns.

Efforts to speak with community leaders were abortive as they declined comment.

It was gathered that a community leader had been abducted by the militants a few months ago, after reporting a case against them at a station.

A source said, “The man was in the creek for 40 days. The militants collected N10m from the community before he was released. That is why everybody is afraid to talk. People have started fleeing the community. Two Hausas were killed during this attack and the Hausa community has vowed to fight back.”

A man, who spoke for the Imushin community, pleaded with the government to intervene before the community was completely deserted.

He said, “These people are militants and even the police cannot withstand their firepower. We need help from the government. We will appreciate anything they can do for us.”

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the attack, but said only three people were killed.

He said, “Around 11pm at Ereko Community, Ogijo, some hoodlums numbering about 100 invaded the community and started shooting sporadically. Bullets hit one Waheed Buhari and his daughter, Mariam. While Buhari died, the daughter is still at the hospital. Two other unidentified corpses were found, making a total of three deaths.

“Information from eyewitnesses showed that the hoodlums were militants and they came from the riverine area. But we have not confirmed this, as investigations are ongoing. We are particularly interested in why they came in such a large number.”

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Every sensible country runs its politics on sets of ideologies. Hence we have right wing versus left wing in such countries. In my other country, USA, it is the Republicans on the right and the Democrats on the left. Even India has same, as shown in the photos below where Indian right wingers are supporting Trump from half a world away.

So my question is, where are the ideologies in Nigerian politics? Do we have left and right wings in Nigerian politics? What do APC, PDP, APGA etc stand for ideologically speaking ?

The cattle take over

Abuja

AnakinSkywalker:
X-X-X= Die

YYYY= Alive

Says you, not me

Bump

Any Nigerian leader who budgets billions of Naira for Aso Rock Clinic and then runs to America, EU or UK for medical attention should x-x-x

What is x-x-x?

Any Nigerian leader who goes abroad for medical reasons should not come back yyyyy

What is yyyyy?

Let's see how smart you are with your answers

See! Dumb people. No one has an answer

What immediately comes to mind with these graphs?

What are your best interpretations of these Nigerian graphs?

Praktikals:
She is from the yeast.

Fool. Ameh is a Benue name as in former Senate President Ameh Ebute.

Smooyis:
lt would have loved it more if it was Nigerians solidarity in South Africa. As it is now, it looks clannish.

They asked Yorubas in SA to join in, but as expected they refused to identify with the anti -herdsmen call. The Yoruba prefer to die from the Fulani instead of protesting against their wrong doings. YORUBAS ARE THE SOUTHERN TRAITORS.

banki:
So the vigilante group was created solely to fight herdsmen?

So apart from herdsmen we didn't have kidnappers,murderers,thieves,ritualiats?

Those will now be tackled. Besides, if the police was not incompetent, complacent and/or corrupt, you would not be needing vigilantes to tackle kidnappers, thieves and ritualists, which BTW, also are found in other parts of Nigeria, including the North. So get outta here with your idiocy.

kidnappers,murderers,thieves,ritualiats

Speaking about those crimes in quote above, what again are those herdsmen?
They are kidnappers and murderers and thieves. The only vice they are yet to be accused of is being ritualists

senior123:
u guys r d joke of d century

You go soon see

AVG: ANAMBRA VIGILANTE GROUP.

FULANI MURDERERS IN ANAMBRA VILLAGES PUT ON NOTICE. THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM ONE OF SUCH VILLAGES, ADAZI NNUKWU

^^^^^^^^
quote author=Samtob90 post=45385871][/quote]So the end product of kidnapping for ritual is what? It is not for making money and becoming rich? You are half educated.

kettykin:
I have always said and I say it again, the problem is not the fulani herdsmen but the vulturous, betraying double headed snakes we have with us in the southern part of the country ,who are waiting for the slightest opportunities not to defend their lands from fulani invasion but to join fulani to fight other southerners

That is Yoruba for you, with the notable exception of Ekiti and Ondo. Oyo, Ogun, Osun and Lagos are southern traitors.

Rrr

Bump

ennysuccess:
I'm proud to be a Nigerian



IPOD should receive sense and accept one Nigeria

Only if you know she is an Igbo = IPOB

Omenanwanta:
Good governor good response. But warn the igbos selling igbo land to them in Afikpo, Okigwe, and Lokpanta.

Individual Igbos who feel like can sell THEIR OWN land to any willing buyer, just like Igbos buy land anywhere in Nigeria. What we do not support and can never support is Fed govt taking land in Igboland in the name of grazing reserves for private cattle rearers.

YourMrBoo:
Ntoli . That's kidnapping/ or act of abduction in Igbo language.

Ndi nto: kidnappers/abductors.

Thank you.

When was this word created versus the word gbomogbomo? I never heard of it until now.

MasterofNL:
Mynd44, Pls delete this thread.

Why so? Anything wrong with correcting the records? Can you prove me wrong?

The rigged-in "Sinnator" AKPABIO needs to be educated. He is an ignoramus on this matter

f you know what the Yoruba word gbomogbomo means in English, you will understand that kidnapping has been a business in SW even before Igbos got out of diapers. 

Can anyone give me a real Igbo word for kidnapping?

Surprised at Akpabio's ignorance. Kidnapping for money has been part of Nigeria's history. Yorubas have been doing it since Adam, as has been northerners. Even the trans Sahara and trans Atlantic slave trades were based on kidnapping people and selling them. If you know what the Yoruba word gbomogbomo means in English, you will understand that kidnapping has been a business in SW centuries ago, even before Igbos got out of diapers.

Can anyone give me a real Igbo word for kidnapping?

DauraDullard0:
What exactly is your point? I thought you're an American... How come you seem to be taking sides.

Just fvck off this thread before I send vultures after you. Irredeemable bigot!

You actually believe he is not Yoruba? That guy is 100% ijebu egba.

greenpasture:
You show the true marks of education. The ability to take a position based on research and not Mob psychology. Well done!

What research did he do? Who reviewed it? Where is the result of the research?