With the way kidnapping activity is spreading across the country now, it is important to take self precautions at all times.

Just of recent it was discovered that one of the killers of the Kaduna state Doctor's wife, was a Police officer who was familiar with the Doctor's family. The police officer was identified by the late woman's daughter, who was kidnapped alongside her mother in Kaduna before the mother was killed.

While Nigerians were yet to finish digesting the news, another report came up of an oil mogul, whose mother was kidnapped.

According to report, Shema's mother was kidnapped and the kidnappers demanded for 100 million naira as ransom. After tough negotiations, 20 million naira was agreed upon as ransom but the kidnappers gave condition that the ransom must be in mint notes.

Shema approach CBN, and got the mint note to the tune of 20million; serially arranged. He then delivered the money to the kidnappers and secure his mother's release.

But before doing that he approached all neighbouring banks and requested them to report anyone who comes in to deposit money having the serial number associated with the notes.

Behold! The first person to be arrested was a police inspector. Another lieutenant in the military was arrested.

Upon investigation, the arrested officers confessed that an assistant commissioner of police was also involved. Pressed further, a top brass in the security was fingered.

Shema threatened to go to press, but he was prevailed upon not to. His money was returned Intact.

With this type of scary stories, one really has to be careful with even your neighbourhood, because those you trusted could turn out to be the once to hurt you the most.

The only way to be your brother's keeper in Nigeria of today is by sharing any security tips that can be of help.

We wish to share with you, some few security tips to guard your daily activities henceforth because the current state of insecurity in the country is really scary.

The only person to trust now in this country is yourself and your unborn baby. Therefore, to avoid being a victim of kidnapping, please read the following tips and share with your loved ones now to save them from harm.

Tip 1. Never use car stickers that says where you work, especially if you have a prestigious job.

Tip 2. Never share pictures of your kids in their school uniforms or badges. Protect your kids!

Tip 3. When you attend parties, don't let the band get you so high that you start spraying money like no man's business, use an envelope.

Tip 4. Don't be the one that tries to empty the ATM machine by making large withdrawals ...You don't need 50k in your wallet to feel like a man.

Tip 5. Always delete your bank transaction notifications, especially SMS...you really can memorize your bank balance....Shred ur POS/ATM receipts.

Tip 6. Don't go jogging while it's dark, you really should be smarter than that. If you can, get someone trusted as company.

Tip 7. Always lock your doors, even if you're only going out to switch off your generator.

Tip 8. NEVER EVER, NEVER EVER WEAR YOUR ID outside your work place. No one needs to know where you work

Tip 9. Be accountable to your spouse or parents, let someone know where you are at every point.

Tip 10. As much as you can, don't send kids alone on errand outside your house, they are soft targets.

Tip 11. Don't try to show you are the richest in the neighborhood by making large donations in your estate meetings, learn modesty.

Tip 12. When you give, give with modesty and privately, learn to say "I can't spare that amount now".

Tip 13. Don't stay late in your office long after closing hours. That deadline work can be done at home.

Tip 14. Make safety the number one factor in your decision always!

Tip 15. Mind what you post about yourself on social media.

The story of OAU Ife and a Candidate denied admission after scoring 320 In JAMB.

Some times ago, a student, Ruke Akor, came to Nairaland to complain about her being denied admission to study Medicine in OAU despite scoring 320 in UME. The story went viral and many other blogs latched onto it.

Few days later, the Provost of the College of Health Sciences in OAU personally logged to Nairaland to respond.

I think I’m impressed by the increasing recognition by leaders in Nigeria that the era of dismissal of informal channels of communication is gone.

Below is the response of the Provost.

My name is Adesegun Fatusi, and I am the Provost of the College of Health Sciences, OAU, Ile-Ife. The case of the Akor Oghenerukewve has just been brought to my notice. To throw more light on her case, I will present the detailed facts here.

With a score of 320, her mark from UTME amounts to 80% (i.e. 320/400 x 100)
Her school cert results are: English A1 (=8 marks); Biology C4 (=5 marks); Chemistry B3 (=6 marks); Maths B3 (=6 marks); Physics C4 (=5 marks); Physics C4 (=5 marks); Further Maths B2 (=7marks), and Civic Educ A1 (=8 marks). That gives her 45 points, or 70.3% (i.e. 44/64×100)

So her overall average – as OAU did a combination of 50% mark from JAMB and 50% mark from School Cert – is: (80+70.3)=75.15% (which we rounded up to 75.2%).

With that mark, she ranks number 103 on the list of the students who took Medicine as first Choice.

The total admission quota for Medicine in OAU is 100, and that includes UTME and Direct Entry).

Clearly although Akor did well, her mark was NOT good enough to earn her admission on merit to read Medicine in Ife. Her mark of 75.2% is clearly below our cut-off mark (which was initially 78%, but we later reduced to 77.7%). Between her mark of 75.2% and 77.7%, by the way, there were 56 other candidates who scored higher than her but did not make the cut-off. For example, two people had 77.6%, two other people had 77.5%, four people had 77.4% etc.
Having presented the detailed facts about Akor’s case, let me also help the many young Nigerians who may be accessing this site with more information on admission as I see a lot of misrepresentation, falsehood, and misunderstanding from the comments that various people had made on this case.

1. Admission into Nigerian Universities are considered on three grounds based on the nationally specified criteria (which I think ought to be reviewed now, by the way):
A. Merit =45% (This covers all candidates from the country – and it is automatic admission once you meet the cut-off mark)
B. Catchment = 35% (this refers to those in the states specified as catchment area for each University: For OAU, that is Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti)
C. Educationally disadvantaged states (ELDS)=20% = This refers to all the 19 Northern States, and Ebonyi, Rivers and Bayelsa.

So, someone from Delta such as Akor with 75.2% will not get admission into Medicine in OAU automatically as she is only considered on merit criterion and she does NOT meet the specified cut-off, but someone with the same mark from Kwara (which is in the North Central zone) may get automatic admission with the same mark based on the consideration of ELDS if 75.2% is the specified cut-off for ELDS for Medicine.

2. When a candidate chooses a highly competitive course like Medicine in a top-rated University like OAU, the competition is very intense. Believe it or not, many of the candidates that made our merit mark had an average of six A1s in school cert coupled with very high UTME mark (above 300). So, a candidate must carefully think over his choice of course and university. For example, if Akor had chosen ANY other course as her first choice for OAU, whe would have made the merit mark and gotten automatic admission, and she would have made the merit mark for Medicine on merit for most Nigerian universities too (but NOT OAU unfortunately).

3. Because of the high demand and competition for very limited spaces, the College of Health Sciences does not consider second choices as a general rule. OAU, for example, was only able to offer admission on UTME platform (Merit + Catchment + ELDS) to less than 3% of her applicants for Medicine, and less than 2% of her applicants for Nursing Science this year.

4. For cases like Akor where the candidate has made a high mark but does not make the cut-off, what the candidate can sometimes do is to come to the University and try and see if he or she can be considered for other courses. A candidate DOES NOT get considered automatically for a course she has not applied to in JAMB. A candidate is ONLY automatically considered for the course he or she has applied for with respect to a particular university.

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Trying to pull off some stunts in the movie prison break.

Grammatical error n blunt rubbish..
Wetin concern person even if he buy a jet...?
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