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The Federal Government on Saturday said of the 1,735,720 students that registered for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, only 520,000 will gain admission.

Addressing journalists at the Federal Government College, Suleja, Niger State, after monitoring the examination, Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, blamed this on the low-carrying capacity of the tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

She said, “The major challenge is a country like Nigeria having 1.7 million sitting for examination. The space we have is 520,000 for federal, states, private universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.

“If one million passed, what are we going to do with the rest 500,000? We will not expand the carrying capacity without expanding the facilities.

“What are we going to do with the large number of students out there? I feel the pain. Mr. President is very much concerned. If you have students that have passed examination and they cannot have access, you can imagine their thought in the long run.”

Rufai called on private firms and individuals to invest in tertiary education.

Responding to a question on the high fees charged by private universities, she said the legal department was looking into the ministry’s right to challenge the fees.

Although she agreed that private investors had the right to recoup their money, the minister said government would consider legal options to regulate the situation.

The minister also denied knowledge of any White Paper recommending the scrapping of the UTME and the National Examination Council.

She said, “It has become a very controversial issue. I have made a statement before the National Assembly that the Federal Government has a white paper on this. I’m not aware that NECO and JAMB will be scrapped. If we are not aware, what are we going to make an analysis out of? Government has not taken decision on that.”

Rufai further blamed improper shading of answer sheets by candidates for non-release of their results.

“If they don’t shade their papers correctly, they may not have results,” she added.

Meanwhile, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has arrested a middle-aged man who was identified as Isaac, for alleged impersonation at one of the Dual Based Test centres in Abuja.

The JAMB Registrar/Chief Executive. Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said the registration number on his slip and answer sheet did not tally.



Sourch (Punch NG)

newacca: Hello House,
Does anyone know if I can pay Uni-Assist fee by Bank transfer from my € Domiciliary account? I do not have anyone to help me pay via credit card.

Yes you can pay them from your Dorm account,Make sure you transfer the exact charges so that they can process your admission,Make sure you send them a copy of your bank teller for confirmation.I think the transfer charges from any bank is inbetween 10k sha.

I am currently dating 4 so i dont know the person that is gonna win my heart

kekakuz: 10 Signs That You’re Sleeping
With A Mammy Water
This is for all the guys who pick up random
girls on the streets without knowing anything
about them. Here’s how to know if you are
sharing your bed with a mammy water:
1. You picked her up from the street or
some other random place. Maybe she
was even standing in front of an
uncompleted building
2. You don’t know her surname. She told
you her name is “ Just Julie”
3. She agreed to sleep with you on the very
first day, in fact she moved into your
house, no questions asked.
4. She never gets tired. She can pound yam,
fry garri, grind pepper with a stone and
still have s*x with you when she finishes.
5. She always looks perfect, even first thing
in the morning. No pimples, her make-up
looks permanent and everything is
always in the right place.
6. Her Brazilian hair looks natural. It really
looks like her hair but maybe salons have
found a way to remove natural hair and
put it back later.
7. She never talks about her family and she
doesn’t have any friends. You only hear
her saying “My sea sisters” sometimes at
night but you’re not bothered because
girls call themselves all sorts of things.
8. Ever since you started sleeping with her,
your life has turned upside down but of
course your stepmother in the village is
to blame.
9. She has stopped you from eating fish.
Ever since she came into your life, it’s
only chicken or meat, nothing that comes
from the sea.
10. She doesn’t ask you for anything. In fact,
she’s every Nigerian boyfriend’s dream.
You don’t pay for human hair or BIS and
she doesn’t even want Blackberry Z10.
She doesn’t care about Valentine’s Day
and you don’t even know her birthday
sef. She never gets jealous or goes
through your phone and she couldn’t
care less about your Facebook password.
In fact she’s the best!
If the girl you’re with falls into all these
categories, you better wake up my guy, NA
FISH SHE BE!!

Guy that your number 2 and 8 no be small thing oo,Some kind girl wey be say after you meet them to see 1 naira self na wahala.Only God can save us oo.All in the name of sex shaa Abeeegi i just dey waka pass ni...

5yrs at the burial ground

flange: is there any sch in Germany that the studienkolleg language of instruction is in Englisch?
in Goethe ppl ive seen require b1 level of German language + waec to qualify for the studienkolleg. before u think of an exam to write learn ur german to that level

No school english studienkolleg Boss,Its German and you need at least B1 and some schools do want more..chikena!

Gtb declared dividend of 1.30 while first bank declared 2naira,zenith 60kobo.



Source my stock broker,molten trust limited.

Seun: @Caracta: thanks for sharing, I think not selling after the crash was a good idea. If you wait long enough (3 to 5 years) you may still make a profit on the stocks. What made you decide to invest in those 4 companies specifically? Was it because you believed in them, or because they advertised public offerings around the time you were looking to buy shares?

Daar communication really messed up,I invested in their public offers back in 2007 and now its 0.50k.Thats really a loss even intercontinental bank( now acess Bank).But such is life.

A US family has published the last, cut-off text message written by their 22-year-old son who crashed his car and died while using his cellphone, in the hope of preventing similar tragedies.

Alexander Heit, a 22-year-old student, drifted across the road while exchanging texts with a friend, realized suddenly and over-corrected with the steering wheel, sending his car rolling off the road.

He was pronounced dead at North Colorado Medical Center on April 3 after the late afternoon crash — and his family have agreed with police to issue a photograph of his last text exchange.
Texting and driving: Family's Warning of Fatal Crash Victim

Texting and driving: Family’s Warning of Fatal Crash Victim

The text shows two messages from a friend, who says: “Hey man I had to run out for like an hour,” to which Heit was replying: “Sounds good my man, seeya soon, ill tw ..” before abruptly stopping.

“Heit had been traveling eastbound .. Witnesses stated he seemed to have his head down, and began drifting into the oncoming lane of traffic. A westbound vehicle slowed and moved over just before Mr. Heit looked up.

“As he did, he jerked the steering wheel hard, over-correcting, resulting in his leaving the south side of the roadway, rolling and flipping the vehicle,” said a statement by police in Greeley, 55 miles north of Denver.

His mother Sharon Heit said: “I can’t bear the thought of anyone else having to go through something like this.

“Please, vow to never, NEVER text and drive. In a split second you could ruin your future, injure or kill others, and tear a hole in the heart of everyone who loves you,” she added, cited by the police statement.

Police chief Jerry Garner added: “Unfortunately, when we think to ourselves, ‘I’ll just do it this one time,’ we are fooling ourselves.

“This ‘one time’ may be the only time. The Heits are sharing their tragedy and loss, in hope that through Alex’s story, others may realize and recognize just how dangerous texting and driving is.”





Source :http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/04/13/vow-to-never-text-and-drive-cellphone-users-warned/

Kenny4lyfe: Like if you're MTN porting to Glo!
Quote this post and tell us why!

I have been using Glo since 2003 and they are just reliable more than that stupid Mtn

I do this alot,If you drive and try being an expert then you need to always know whats going on around you,I always use both the rear mirror and the centre mirror.The centre mirror helps alot and show me all thats happening at the back and behind.

Bloodofjesus: please do i need to sit for exam before enter Studienkolleg ,because i dont have knowledge in german now

Yes you do,and the name of the entrance examination is "Aüfnahmenprüfung"

@op are you a learner,so when are you gonna get married?

ukshirts: went to the embassy yesterday and pciked up my visa, will be leaving for berlin first week of May

Thats good news,Enjoy yourself and drink lots of beer

gentlesoul01: Please can somebody help mon how to get uni-assist application form (english version) because i only see german version there, thank u

Uni-assist form?What do you need from them?You mean a university admission form from Uni assist?I could be of help but please explain what you need moreover check the website very well you should be able to change the whole website to english.

rokiatu: because they are not bright. (any stupid guy ask me that question, the conversation will end right there)

Lol,I will only ask you this question maybe when im very sure that you cant leave me anymore lol

I wont need price Tag at ajangbadi or yaba market nah,all na to price with my mouth lol

blaze007: Abeg house,which uni naija folks plenty pass 4 germany?

So far so good,I think Uni konstanz,but why are you after uni where there are plenty of naija folks,Una like wahala oo?

steelie: please i want to notarise my documents for admission application by monday..what is the cost of notarisation at the german embassy??

It is free of charge,Be there by 7 am in the morning,Tell them at the gate that you are ther efor certification and you will be invited to the reception.Please go there with your photocopies and originals.

check owode onirin or ladipo

The customer officer is very correct,If you bring in cars from cotonou that does not guarantee that your paper works are authentic,You can always drive your car in city where you leave,but when you travel inter state and you being caught by the customs who can use their computer to identify documents its then that you will know that its serious,Your car will be seized.All those cotonou dealer in naija will never tell you the truth,Have you ever seen the way they smuggle those cars down 9ja,Tincan cars are the best and thats why they are expensive at times!

richmans: Pls,help me out i want to travel to benin republic and i dont knw how to go about it, A friend said i shld take bike from idi iroko to cross the border bt i dnt knw where idi iroko is situated,i stay in ibadan,so i wnt to knw how i ll go about it from ibadan down to benin republic

Yeah i do know the route that your friend is telling you,Its one of the easiest route to enter benin republic,Just from Ibadan take a bus that will stop at Sango Ota,from Sango Ota take a car going to idiroko border..It cost 500 naira or so 45 minutes drive then ya already at the border,just walk your way peaceful across the border you already in benin republic,from there take a car to cotonou city or wherever ya heading to,just after crossing the border you can exchange your money from naira to cfa,I think its 320 naira to 1000 cfa

olumidazz: A little after epe in the bush b4 ijebu ode is also lekki, u will find numerous 5 star hotels their that suits your taste and your 3k pocket.

@Olumidazz LOL LOL bro you killed the show why yap the guy nah,You cant even get 5k hotel anywhere in Lekki,chai you wicked oo you even wanting to take the price down from 3k again!!

On Tuesday, 16th April, 2013, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was interviewed by Christiane Amanpour , CNN’s chief international correspondent and anchor of Amanpour, a nightly foreign affairs program on CNN International.

Please find the transcript below-

AMANPOUR – Introducing the interview segment

Welcome back to the program. Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, is full of promise. But fulfilling that promise is sometimes a struggle. Plagued by corruption and mismanagement, the resource-rich country has a poverty rate of over 50 percent. Maternal mortality is shockingly high. And more than half of Nigerians don’t have access to electricity.

Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, can’t even escape the power problem himself. Here he is on Easter Sunday, delivering a speech to his people only to have it disrupted by a blackout. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says that she and her president want more for the country. She’s Nigeria’s finance minister and she’s been lauded as just the kind of reformer that Nigeria needs. She was a runner-up to lead the World Bank and “Forbes” ranked her as one of the world’s most powerful women.

But even she isn’t immune from Nigeria’s problems. Her own mother was kidnapped for a terrifying five days before being released. I spoke to her and I asked her about her country’s uphill struggle to transform Nigeria’s resources into a better life for all the people. We talked when she was here in New York for the Women in the World Summit.
And as you watch, we look forward to your tweets using #amanpour.

AMANPOUR: Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, welcome to the program.

NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: Thank you for having me.
AMANPOUR: Great to have you.
OKONJO-IWEALA: Thank you.

AMANPOUR: Nigeria is a huge and important country. We have many, many viewers from Nigeria, always very active and very interested. So it’s great to have you here.

OKONJO-IWEALA: Thank you.

AMANPOUR: You have said and others have said, that 2013 is going to be a real game-changing year, a turning point year for Nigeria, particularly in your area of finance and economics.

How?

OKONJO-IWEALA: Well, it’s going to be a game-changer and a turning point, because this is the year we are going to produce results. And we’re already producing results within the administration.

First, on the economic side, I just want to say that macroeconomic stability has been restored. Now, nobody should minimize that. Remember, there were two lost decades in Africa, in the ’80s and ’90s, where there was so much macro instability that people could not even focus on sectors that could create jobs.

Now things have gone right. We’ve got growth that is at 6.5 percent last year and we’re projecting for 2013, also, around the same number compared to average 5 percent on the African continent.

Now, I just want to say that when you mention GDP growth, people immediately say we can — in my country, they say we can’t eat growth; because we have unemployment challenges, we need to create more jobs. We have a challenge of inclusion. We have problems of inequality.

All those are challenges we face.

AMANPOUR: You are obviously a passionate defender of your country. You are a person who calls for transparency and honesty and best practices. There is a huge problem with corruption in your country. The president promised to address this stuff. And the latest is that an ally of his, a former governor who was convicted of stealing millions of dollars, has been pardoned, embezzling $55 million in public funds. Now, the U.S. calls that a setback for the fight against corruption. I mean how do you answer that?

OKONJO-IWEALA: How do I answer that question? OK, listen to what I have to say on corruption. And I think I have quite a bit to say. I wrote a book recently where I also had a whole chapter on that issue called, “Reforming the Unreformable.”

Nigeria does have a problem with corruption. And so do many other countries, including developed countries. I don’t like the fact that when people mention the name Nigeria, the next thing they say is corruption.

This is a country of 170 million people; 99.9 percent of them are honest, hard-working citizens who just want to get on with their lives and they want a government that delivers for them.

What we’ve said is that in order to help block any leakages and help to, you know, stop any attempts at corruption or taking monies, we must build electronic platforms. We must distance people from the money.

These things were recommended by the World Bank and the IMF. I used to work at the World Bank. We are doing them.

And I strongly believe that we lack institutions. We lack processes.

Now, what President Goodluck Jonathan has done now is to call the judiciary, the legislature and the executive arm for the first time to meet together on this issue and say, this is not just about government, this is about all of us coming together, because even if you catch somebody, they go to the courts and they are let off lightly.

The president can’t do anything about that. The judicial system also has to be strengthened.

Legislators also have to crack down. They themselves have to work at also being transparent and helping the executive.

But for me, also, in addition to doing that, we need to stop talking and identify the specifics, like you mentioned oil leakages. Let me mention two things quickly.

The first one is the oil theft that is 150,000 barrels a day –

AMANPOUR: Which is huge.

OKONJO-IWEALA: — a month — which is huge. Yes. I admit that. And we can’t afford — I’ll tell you; my thesis on corruption is we are still a poor country. We cannot afford any leakage.

We also need the international community to weigh in. We have — Mexico and Nigeria are suffering from this problem, you can check. Mexico has (inaudible) losing 25,000 barrels a day. And they found (inaudible).

In our case, we have international people who also buy that stolen oil. We need them to treat this stolen oil like stolen diamonds, the blood diamonds. Make it blood oil. Help us so that those people don’t have a market to sell this stuff.

That’s one. And we ourselves should commit to fighting — and we are fighting that.

AMANPOUR: Let me ask you about that, because you also have challenges with electricity. You mentioned you’re very rich in oil and people just simply don’t understand why there still seem to be so many problems with electricity.

And it might seem, you know, weird to pick on that one thing, but it is very prevalent. I asked your president about this during an interview I did by satellite when he was at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Let’s just see what he had to say to me.

*video clip*

GOODLUCK JONATHAN, PREISDENT OF NIGERIA: That is one area that Nigerians are quite pleased with the government, that’s a commitment to improve power. It’s working. So if you are saying something different, I’m really surprised. That is one area, one area that we will — civil society members agree that government has kept faith with its promise.

*end of video clip*

AMANPOUR: Now, that interview caused a bit of a hullabaloo, as I think you know, in Nigeria. And yet, the World Bank has said that half — more than half the Nigerian population doesn’t have any access to the power grid.

OKONJO-IWEALA: As you know, Nigeria became a democracy again when President Obasanjo came into power in 1999. Two decades prior to that, there was hardly any investment in electricity. If you’ve neglected a sector for that long, you’ve not invested, you’ve not even maintained your basic facilities, it’s not going to happen that fast. It takes time. That month, when you interviewed the president, the polls showed, independently, scientifically (inaudible) that they are in technical partnership with dialogue. That 54 percent of Nigerians felt there was some improvement. They do it monthly. Now this month, they’ve surveyed and they’ve showed this going down, because 800 megawatts has been taken off the grid, which is while they are maintaining the grid.

AMANPOUR: Well, let me ask you, because businesses apparently say that this problem with electricity is causing them to, you know, be reluctant to invest.

*cross talk*

AMANPOUR: They need this investment…

OKONJO-IWEALA: Nigeria is not the only country. Almost every developing country has a problem with power, as you know. India has it. South Africa has it. South Africa is far better off because they’ve invested much more.

But many developing countries, even China, they are struggling with keeping up with infrastructure.

Now, what we are doing in Nigeria? We have accepted that the government is not the best place to run the power sector, that if we want this country and this economy to do better, we just have to get out. And Nigeria is pursuing one of the most sweeping privatization programs in any country in the world. We are selling off everything. The generation capacity, the distribution capacity in the country, government is only retaining one thing — transmission.

AMANPOUR: Well, on that note, Madam Minister, thank you for joining me.

OKONJO-IWEALA: Thank you, Christiane, for having me.




sourcehttp:# //www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/nigeria-does-have-a-problem-with-corruption-and-so-do-many-countries-okonjo-iweala-on-amanpour-read-transcript/

topeajis: Worried much about ma issue. My application @ the embassy is now 4weeks my school is telling me to resume before april 30th. I told embassy they said my file they the foreigner office in Berlin and I. Mailed the foreigner office those one say student visa takes 4-6 weeks. And my school doesn't help with visa stuff. Am scared now.

Bro you gotta relax your mind because that is how it works,German student visa normally takes time because they need to verify all your documents but i am sure before 2 month they are gonna consider you #Hope and Pray#

I am on cnn and they did not say that its bomb blast but an explosion at a fertilizer plant so stop exaggeration,only 3 people confirmed dead and the casualties could be as as high as 60..

justwise: He can't do that with visiting visa

Yeah that the truth,Its either he get things right from Home here or he forgets Germany,He should have planned earlier.Its summer and the embassies are getting busy.since the days are fully booked until may,then he should accept fate cos it takes another 2-3 weeks to know if he is gonna get the visa.

ichommy: me and Swker we dey the same cacous

@OP and ichommy,Too much prostitute don dey una blood nah

To me yes,Its for your own good,The traffic in Lagos is bad and your fan might not be enough to handle your radiator heat,I currently just got a c class benz and i was told thesametime,I listen to some novince and stupid people until i destroyed my radiator.The extra fan cost just 2000 naira,Its cools the engine and give you confidence when stuck in traffic.Just borrowing you my one cent.Once your car over heats,you destroy radiator and gasket then your wahala begins oo...

Chris brown is da best,I hardly listen listen to drake with his 2013 junk song started from the bottom ..lol

T-Cann:
[size=18pt]Thank you Godson,
Nope, he has not travelled before, in fact this is his very first visa. He was granted the UK visa along with his wife and 2 children. SO he intends to side step into Germany (Just a weekend) to sight see BMW Auto museum and say hello to friends when they get to the UK by June. I hope the Germans allow sha.[/size]

Yeah thank God Germani made everything easy now,Just let the person to go the german embassy website,book appointment asap for free and download the form from there fill,Thats all bro,In your friend case its easy joor..