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The second most sought after University In Nigeria, University Of Benin, which is known as UNIBEN has officially announced that the Result of the just concluded post utme is OUT!
If you participated, follow the below steps to access yours:
1.Go to the result check portal by clicking https://uniben.waeup.org/login
2. Type in your username or ID
3.Type in your password
4.Click on "Login" to access the result
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Prof. Abdul Ganiyu Ambali, the UNILORIN VC has
stated that out of 105,00 candidates applying at
the institution, only 9,000 will be admitted. This is
a relatively poor number, but the institution can’t
go beyond that due to the carrying capacity at
hand.
He further disclosed to journalists on Sunday while
speaking with them that UNILORIN is the most
sought after school in Nigeria followed by
UNIVERSITY OF BENIN, UNIBEN.
The VC identified accommodation as a major
challenge of the
institution, as he stated that though the university
has currently about 30,000 students, it could
provide admission for only about 3,000 of the
students.
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The Kwara state University has released the 2nd
batch Admission List of candidates who have met
the requirements for admission into KWASU and
have been shortlisted to attend Admission
Screening Exercise at Kwara State University,
Malete.
If you see your name, simply download and
complete the screening form placed on the
University''s website. The completed screening form should be brought along with the candidates'
original and photocopies of Credentials and
Certificates of State/Local Government Citizenship.
The screening exercise has been scheduled to hold from Wednesday 30rd - Friday 1st August, 2014 in the University Auditorium, Malete, at 10.00am daily.
To view the list simply click on http://www.kwasu.edu.ng/2014-15%202nd%20Batch%20List.pdf

all student of Uniuyo, the first semester examination is set to commence on the 4th of August 2014.The first examination being GST’s. All student are to make sure that the class admit card are duly signed as well as their fees clearance card, to avoid embarrassment from examiners http://www.schoolmeout.com/uniuyo-first-semester-examinations-20132014

The 2014/2015 Post UTME Screening Exercise of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, FUPRE, earlier scheduled for Saturday 2nd August, 2014 has been rescheduled to Wednesday, 6th August, 2014.
The registration date has also been extended from 28th July, 2014 to 31st July, 2014.
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In the event of the announcement of 28th and 29th July as public holidays; the 2014/2015 post-UTME Screening exercise of the Benue state University (BSU)has been rescheduled.
DAY ONE
Batch ‘A’ Morning Session:Faculty of Social
Sciences
Date:Thursday, 31st July, 2014
Venue:Eastern and Western wings of the Campus
and College of Health Sciences
Final Accreditation:8.00am – 9.00am
Screening Test:10.00am – 11.00am
Batch ‘B’ Afternoon Session:Faculties of Arts,
Education & MBBS
Date:Thursday, 31st July, 2014
Venue: Arts: Eastern Wing of the campus
Education: Western Wing of the campus
MBBS: College of Health Sciences
Final Accreditation:1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Screening Test:3.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.

DAY TWO
Morning Session:Faculties of Management Sciences, Science and Law
Date: Friday, 1st August, 2014
Venue:Mgt. Sciences: Eastern Wing of the campus
Science:stern Wing of the campus
Law:College of Health Sciences
Final Accreditation:8.00am – 9.00am
Screening Test:10.00am – 11.00am
Candidates are to ensure that they are duely
registered online and in their faculties/departments before Thursday 31st July, 2014.
Candidate should come along with:
Online registration slip with recent passport affixed, duely signed in the faculty/department.
H.B. Pencil, Sharpener and Eraser.
That's the new time table.
It means that The new date now is July 31st - 1st August,2014.

After the twin bomb blast and 24 hours curfew that
was imposed in the state, Kaduna State University
has postponed its 1st semester examination.
Examinations shall continue on Wednesday,
immediately after the Sallah break is concluded,
said the school management.
Take note of this change, Students.
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19 Nigerian Students Awarded Scholarship by the
Australian Government to do their master degree
programme in Australia by 2015.
“The Australian government is encouraging
Nigerians interested in studying abroad to consider
Australia as an option, given the strong
record and high quality of our universities and
tertiary institutions .” said the Australian High
Commissioner to Nigeria, Jonathan Richardson
who also said that between 2010 and 2014, more
than 200 scholarship awards had been granted
Nigerian students, including 86 for postgraduate
studies by the Australian government.
A new round of Australia Awards would open for
applications in September,2014. he said.
Stay tuned !

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Federal Government says Monday 28th
and Tuesday 29th July 2014 as public
Holidays to celebrate the muslim feast
of Eid-el-fitri.
A statement issued on Wednesday in
Abuja by the minister of Interior, Abba
Moro, proved this.
Nigerians were urged to seize the
opportunity of the holidays to reflect on
the imperative of peace in nation
building.
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UNIZIK 2014/2015 Post UTME Details.

Nnamdi Azikiwe University has scheduled its 2014/2015 Post UTME Screening Exercise for candidates who chose the University as first choice.
Candidates who may not have made the
University first choice but who wish to be considered for admission into degree programmes of the Enugu State College of Education (Technical) , Federal College of Education(Technical), Umunze
and Pope John Paul II Major Seminary, Okpuno
(Philosophy), which are affiliate institutions of the
University, may also apply.

ELIGIBILITY

UNIZIK post utme 2014 is for candidates must have made Nnamdi Azikiwe University their first choice and scored 180/or above in UTME. Candidates who did not make the University first choice but wish to be considered for the degree awarding programmes of the Enugu State College of Education (Technical), Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze and Pope John Paul II Major Seminary, Okpuno are eligible to apply.

METHOD OF APPLICATION

Interested candidates are to register online at the
University’s portal <a href="http://my.unizik.edu.ng">here</> or go to
www.unizik.edu.ng for the link to the above portal.
The pin codes for registration can be obtained from branches of any of the following banks, on the payment of the sum of N2,000.00 (Two Thousand Naira) only: Access Bank, Diamond Bank, Enterprise Bank, Fidelity Bank, First Bank, GTB, Zenith Bank, UBA.Candidates are to print their examination slip online at the University’s Portal my.unizik.edu.ng/postutme using their JAMB Registration numbers.
Candidates who did not make the University first
choice but wish to be considered for the degree
awarding programmes of the Enugu State College of Education (Technical), Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze or Pope John Paul II Seminary, Okpuno should register at Bursary Department of the University in Awka only with (2) passport photographs.

SCREENING DATE

The unizik post utme screening exercise will hold
from Tuesday 12th to Saturday 16th August, 2014.
The screening details are as follows;
1) Tuesday, 12th August, 2014: i. Medicine ii.
Health Sciences and Technology iii. Pharmacy iv.
Basic Medical Sciences.
2) Wednesday, 13th August, 2014: i. Management
Sciences.
3) Thursday, 14th August, 2014: i. Social Sciences
ii. Arts.
4) Friday, 15th August, 2014: i. Engineering ii.
Environmental Sciences iii. Physical Sciences.
5) Saturday, 16th August, 2014: i. Law ii. Education
iii. Biosciences iv. Agriculture v. Affiliate
Institutions: Federal College of Education
(Technical), Umunze; Enugu State College of
Education (Technical); Pope John Paul II Major
Seminary, Okpuno.
Accreditation of candidates commences at 8.00
a.m. each day.
Candidates are to report with:
a. Two (2) copies of their online printed slips.
b. HB pencil and eraser.
c. of JAMB Slip showing their photographs and
JAMB online Result (2 copies each).

RESTRICTIONS
a. No cell phones shall be allowed in the screening
halls.
b. Only bona-fide candidates shall be allowed into
the University.
c. Parents and guardians are, therefore, strongly
advised against attempting to enter the University
Campus. Security shall be tight.
d. Candidates who did not register online shall not
be admitted for the screening exercise.
e. The University will not be liable for any payment
made with wrong JAMB registration number at the
Bank;
f. The University shall also not be liable to any
fraudulent payments made anywhere that are not in
line with the directives of the University.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Registration commences on Thursday 24th July,
2014 and end on Thursday 7th August, 2014.

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The steps taken by National University
Commission (NUC) to ensure that its
citezens get the best ever education has
Led to the closure of The Evangel
University of America and Clinton
University Study Centre, Ojokoro.
At the Evangel University Of
America a fourbedroom flat
located at 2, Akinola Street,
Olufemi Estate, Egan,
Igando, the NUC officials
who were accompanied by
the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related
Offenses Commission (ICPC)
and the operators of the
State Security Service (SSS)
arrested the one Dr. Philip
Nnaji who was said to be
the bursar of the school.
According to Dr. Nnaji he
was not aware that the
institution which was an
affiliate of an American
based University has no
license from the
appropriate agencies to
operate in Nigeria.
It was learnt that the school
has been awarding
diploma, degrees and post
graduate degrees in
Theology.
source http://www.schoolmeout.com/two-illegal-varsities-closed-lagos-nuc/

A heart breaking news arises at UNN as
Undergraduates Violently Confront their
Post-graduate Counterparts.
University of Nigeria Nsukka
undergraduates on Saturday night
engaged their Post-graduate
counterparts in a squabble which
almost degenerated to a free-for–all-
fight.
The problem started when some
undergraduate
male hostel occupants started
protesting to register their grievances
over the fact that they have not had
electric power supply in their hostels
for over a week. They thus demanded
that all generators should be put off.
As senior is always senior, the
postgraduate male hostel occupants
refused, which led to a fight as they in
turn attacked them.
This infuriated the undergraduates who
started
destroying everything on sight around
the PG male
hostel, cars parked outside the
postgraduate male
hostels had their windscreens
shattered, and stones were seen flying
in the air as both engaged one another.
As if it has ended, the UG blocked the
PG entrance in the morning and said
they should remain inside arrested.
It finally took the intervention of
the Police and Military personnel
to bring the situation under
control.
source http://www.schoolmeout.com/problem-unn-undergraduates-violently-confront-post-graduate-counterparts/

A heart breaking news arises at UNN as
Undergraduates Violently Confront their
Post-graduate Counterparts.
University of Nigeria Nsukka
undergraduates on Saturday night
engaged their Post-graduate
counterparts in a squabble which
almost degenerated to a free-for–all-
fight.
The problem started when some
undergraduate
male hostel occupants started
protesting to register their grievances
over the fact that they have not had
electric power supply in their hostels
for over a week. They thus demanded
that all generators should be put off.
As senior is always senior, the
postgraduate male hostel occupants
refused, which led to a fight as they in
turn attacked them.
This infuriated the undergraduates who
started
destroying everything on sight around
the PG male
hostel, cars parked outside the
postgraduate male
hostels had their windscreens
shattered, and stones were seen flying
in the air as both engaged one another.
As if it has ended, the UG blocked the
PG entrance in the morning and said
they should remain inside arrested.
It finally took the intervention of
the Police and Military personnel
to bring the situation under
control.
source http://www.schoolmeout.com/problem-unn-undergraduates-violently-confront-post-graduate-counterparts/

Candidates who scored 180 and above
in JAMB are invited to UNIOSUN
2014/2015 Post UTME screening
exercise. The screening exercise will
hold on Saturday 2nd, August 2014 at
10.00 am for candidates who chose
Osun State University as their 1st
choice, with a minimum score of 180.
However, candidates that scored less
than 200
would not be considered for admission
into any of
the under-listed programmes:
Accounting
Economics
Political Science
Law
Also, candidates that are interested in
the following
programmes but did not choose
UNIOSUN can also
apply: Nursing, Public Health, Guidance
and
Counseling, Educational Management.
SPECIAL NOTICE:
The University is not admitting
candidates for MBBS
(Medicine) programme for the
2013/2014 academic
session. Candidates for the MBBS
programme may
wish to change to any of the
programmes in the
University for which they are qualified
or apply for a
change of institution to other
Universities.
COMPLETION OF APPLICATION FORMS
Candidates are to register on-line by
accessing the
University website: http://
www.uniosun.edu.ng or
the Post UTME portal at http://
postutme.uniosun.edu.ng to complete
and submit
an application. They are expected to
print two (2)
copies of the application form after
submission. One
of these two copies should be brought
along
together with a copy of the candidate’s
UTME score
print-out on the day of the screening
exercise. The
second copy is to be submitted upon
admission to
the University.
DIRECT ENTRY CANDIDATES
Direct Entry candidates should
complete the form
on-line following the same process as
above and
report on the screening day. They are
also expected
to forward their Academic Transcript to
the
Registrar of Osun State University.
SCREENING CENTRES
All candidates (UTME and Direct Entry)
are to report
for screening at the date and centres
indicated on
their online registration printout.
Candidates must
report at least one hour before the
commencement
of the exercise.
ACCESS TO THE REGISTRATION PORTAL
Option 1: Visit the Uniosun Post UTME
Portal via
http://www.uniosun.edu.ng or http://
postutme.uniosun.edu.ng. This will take
you to the
online Application Platform. Ensure you
read all
registration guidelines and instructions
before
proceeding to register.
Payment of five thousand naira (N5,
000.00) for the
Post UTME online Application is
through the
UNIOSUN WebPAY platform using
Interswitch
enabled Debit/ATM cards (MasterCard
and Verve).
Option 2: Access to the portal can also
be through
the use of scratch cards with PIN.
Candidates
require two scratch cards (one each for
registration
and result/placement checking), which
are
obtainable directly from any of the
following specific
branches of banks listed below, upon
payment of
five thousand naira (N5, 000.00) into the
account:
BANK: FIRST BANK, GBONGAN ROAD,
OSOGBO
ACCOUNT NAME:OSUN STATE
UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT NO.:2010794577
BANK:MAINSTREET BANK, (OLD
AFRIBANK) OSOGBO
ACCOUNT NAME:OSUN STATE
UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT NO:6000008755
BANK:WEMA BANK, STATION ROAD
OSOGBO
ACCOUNT NAME:OSUN STATE
UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT NO:0121795997
BANK:ECOBANK, GBONGAN ROAD,
OSOGBO
ACCOUNT NAME:OSUN STATE
UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT NO:2782021070
BANK:SKYE BANK FAGBEWESA,
OSOGBO
ACCOUNT NAME:OSUN STATE
UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT NO:1770745358
BANK:FIDELITY BANK, GBONGAN ROAD
OSOGBO
ACCOUNT NAME:OSUN STATE
UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT NO:5030018426
BANK:WEMA BANK, OKUKU
ACCOUNT NAME:OSUN STATE
UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT NO:0122026678
BANK:ZENITH BANK, OSOGBO
ACCOUNT NAME:OSUN STATE
UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT NO:1011776753
BANK:U.B.A II, OSOGBO
ACCOUNT NAME:OSUN STATE
UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT NO:1007306203
NOTE: On-line registration facilities are
available at
the Computer Laboratories in all the
campuses for a
token fee for candidates that had
purchased their
scratch cards from any of the above
listed banks
CLOSING DATE: Submission of forms
closes at
12.00 noon on Friday 1st August, 2014.
click http://postutme.uniosun.edu.ng/ to
go to the portal
J. O. Faniran, Phd
Registrar
source http://www.schoolmeout.com/uniosun-20142015-post-utme-details/

This should be a warning to everybody against flooding And the risk of not protecting yourself.
A senior Lecturer of the
Federal Polytechnic Offa ,
Adeniyi Adebowale was last
Thursday killed in his
car by a violent flood
resulting from the heavy
rainfall that fell that day in
Oke Gada community, in
Ede, the headquarters of
Ede North local
government area of Osun
State.
According to report the 45-
year old lecturer of the
Department of Computer
Science was coming back
home and was already close
to his residence when the
daring flood immersed the
car he was in.
It was learnt that the
deceased was warned by
other road users against
using the swampy road
but he objected before the
ugly incident happened.
The corpse has since been
deposited in a mortuary.
more at http://www.schoolmeout.com/offa-poly-lecturer-killed-flood/

Facebook, the world most used docial network introduces a new echnology called facebook mentions.
Nearly 800 million people are connected to public figures on Facebook, and interacting with athletes, musicians, actors and other influencers is an important part of their experience. From
cheering on World Cup players to checking out updates from favorite celebrities, there are more than a billion interactions between public figures
and their fans on Facebook every week.
We want to make these interactions even better.
Today, we’re introducing Facebook Mentions, a new Facebook Creative Labs app that makes it easy for public figures to talk with their fans and each other on the go. As a public figure, Facebook Mentions lets you: See what fans are saying about you and join the conversation.
Share your story by posting updates, sharing photos or videos, or hosting a live Q&A.
Join popular conversations on Facebook and see the latest posts from people you follow.
Get streamlined notifications about your posts, including mentions from other influencers or the media.
Mentions is currently only available for people with verified Pages in the US. We plan to roll out to more countries and verified Profiles in the coming months. If you are an admin of a verified Page, you can request access to Mentions directly. If you are a public figure, you can also download the iPhone app to request
access.<img src="https://fbnewsroomus.files./2014/07/introducingmentions_2.png?w=960&h=640" alt="facebook mentions" /><img src="https://fbnewsroomus.files./2014/07/introducingmentions_1.png?w=960" alt="a mention" /><img src="https://fbnewsroomus.files./2014/07/introducingmentions_5.png?w=960&h=640" alt="Your report" />

source= Facebook blog page and http://www.schoolmeout.com/FORUMS/topic/facebook-introduces-mentions-a-new-app-for-public-figures

We’re excited to announce we’ve agreed to acquire CardSpring, a payments infrastructure company that helps merchants work with leading publishers to create online-to-offline promotions.

Twitter has always been a vibrant environment for users to discover product recommendations and promotions from artists, experts, brands and friends. In fact, we’ve already given users the ability to get deals and discounts, surprise someone with a coffee, or even add items to their online shopping cart — all directly from a Tweet. As we work on the future of commerce on Twitter, we’re confident the CardSpring team and the technology they’ve built are a great fit with our philosophy regarding the best ways to bring in-the-moment commerce experiences to our users.

We’ll have more information on our commerce direction in the future. Meanwhile, check out the CardSpring blog post for more on today’s news.
more at http://www.schoolmeout.com/FORUMS/topic/twitter-welcomes-cardspring-team/
culled from twitter blog’s page

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FIFA has lifted the ban it placed on Nigeria on
July 9th after a high court sitting in Jos sacked
the President of the Nigerian Football Federation,
NFF, Aminu Maigari and other board members.
FIFA had frowned at the court ruling, stating that
the move was a government interference in
football activities which is against its policy. FIFA
then directed that a new court order reinstating
Maigari and other NFF executives be obtained
before it can lift the ban.
The new court order reinstating the NFF President
and other executives was obtained two days ago,
Tuesday July 15th, hence the lifting of the ban
today.
Maigari and his board will resume their duties
tomorrow and stay there until next month's
elections when they could be sacked through the
ballot, in line with FIFA's policies.

http://lindaikeji..com/2014/07/fifa-lifts-ban-on-nigeria.html?m=1

Dear moderator, I see this post yo worth front page : https://www.nairaland.com/1817169/each-ac-car-user-must

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To Each AC Car user,Now this is very interesting & MUST READ , as it's for HEALTH !...Car's manual says to roll down the windows to let out all the hot air before turning on the A/C. WHY ?

No wonder more folks are dying from cancer than ever before. We wonder where this stuff comes from, but here is an example that
explains a lot of the cancer-causing incidents.

Many people are in their cars the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, 7 days a week.

Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car.

Open the windows after you enter your car and then after a couple of minutes, turn ON the AC .

Here's why: According to research, the car's dashboard, seats, a/c ducts, in fact ALL of the plastic objects in your vehicle, emit Benzene,
a Cancer causing toxin. A BIG CARCINOGEN. Take the time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car when you open it,
and BEFORE you start it up.

In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anaemia and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure can
cause Leukemia and increases the risk of some cancers. It can also cause miscarriages in pregnant women.

The "acceptable" Benzene level indoors is: 50mg per sq.ft.

A car parked indoors, with windows closed, will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene - 8 times the acceptable level.

If parked outdoors in the sun, at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level.

People who get into the car, keeping the windows closed, will eventually INHALE excessive amounts of the BENZENE toxin.

Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidneys and liver. What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.

So friends, please open the windows and doors of your car - give it some time for the interior to air out
-(dispel the deadly stuff) - before you enter the vehicle.

Thought: 'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

Continue reading at http://www.schoolmeout.com/FORUMS/topic/1085/

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bosunng: Hello Everyone, I need help with a project I am doing. Please read through, anyone can help give ideas, solutions or suggestions.

About the project: I am in the process of trying to build an Online Website using Wordpress for my Bridal Shop that I own.
I need members to be able to login and then pay or go on a subscription to rent or buy the product (wedding dress) for a limited amount of time which they will then come pick up in person from our shop with their receipt showing that they have paid for the product and then when their product time ends they get emailed (to their wordpress user email) that time is out and they have to either bring back or renew their product.

That is giving you a basis of what I am building, now what I really need help with in the project is creating the rent product part. Is anyone able to give me some solutions on how I can set-up a product rental system using wordpress plugins, themes and if needed custom coding, or what applications or plugins there are that can help me with this.

NOTE: They are either to Rent or Buy the product. When they click rent, they pay a different price and when they click buy, they pay a different price.

Thanks so much, I need all the help I can get..
Great Wordpress Community by the way

Try woo commerce WordPress plugin. You will need to create a two different page. one will be a 'buy' page and the other will be 'rent' page. You then go ahead and utilize the plugin. You can also do the same on the home page, then design a two button image: hyperlink one to be rent and the other to be buy.I also have genesis premium themes for sale that will look great for the thing at much discounted prices.

but let me know: will the person need to pay online using PayPal or credit card or will it be bank payment? If it is the earlier, a confirmation e mail will be sent to the person. If it's the later, he will need to come with the deposit slip.
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It is Revealed that Smelling Farts can Prevent Cancer & Heart Attacks


You may want to thank your friends or family when next they fart near you.

Time reports that scientists at the University of Exeter claim that smelling farts could actually prevent cancer, among other diseases.



In the statement by the university, Dr. Mark Wood says, “Although hydrogen sulfide gas” – produced when bacteria breaks down food – “is well known as a pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs and flatulence, it is naturally produced in the body and could in fact be a healthcare hero with significant implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases.”

Another scientist Professor Matt Whiteman who worked on the study to be published in the Medicinal Chemistry Communications Journal, said “We have exploited this natural process by making a compound, called AP39, which slowly delivers very small amounts of this gas specifically to the mitochondria.”

They say that although a full release may be noxious, a whiff has the power to reduce risks of cancer, strokes, heart attacks, arthritis, and dementia by preserving mitochondria.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS ) seems to
have the Midas touch. Seemingly
everything the Seattle bookseller’s cloud
infrastructure division introduces ends up
being category-leading. That’s awesome
for Amazon but pretty horrid for all those
left in the wake of the juggernaut. The
latest (and, admittedly, entirely natural)
area for AWS to introduce product in is
the burgeoning Mobile Backend as a
Service (MBaaS) area. Essentially all these
tools aim to help mobile developers move
on from reinventing the wheel. Instead of
having to rebuild core mobile
functionality for every single application,
MBaaS lets developers abstract the
“undifferentiated heavy lifting” or in
other words the stuff that they have to do
that adds no real value to the app.
I spent some time taking a briefing on the
offering with the head of the MBaaS
product team, Jinesh Varia. As an aside,
only 12 months ago analyst briefings and
NDA advice of product announcements
from AWS were completely unheard of.
AWS has, in that time, built up an
excellent analyst relations team. While
this is a small part of truly becoming an
enterprise vendor, it is a critical part of
the process. It’s refreshing to see AWS
move in this direction. Anyway, on to the
announcement......
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Varia told me that, like other AWS
products, the development team has been
driven by observing how their customers
were utilizing AWS’ services. Obviously a
vast number of developers building upon
AWS use a number of different solutions
to create mobile applications. AWS
noticed a significant amount of reworking
whereby customers would have to spend
time and effort recreating the same basic
building blocks for their applications.
AWS is in the habit of giving developers
tools to remove these basic jobs from
their workflow and in doing so allows
them to focus on key deliverables.
Removing the “undifferentiated heavy
lifting” as AWS loves to say.
There are three key announcements in
terms of the MBaaS product offering:
Amazon Cognito, Amazon Mobile
Analytics and Amazon SNS Mobile Push.
Looking at each of these in turn:
Amazon Cognito fills the identity
management and authorization, data
synchronization and offline access
problem spaces. The identity and access
management components are currently
integrated with Facebook , Google
GOOGL -0.29% + and Amazon itself. In
terms of cross-device and cross platform
sync, Cognito enables offline support by
storing data in an SQLLite local database
when no connectivity exists. When
connectivity is restored, data sync
happens back to the cloud. Finally, and in
an interesting twist, AWS allows for
unauthenticated identities in order to
help create a better user experience and
easier on boarding. Another benefit of
unauthenticated access is that it provides
opportunities for connected devices (as
opposed to connected users) to access
cloud services.
Amazon analytics is an analytical service
designed for mobile and powered by
AWS’ other analytics platforms. It
generates rapid reports and enables
reports to be generated across millions of
individual users. In a comment that can
only be seen as a thinly veiled barb at
Google, AWS points out that its analytics
service does not aggregate user data and
hence the customers have sole, unfettered
access to their own data. The analytics
come with a host of standard measures
that are useful to developers, Monthly
Active Users, Daily Active Users, Daily
Sessions, Average Revenue etc. Users can
also track custom event types.
Finally AWS is introducing SNS Mobile
Push. Using the product, developers or
their applications can send push
notifications seamlessly across multiple
platforms globally. SNS Push works across
iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and Windows
platforms.
In terms of pricing, Cognito is free for less
than one million syncs per month with
10GB of storage, although this is limited
to new customers only and only for a 12
months period. Mobile Analytics is free
for 100 million events per month and SNS
Mobile Push is free for one million push
message per month. Paid plans are
available for higher requirements but this
generous free tier is an indication that
AWS sees this more as a way to keep
people on its platform than it is to
generate meaningful incremental revenue.
I did have some questions about the
offering. Firstly, where are the native
integrations with different location-based
services? Location is a key value
proposition of mobile apps and I’d have
liked to have seen something location
based here. I also suspect that a
significant proportion of AWS’ customers
would respond well to a packaged rather
than componentized MBaaS offering –
while AWS prides itself on offering
everything as a module, MBaaS is one
area that a more packaged offering makes
sense. This was a theme that Staves
Sridhar, CEO of MBaaS vendor Kinvey
reiterated when he said that:
Indeed. Notwithstanding any competitive
landscape issues, these offerings are yet
another compelling driver for AWS to
gain new, and keep existing, customers.
It’s hard to compete with someone so
crazily successful as the Amazon
powerhouse.
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https://www.nairaland.com/1815801/blood-types-why#24739091

It treats why we have blood types. Very educational. Do publish to front page

At the point when my guardians told me that my blood type was A+, I felt an odd feeling of pride. On the off chance that A+ was the top grade in school, then without a doubt A+ was likewise the best of blood types – a biological mark of distinction.

It didn’t take long for me to perceive exactly how senseless that inclination was and pack it down. Be that as it may I didn’t learn substantially all the more about what it truly looks like to have A+ blood. When I was a grown-up, all I truly knew was that in the event that I ought to wind up in a clinic in need of blood, the specialists there would need to verify they transfused me with a suitable sort. Though i don not accept Blood Transfusions for Biblical Reasons, As the bible condemns it.

But there stayed some bothering inquiries. Why do 40% of Caucasians have type A blood, while just 27% of Asians do? Where do distinctive blood types originate from, and what do they do? To get a few replies, I went to the experts – to hematologists, geneticists, evolutionary biologists, virologists and nutrition scientists.

In 1900 the Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner first discovered blood types, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research in 1930. Since then scientists have developed ever more powerful tools for probing the biology of blood types. They’ve found some intriguing clues about them – tracing their deep ancestry, for example, and detecting influences of blood types on our health. And yet I found that in many ways blood types remain strangely mysterious. Scientists have yet to come up with a good explanation for their very existence.

“Isn’t it amazing?” says Ajit Varki, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego. “Almost a hundred years after the Nobel Prize was awarded for this discovery, we still don’t know exactly what they’re for.”

Transfusion confusion

My knowledge that I’m type A comes to me thanks to one of the greatest discoveries in the history of medicine. Because doctors are aware of blood types, they can save lives by transfusing blood into patients. But for most of history, the notion of putting blood from one person into another was a feverish dream.

Renaissance doctors mused about what would happen if they put blood into the veins of their patients. Some thought that it could be a treatment for all manner of ailments, even insanity. Finally, in the 1600s, a few doctors tested out the idea, with disastrous results. A French doctor injected calf’s blood into a madman, who promptly started to sweat and vomit and produce urine the colour of chimney soot. After another transfusion the man died.

Such calamities gave transfusions a bad reputation for 150 years. Even in the 19th Century only a few doctors dared try out the procedure. One of them was a British physician named James Blundell. Like other physicians of his day, he watched many of his female patients die from bleeding during childbirth. After the death of one patient in 1817, he found he couldn’t resign himself to the way things were.
“I could not forbear considering, that the patient might very probably have been saved by transfusion,” he later wrote.

Blundell became convinced that the earlier disasters with blood transfusions had come about thanks to one fundamental error: transfusing “the blood of the brute”, as he put it. Doctors shouldn’t transfer blood between species, he concluded, because “the different kinds of blood differ very importantly from each other”.

Human patients should only get human blood, Blundell decided. But no one had ever tried to perform such a transfusion. Blundell set about doing so by designing a system of funnels and syringes and tubes that could channel blood from a donor to an ailing patient. After testing the apparatus out on dogs, Blundell was summoned to the bed of a man who was bleeding to death. “Transfusion alone could give him a chance of life,” he wrote.

Several donors provided Blundell with 14oz (0.4kg) of blood, which he injected into the man’s arm. After the procedure the patient told Blundell that he felt better – “less fainty” – but two days later he died.

Still, the experience convinced Blundell that blood transfusion would be a huge benefit to mankind, and he continued to pour blood into desperate patients in the following years. All told, he performed 10 blood transfusions. Only four patients survived.

While some other doctors experimented with blood transfusion as well, their success rates were also dismal. Various approaches were tried, including attempts in the 1870s to use milk in transfusions (which were, unsurprisingly, fruitless and dangerous).

Prize discovery

Blundell was correct in believing that humans should only get human blood. But he didn’t know another crucial fact about blood: that humans should only get blood from certain other humans. It’s likely that Blundell’s ignorance of this simple fact led to the death of some of his patients. What makes those deaths all the more tragic is that the discovery of blood types, a few decades later, was the result of a fairly simple procedure.

The first clues as to why the transfusions of the early 19th Century had failed were clumps of blood. When scientists in the late 1800s mixed blood from different people in test tubes, they noticed that sometimes the red blood cells stuck together. But because the blood generally came from sick patients, scientists dismissed the clumping as some sort of pathology not worth investigating. Nobody bothered to see if the blood of healthy people clumped, until Karl Landsteiner wondered what would happen. Immediately, he could see that mixtures of healthy blood sometimes clumped too.

Landsteiner set out to map the clumping pattern, collecting blood from members of his lab, including himself. He separated each sample into red blood cells and plasma, and then he combined plasma from one person with cells from another.
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candidates who
made the University their 1st Choice in the 2014
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME),
and had a total score of 180 and above to a
Screening Exercise.
The Schedule of the Post-UTME Screening Exercise
is as shown below:
SCHEDULE FOR POST-UTME SCREENING EXERCISE:
2014/2015 SESSION
DAY 1: MONDAY, JULY 28, 2014
SLOT: Slot 1
TIME: 8.00a.m.
Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences
Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology
Faculty of Clinical Sciences
Medicine & Surgery (MBBS)
Faculty of Pharmacy
Pharmacy
Faculty of Agriculture
Agric. Economics & Extension, Animal Science,
Crop Science,
Fisheries & Aquaculture, Food Science &
Technology, Forestry& Wildlife, Home Economics,
Soil Science
DAY 2: TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2014
SLOT: 1
TIME:8.am
Faculty of Science
Botany & Ecological Studies, Chemistry, Computer
Science,
Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics, Statistics,
Zoology
Faculty of Environmental Studies
Architecture, Building, Estate Management, Fine &
Industrial
Arts, Geoinformatics & Surveying, Quantity
Surveying, Urban
& Regional Planning.
Faculty of Engineering
Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering,
Computer
Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Food
Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering,
Petroleum Engineering
DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014
SLOT: 1
TIME:8.am
Faculty of Law
Law
Faculty of Arts
Communication Arts, English, Efik/Ibibio, French,
History
& Intl Studies, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy,
Religious &
Cultural Studies, Theatre Arts
DAY 4: THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2014
SLOT: 1
TIME: 8.am
Faculty of Business Administration
Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business
Management,
Insurance, Marketing
Faculty of Social Sciences
Economics, Geography & Regional Planning,
Political
Science & Public Administration, Sociology & &
Anthropology, Psychology
Anthropology, Psychology
DAY 4: THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2014
SLOT: 2
TIME: 12.Noon
Faculty of Education
Accounting Ed., Agricultural Ed., Biology Ed.,
Chemistry
Ed., Computer Sc. Ed., Econs Ed., Efik/Ibiobio Ed.,
English Ed., Fine Arts Ed., French Ed., Geography
Ed.,
Guidance & Counselling Ed., Health Edu., History
Ed.,
Home Economics Ed., Integrated Sc. Ed., Library
Sc.,
Mathematics Ed., Physical Ed., Physics Ed., Political
Science Ed., Pre-primary & Primary Ed., Religion
Ed.,
Social Studies Ed., Special Ed., Technical Education
(Auto/Metal Technology, Elect/Elec. Technology
Ed.,Wood/Building Technology)
REQUIREMENTS
(A) Eligible candidates should pay the sum of
2,000.00 (two thousand naira)only and obtain a PIN
Transaction Receipt which should contain a PIN
code at the following Banks nationwide:
(i) University of Uyo Microfinance Bank
(ii) Zenith Bank PLC
(iii) Skye Bank PLC
(iv) United Bank for Africa (UBA) PLC
(v) First Bank PLC
(vi) WEMA Bank PLC
(vii) Ecobank PLC
Note: The same PIN Code will be used to access
the result of the Screening Test from the internet.
Candidates must provide their names and JAMB
registration numbers to the Bank during payment.
(B) With the PIN Code, candidates should access
and complete the University of Uyo 2014 Post-
UTME Screening Exercise Form online at http://
www.uniuyo.edu.ng
From the E-portal solutions navigation menu
applying the following steps:
- Click the Post-UTME e-portal link.
- From the quick links/Account login menu bar.
- Select Post-UTME Account login link.
- Login with your UTME registration Number and
PIN Code.
- Fill the Post-UTME form and upload a recent
passport size photograph (scanned), with red
background. Webcam photograph will not be
accepted.
- Submit the online application form and print out a
copy of the examination schedule slip.
Note: (i) The same passport photograph used for
the online registration will be used during the
Screening Exercise and for registration after the offer
of
admission.
(ii) No complaint of wrong Bio-Data or blank
photograph will be entertained after submission.
(iii) Candidates who up-load wrong bio-data will
automatically be disqualified.
(C) Candidates are required to come for the
Screening Exercise with the following items:
(i) Four (4) copies of the University of Uyo 2014
ON-LINE registration form dully completed with the
passport-size photograph printed in colour.
Note: Only colour printout will be accepted.
(ii) 2014 JAMB (UTME) result print out(you are
advised to go with the one that bears your passport
photograph on it,
(iii) Four (4) recent passport-size photographs on
red background (same photograph as the one used
for the on-line registration) with the name, UTME
registration number, with signature of the candidate
on the reverse side of the photographs.
These should be packaged in quarto-size envelope
and labeled with name, department and JAMB
registration number.
(iv) HB pencil, eraser and sharpener.
(D) No GSM handsets, calculators or any other
extraneous materials should be brought into the
screening halls.
Venue: The Screening Exercise will hold at the
University of Uyo , Town Campus and Town
Campus Annex on the specified dates.
Examination venues will be displayed at the gates.
Closing Date: The closing date for registration is
July 25, 2014 at midnight.
Note: Only candidates who comply with the
registration procedures outlined above will be
allowed to undergo the Screening Exercise.
Signed
Mrs. Edak U. Umondak
REGISTRAR

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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) has called off the 10 month old strike and has ordered all polytechnics nationwide to resume on Tuesday, 15th July, 2014.
The strike which started in October 2013 was suspended today Saturday July 12th the National Executive Council of the association.
The ASUP strike was called off at the National
Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the union held in Abuja, following an agreement reached by the ASUP management and the new minister for education 2 days ago. Students can now feel relieved of staying at home any longer.
The ASUP leadership held what it termed a fruitful meeting with the newly sworn in Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau on Thursday July 10th.
All polytechnic students are by this notice advised
to get ready to resume school ASAP.
Do you think this new minister will make things better by this first positive?

http://www.schoolmeout.com/asup-suspends-10-month-old-strike-polytechnics-resume-tuesday/