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My scratch card pin is 11 digits no wot of u guyz?

Plz my scrath card is 2012...does it hav any effect in checkin d result cos I was unable to check mine sayin card pin error...plz wc year card do u uc?

Plz my scrath card is 2012...does it hav any effect in checkin d result cos I was unable to check mine sayin card pin error...plz wc year card do u uc?

davidmascot: I made 296 , gov't 100 in gov't

Guy r u sure d result is out nd whc browser do u uc to check am?

Chiamaka01: the eportal is really open and the registration is stress-free and user-friendly. I was given Biological sciences Block D. My fellow aspirants, go register sharperly, oh.

ao much u take regista guy

Kunlexic: A motor truck releases an average of 5.0g CO into air for evry km covered.How many molecules of CO will be emitted into the air if the truck travels 8km? [C=12;O=16;Nᴬ=6.02x10^23] A.4.32x10^22 B.2.48x10^22 C.8.6x10^23 D.6.82x10^21

[OAU 2013 POST-UTME]

option C

Olorodegbng: it's #2300 regisration form and result checker #3500

thnx guy

plz wits d p.ume cost?

In this interview with SAMUEL AWOYINFA , Oladipupo
Adebutu, one of the sons of lotto magnate, Sir
Kessington Adebutu, talks about his father
Could you introduce yourself?
My name is Oladipupo Adebutu. I was born on
February 25, 1962 at the Island Maternity, Lagos. I
attended Our Women’s Day Nursery School, Yaba. I
later attended St. Saviour’s Primary School, Lagos. I
was at Igbobi College, Lagos for my secondary school
education. I was there between 1972 and 1978 when I
sat for the West African School Certificate
Examination.
In 1978, I left for the Republic of Ireland, Dublin, where
I attended St. Columbus College, Gratfanam which was
like the Advanced Level. I was there till 1980. For my
higher education, I attended the Regional Technical
College, Carlo between 1980 and 1984. I also attended
University of Limerick, where I read Analytical
Chemistry, and I returned to Nigeria around
1986/87.The school then was called National Institute
of Higher Education. There were a couple of years in-
between when I could not make up my mind, whether I
wanted to return to Nigeria or not. But I think I
returned in 1987.
When you returned to the country, where did you work?
When I returned to the country, I participated in the
compulsory one year service in the National Youth
Service Corps. I served in Borno State, specifically in
Biu, I taught in a secondary school. Borno was
peaceful and lovely then. But since I was a Lagos boy,
I did not stay long in Biu. I had to redeploy to Lagos
where I later served with the Apapa Local Government.
After your national service, where did you work?
I went abroad to read Analytical Chemistry, because
then, my dad had a paint factory in Iperu, Ogun State.
But unfortunately by the time I returned from abroad,
the dynamics of the economy did not support the
production of paint. The paint factory was not doing
well. There was problem with the importation of raw
materials and there were some other challenges too.
Because of these, I had to look elsewhere. That is why
I always share this experience with as many young
people that would listen.
I went into agriculture. And I was able to set up a
piggery in Iperu, which has remained till date one of
the biggest piggery farms in the whole of the South-
West geo-political zone of Nigeria. It has been very
rewarding. A lot of times, people said to me ‘you read
abroad, you did Analytical Chemistry, what are you
doing in agriculture?’ But I must confess, that is the
most satisfying aspect of my life.
Could you share your childhood experience with your
dad?
My father is someone you can call an enigma. He is a
multi-faceted person. That’s the way I will describe
him. In my own opinion, he is the most generous father
on earth. He gives without looking back. He gives only
the best, and no half measure. No sacrifice for him is
too much for a child. But there are fundamental
principles which you dare not abridge with him. Once
you give him your word, you must die for it for you to
change it. It is very hard to do, because things change.
But to him, once you give a commitment, you must
fulfil it. And that is the mainstay of his business —
gaming. He went into that business without capital. He
went into it with goodwill and his word. He says, ‘play
coupon, when you win, I will pay you your money.’ And
because he maintained that goodwill, the gaming
business is successful. Again, when he went into lotto
business, it is with the same goodwill and his word —
play, win and get your money. He usually tells us his
children that a good name is better than silver and
gold. He tells us to honour our commitment.
Has this helped you in any way?
Yes. I am in politics, where double-speak is the
currency.But I have refused to engage in double-
speak. When I say something I must do it, because I
am committed to it. I have been brought up not to
accept double-speak.
In what areas do you intend making impacts in
politics?
I believe in free enterprise. There should be laws that
will make things work in our ports. There should also
be laws that will guarantee the security of lives and
property. There should be laws that will create the
enabling environment for business to thrive.
When did he start the gaming business: pools betting
and lotto?
I grew up to know him in the pools betting business,
among them was Face to Face . He’s been in business
for as long as I could remember. He did a lot of other
businesses. He was an importer of tiles, ceramics and
adhesives among others, for a very long time. But as
the economy grew from bad to worse, those
businesses became much more difficult to do and
gradually he eased out of them.
Did he have time for his children when they were
young?
Like I said earlier, the man is an enigma. If he’s within
the country, wherever he was, he would come back
home at 1.00pm for his lunch. We would all have our
lunch together. And on Sundays, he gave the children
a special treat, by taking us to either Mainland Hotel
or Federal Palace Hotel to spend the Sunday afternoon
Again, every summer, he would take us abroad for
vacation for two or three weeks. He is very good man.
But currently, I have a problem working with this kind
of standard, and my children are asking, ‘Daddy,
Grandpa took you abroad for summer, and stayed with
you, why didn’t you do the same for us?’ My father is
a fantastic man.
What are his hobbies?
My father neither plays squash nor polo. He enjoys the
company of his friends and they play card games such
as poker and black jack. They do have a good time.
Does he socialise?
My dad enjoys himself. He socialises well. He loves
parties and he loves good life.
What is his favourite drink?
It takes him two hours to finish a bottle of beer.
Is he a car freak?
No. My father sees cars as a means of conveyance.
For a long time, he fancies Mercedes Benz. But he
added two others. Specifically, he’s more into
Mercedes Benz cars.
Does the name Adebutu open doors for you?
The name is an asset but it is also my biggest
liability. It is an asset because it opens doors and it
gives me special recognition easily. But the flipside is
that people tend to expect too much from me. And a
lot of things that others will do and go scot-free, I dare
not do, because of that name. But I am not
complaining, since both liability and asset must go
hand-in-hand.
What is your dad’s favourite food?
First, I will say he has tendency for moderation, and he
does not have any favourite food. He enjoys both local
and international dishes. But he loves vegetable. It
must be well prepared with a lot of sawa fish.
Does he have special nicknames his friends call him?
His long-time friends call him ‘Kessy Bobo’ and he
cherishes it so much.
How did Baba Ijebu, that most people call him, evolve?
Baba Ijebu is the new nickname. The nickname
originates from the lotto business. It has to do with
the way he has managed people’s resources. That is
when someone plays the game and he or she wins, he
or she gets instant payment. It is because someone
has managed those resources well. And for we Ijebus,
there is the general belief that we are good managers
of resources. I think that’s how that name came about.
How does your dad relax?
Unfortunately, that’s one thing he does not know how
to do. It is very painful. He is always doing something.
I wish my father could just go somewhere and rest for
a while. When he goes on vacation, he carries his work
with him. What kind of vacation is that? And he will be
phoning the office every three hours to monitor his
business back home.
You want him to relax more?
Yes. At almost 80 years, he deserves to rest. He was
79 years old last October.
What are some of his likes and dislikes?
My father is like a chief investigating officer. If you tell
him lies, you are asking for more trouble. It is better to
come clean, because with his intellect and ability to
investigate, you will surely surrender.
Was he ever a policeman?
No. He is just a brilliant man.
What values have you imbibed from him?
I’ve learnt the values of hard work, forthrightness and
truthfulness from him.
If there is anything you can change about your dad,
what will it be?
The only thing that bothers me about him is that at
times he can be too fastidious. He is demanding and
sometimes his extent of demand cannot necessarily be
the best. If one can get 80 per cent compliant from a
human being and one is insisting it should be 100 per
cent, it can make things unworkable. One must
overlook some things.
Your dad took a younger wife, some few years back,
how did his children feel about it?
The truth is that my dad is a multi-faceted man. And
it depends from which area you are looking at him. It
is something I will do, so I will be the last person to
criticise his action. Every 10 years or thereabout, my
father finds a new love. May be for others with his
position, stature and resources, such persons may find
new love every five years. In my own opinion, my
father is not excessive in this aspect.
Have you ever played lotto?
Yes, I have. It is quite exciting. It is a very exciting way
for recreation and it is quite interesting.
How many wives does your father have?
I know that my father has 12 children from five
women. We are seven boys and five girls.
Are the children of the youngest wife included?
Yes
What number are you among the children?
I am the first child.
What kind of music does he listen to?
He loves King Sunny Ade and Chief Ebenezer Obey’s
music. He has extensive collection of their works.
Is he a Christian or a Muslim?
He is a Christian but of Muslim descent. His parents
were Muslims.
What faith do the children profess?
He allows us to follow whatever faith that suits us. For
instance, I am an evangelist in the Celestial Church of
Christ fold. Some of us are in the Redeemed Christian
Church of God.



source: www.punchng.com/feature/famous-parents/my-dad-falls-in-love-every-ten-years-baba-ijebus-son/

A former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon
Brown, has asked the British government to send
troops to Nigeria to help secure the release of the
abducted pupils of Government Secondary School,
Chibok, Borno State.
The girls, well over 200 of them, were kidnapped from
their hostels on the night of April 14.
Brown, who is also the United Nations Special Envoy
for Global Education, while speaking during a debate
at the House of Commons, said that in view of the
possibility that the kidnapped girls might have been
divided into groups and hidden in separate places, his
home government should send the UK forces to assist
Nigeria’s army.
He said, “These wholly innocent young girls—Lugwa
Abuga, Rhoda John, Comfort Amos, Maryamu Yakubu
and 200 others—are now incarcerated in the forest
areas of Borno State. Some have perhaps been
dispersed across three other countries: Niger,
Cameroon and Chad. Their physical and mental health
is a worry for everyone.
“If the girls have been dispersed to a number of
different places, a rescue mission for one group would
immediately put the other groups at risk. That is the
dilemma that confronts the Nigerian Government, as I
understand it.
“That is why they need additional support to monitor
what is happening and, if it is necessary to intervene,
(we should send) the troops, security services and the
air cover to do so.”
Jim Shannon, a member of the House, told Brown that
the legislators were concerned about the ongoing
violence in Nigeria and the continued incarceration of
the schoolgirls.
He however expressed doubts over Nigeria’s reaction
to the insurgency.
Shannon said, “The House is filled with members who
are equally concerned about this issue. There has been
unwillingness, or perhaps the Nigerian government
have been unable, to respond in the way that we back
home think they should.
“Is that because they are unable to seek the covert
assistance that they need in order to ascertain where
the schoolchildren are and bring them back? Does he
feel that perhaps the covert assistance that this
government could offer is one way forward?”
Brown urged the UK’s lawmakers to prevail on the
country’s government to do more in assisting the
Nigerian government, saying that security at Nigerian
schools should be beefed up.
He said, “There is a second thing that we can do to
help. We cannot have safe schools if we do not have
safe communities. In addition to the rising military and
security presence in these towns, we need to allocate
extra resources to reassure parents, teachers and
children that they can go to school.
“It has to make its schools safer, so that there is
confidence among pupils and families that children
can go to school. That may mean better perimeter
fencing, walls, lighting, and communication and
security systems to keep people in touch.”
Brown, who is promoting the UN’s safe school for
children initiative, explained that Nigeria had already
contributed $10m to the project. According to him,
$10m has also come from the business community,
£1m from the UK and $1.5m from Norway.
“Money is coming from other countries in the EU, and
there are promises from the United States of America. I
hope that one outcome of the debate will be to
convince the government that it is worth providing
more than £1m. Without this initiative, many of the
other measures in which we are engaged to help
education in Nigeria cannot be successful,” the former
prime minister told the House.
According to Brown, the UN has just passed a Security
Council resolution, Global Coalition to Protect
Education from Attack, which states that schools
should have the same legal protection in conflict areas
as hospitals.
“In northern Nigeria today, we have on the one side
terrorists, murderers, rapists and cowards hell-bent on
acts of depravity, and on the other side we have the
defiant, relentless, and brave beyond comprehension
young people who are desperately fighting for a future
but are too often oblivious to our attention.
“We must be clear that in the battle between the girls
of the world and the backward-looking extremists,
there will, in the end, be only one winner, but we
should not have to wait another half-century with
millions of lives ruined, millions of dreams destroyed,
millions of hopes and aspirations crushed, for the
world to deliver—as we must for the Nigerian girls, and
for girls everywhere—the opportunities that should be
and are every girl’s birth right,” Brown urged the UK
parliament.
Appearing before the parliament earlier, the
Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of
Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had said that
Nigeria was taking a “three-pronged approach to
dealing with the various dimensions of crisis, and this
includes security, political and economic solutions.”
She said, “On the security front, our military men and
women are confronting an unprecedented challenge
that they were not really trained to confront and so we
thank them for their courage and bravery. The
President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces,
has increased the number of troops that are in the
North-East from 15,000 to 20,000.
“Regional cooperation on security has got better
following a decision by neighbouring countries: Chad,
Cameroon, Benin and Niger, to each contribute a
battalion of soldiers, to fight Boko Haram alongside
Nigeria.
“President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted offers
from the international community for more surveillance,
aircraft cover, and equipment that enhances our ability
to locate, fight and root out insurgents.”

Fynestboi: the same jamb combo.

.
u mean am not goin to do math?.


wots OAU nursin cut off plz

Going for Nursing science wt 219 in jamb .
Wot r d p.ume subject n nursin cutt off

davido babe na baba

BoboYekini: I had my cousin in your very shoes when we were younger. Someone told him rub the inner side of plantain peel, he started this and in a week the acne cleared. I thought it was magic!

can u plz elaborate?

adexdon: Any1 av d ideal of hw much d aceptance fee gonna b and when d link wil open 4 payment

20k,wen final list is out

DEVA1: use babyface facial cleanser.
thank me later

can u plz explain somtin abt it including price nd pix

merry Xmas fwends

Pearlpeluz: I was given engineering. I need someone to put me through. What topic should I start reading in Mathematics and Physics. I'm kind of average in those subjects and I need to prepare hard b4 we resume.

well,all dos topic r kinda simple
Buh if u very lautech textbook... u cab start reading differential calculus in math nd optic in physics

lemme tell u guyz...lautech admission is not abt merit,is abt leg nd catchment area....



u talking abt crossing,mind u, if nursing dept is full "no more rum 4 student to cross in",dats means u can't cross to it @ all or else u might end up in anoda dept dat is even worse lyk faa nd odaz cos in lautech we strongly believe dat faa is d worse course been offer




@u goodness... am male nd u don't expect me to ve female rum8

Goodness555: Anybody given nursing/nursing science shud comment here by posting his jamb nd post ume score

well..my. rum8 was offerd nursing science wt 188 in jamb nd 377 in PD buh he didn't do post jamb...wots ur own jamb nd pjamb score

myamtj: Learnt we are to pay #5800 Regularization fee. Aw true s it? Anyone got d idea?

is mandatory for xpdite dat was offered admission to lautech … am also an xpdite

any info abt medicine admission

I heard dat xpdites are to report to pd complex 4 further registration nd check ur PD portal for ur admission

Henry46: LUBBISH!
ASUU "MAY" call off. Every time may may may.
Abeg make the strike dey may may enter January abeg.
I no wan go skul go chop concoction rice for Xmas

u can resume anytime u like guy even 2015

The Federal Government and the Academic Staff
Union of Universities have reached an agreement to
end the over five month old strike by ASUU. The
lecturer’s association has however said that its
members may return to work next week.
The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom
Wike told journalists at a meeting with the
leadership of ASUU, President of the Nigeria Labour
Congress, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian
Universities Commission and five vice- chancellors
of universities that all contending issues between
the parties have been resolved.
The parties signed a document to seal the
agreement which spells great hope that the over
five-month old strike may be called off within one
week, although the president of ASUU, Professor
Nasir Faggae declined to say what was contained in
the document.
ASUU’s demands include the upward review of the
retirement age for professors from 65 to 70;
adequate funding to revitalise the university
system; progressive increase of budgetary
allocations to the education sector by 26 per cent;
transfer of federal government property to
universities; setting up of research and
development units by companies; payment of
earned allowances; and renegotiation of the signed
agreement.
The agreement between the two is reached barely
24 hours after the Special Assistant on Public
Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe presented a proof of
payment of N200 billion into an account with the
Central Bank of Nigeria.
The strike began on July 1 st 2013 and lasted for
over five months before this resolution was
reached.

bosmanfaithy: Pls houz,hw is d newly admitted student gonna pay there acceptance fees. Pls any idea should holla

until schl admission list is out guy

Bowaley17: @Daniluv...ok.accountancy only right?... Pls aside unibadan,is there any other fed,Univ...In oyo state

don't fink so guy

@bowaley...lautech is a sci schl,it only offer science course except accounting nd faa dey offer Buh d course somehow influence wt sci

bosmanfaithy: Pls wot is dis institution upto nw, dey just kept silience since haba

let dem do anything dey like...dey should hold it till next year if dey like

abeg make lautech follow suit

which store can I get it either in Ekiti or ogbomoso?

lyly911: just chill i will tell you d answer later

very cheap question....
peter is son to john...