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The Convocation Ceremony of University of Lagos (Unilag) scheduled to take place on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th January 2013 has been cancelled through the order of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Investigation revealed that the cancellation was as a result of the refusal of the Alumni Association and Governing Council of the University to effect the name change announced by the Federal Government last year.

It will be recalled that the President in a nationwide broadcast last year renamed the institution Moshood Abiola University Lagos (MAULAG) in honour of the acclaimed winner of the June 1993 Presidential election, Late MKO Abiola,a moved rejected by the School authorities.

The case is pending in court. President Jonathan insisted that the new certificates to be issued by the University MUST bear the new name, an order the University authorities have refused to implement. It is yet to be known when the convocation will take place.

ABU SBRS 2012-2013 admission list for basic & remedial programmes in the Ahmadu Bello University is out.

To check, go to www.sbrsabu.org.

Registration starts from Thursday 3rd January to 17th January 2013. However you will have to present your original:-
(1) 0' or A' level result
(2) Primary school leaving certificate
(3) Local government indigene certificate
(4) Birth certificate or declaration of age
(5) Application form or examination slip
(6) 4 recent coloured passports.

And finally pay a non-refundable school fees (N63,900 for remedial program and N57,900 for basic).

NOTE: Lecture commences on 7th January and if a student fails to register within the stipulated time, he/she should consider his/her admission forfeited.

This is to announce to all successful 2013 applicants of the annual OERL/NABTEB study in India Scholarship that printing of examination slip is now on!

All applicants whose payment has been received and approved can now print their official examination slip from this website.

To print your OERL Scholarship Exam Slip
1. Visit www.myschool.com.ng/print-oerl
2. Enter your mobile number.
3. Click on "print exam slip".

What does the exam slip contain?

1. Examination Details: Examination Center address, Candidate's Exam number, Course chosen and Examination subjects and examination time.

2. Candidate Details: Candidate full names, date of birth, sex, space to affix passports.

3. Special note: Writing materials, warning against malpractices, type of calculators allowed in the exam.


Good luck to all applicants!

This is to inform all prospective students oƒ Anambra State University that the school has updated her website with the 5th Batch provisional admission list for 2012/2013.

All ANSU prospective student who are yet to see their admission status should quickly hurry to the school website with the following instructions:-

1. Log on to: www.ansu.edu.ng
2. Scroll to admissions to highlight the 5th batch.
3. Check your name.

We wish you good luck. Note that all admitted students will be officially welcomed to school by weekend in the ANSU Matriculation ceremony.

Orientation of students for the Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) in the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta has been fixed for February 11, 2013 as follows;

Venue: MPB01 (Oba Oyebade Lipede Multipurpose Complex)
Date: Monday, 11th February, 2013
Time: 12.00 noon

FUTYOLA - A couple of weeks after the release of the FUTYOLA first admission batch for 2012/2013, the university Vice Chancellor, in a recent broadcast had promised that the second admission list into the school will be out soon.

Speaking to the students in a programme, a "Myschoolite" gathered that the FUTYOLA (MAUTECH) 2nd admission list will be out before the end of January, 2013.

All expectant prospective students of the institution should pray hard to be enlisted in the awaited list. Good luck

The long waited Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) 2nd batch admission list into the 2012/2013 pre-science programme is out.

The list which was reported out yesterday has been posted this morning in the pre-science office inside the utility hall.

All applicant who applied for the programme should go and check their names as directed above inside the school permanent site.

So unfortunate! Many students are hungry for a "sharp brain". Yet they are too busy to take time and read articles like this. Hope you are not one of them!

I have written several "special articles" within a couple of weeks here on Myschool, I hope you weren't unlucky to have missed them! Keep track with the recent three(3) you've missed at;
1. 7 Secrets to Winning Scholarships Abroad.
2. Learn 6 ways to improving your reading habit.
3. How to Create a Useful Study Group On Campus.

Today I'm here again to disclose to you some tips that will help you "sharpen your mental abilities", especially while studying/reading. Are you ready? Okay, let's do it...

Sharp mindedness means the quickness of a person to interpret, understand, analyse, or pick up an idea adequately. It is a quality that enables you to find a solution to a problem very quickly or answer a question very quickly or learn very quickly. A person with sharp brain is a keen and quick observer. He has also a go creativity power. He has good memory to remember things for long time. Sharp mindedness is necessary in every sphere of life.

As a student, you need to learn things quickly and properly to avoid wastage of time. Similarly in exam you need to reproduce ideas (what you have learnt while your preparation) in paper very quickly to complete the paper in time. A sharp minded student takes comparatively less time to learn a chapter than a blunt minded student.

Some people have this quality as in-born quality while others have to develop this quality by practice.
There many ways to sharpen your brain, some of which I will share with you right now as follows;

Brain Exercise: Use your brain more and more
Like other parts, the brain also becomes more powerful by exercising brain. Exercising brain means using it more and more. Generally brain is involved in every work we do but there are some works in which we have to brain, thinking power, mental analysing power and all our mental capabilities, such works can contribute in exercising our brains.

For instance, a product maker is in a situation when he thinks how to minimise the cost of making a product as well as maximise the quality of product. He will have to think more and more, use his brain to find the solution which indirectly exercise his brain as well. Similarly we can produce such situations or involve ourselves in such situations to exercise our brain. In the beginning, we will face difficulties in such brain exercise but with passage of time it will become very easy as we develop brain’s sharpness by exercising our brain.

Mental capability or thinking power can be enhanced by using brain in the same way. Brain exercises sharpen our brain. Try mental exercise daily. It sharpens your mind. It strengthens neural connections in your brain. Now think what are a brain exercises or such situations which exercise our situation? It can be a simple task like “Essay writing on a topic”, in which we have use our brain to collect ideas about the topic and use brain to present ideas in a proper way for the reader. We take a paper and write all the idea that we know about the topic. We may know 10 to 15 topics very easily then we start thinking (brain exercise) to find more and ideas about the topic. If we write such essays daily, it can exercise our brain to sharpen it.

There are different activities which involve brain work and flourish the power of your brain.

A. Playing games like chess, scrabble, and many others
B. Solving numerical problems, or puzzles and quizzes
C. Trying out tricky situations usually given in magazines and newspaper.
D. Making some difficult charts and tables, daily
E. Studying difficult topics and trying to learn it and gain command on it.
F. Writing essays on different topics, daily.

The above activities are brain exercises. If you do such activities daily, it slowly and gradually increases your mental capability. Brain sharpening is not possible in one day. It needs daily brain exercise and within few days you feel the change. Trust me, it works!

Permit me to stop this part1 here. I will pick up next on "Critical thinking" as a second method of sharpening your brain, and thereafter I will talk about "Nutrients to the brain", and so much more. Stay tuned so you won't miss any of these.

Admission list into the department of Maritime and Information Communication Technology (ICT) of the University of Benin has been released.

All students whose names appeared on the admission list are invited to the school (the said departments) on the 18th of January, 2013 for clearance.

Payments (tuition and clearance) is expected to be in the range of N45,000+.

The students whose names appeared on school website, drawn from the Faculty of Science of the University, are eligible for the forthcoming PTDF undergraduate scholarship examination, having scored 200 and above in the 2011/2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Examination Date: Saturday, January 19, 2013
Venue: Faculty Building 1, West Campus, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State.
Time: Exam starts at 9:00AM PROMPT (candidates are expected to be seated in the examination hall by 7:30AM; it is MANDATORY that candidates produce their ACTIVATED University ID CARDS before being allowed into the examination hall).

The candidates are to be tested in following subjects (100 questions, objective; two hours; pen/pencil; use of calculator allowed):

1. Mathematics
2. English Language
3. Physics
4. Chemistry.

This is to inform all candidates who applied for the 2012/2013 Second supplementary Post – UTME of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology that the admission list of successful candidates has been released.

Candidates are accordingly advised to log onto www.ust.edu.ng and make e – payment of Five Hundred Naira (N500) only by using Interswitch Verve enabled cards to print their admission status.

Candidates who are offered admission should log onto the University website www.ust.edu.ng and make e-payments of Acceptance fee of Nineteen Thousand, Five Hundred Naira (N19,500.00) only by using Interswitch Verve enabled cards. Thereafter, they are to proceed to the Convocation Arena between the hours of 9am and 3pm daily for Faculty Clearance before making further payments.

News report reaching Myschool.com.ng from the River State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) informed that the school management have increased school fees for students NOT origin of the state to N63,000.

Though yet unconfirmed, do you think that inter-state discrimination in amount payable as school fees will encourage national unit and uniform development?

Now all Nigeria students should discuss this below. Discussion start!

Covenant University Re-considers the 200 Expelled Students!

Few Weeks back, We Posted something about 200 Covenant University Students that were expelled from the university following their absence in church service.

The good news from Covenant reveals that the Students have been re-considered and asked to resume School.

The authorities of the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, might have commuted the expulsion of its 200 students.

The university authorities were last week asked by the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria to come forward with all records of the processes that led to
the expulsion.

Thank God justice took its course. If you are happy about the re-consideration, express it below in comment.