₦airaland Forum

By Laide Akinboade
Abuja —The Federal Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in the tertiary education sub-sector have agreed on N2,500 as the fee for post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, screening.
This is contained in a statement issued by Prof. Michael Faborode, the Secretary-General, Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, AVCNU, yesterday in Abuja.
Faborode said the agreement was reached after a deliberation of officials of the ministry, federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.
The secretary-general said it was agreed that the post-UTME screening should be sustained following the scrapping of the Computer Based Test, CBT.
“From the statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan at the meeting, there is no objection to screening by universities as long as it is not another CBT.
“She agreed that universities should advertise and the maximum fee that should be charged for the screening should be N2,500 - bank charges inclusive.”
According to the statement, the association will formally convey its stance to the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu.
Adamu’s recent announcement of the ban on post-UTME had raised anxiety among stakeholders.

www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/education-ministry-stakeholders-agree-n2500-post-utme-fee/

lalasticlala, mynd44

He died at the Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, Harefield, Middlesex, in the United Kingdom Wednesday afternoon after a prolonged illness.
Sources at the Palace of Sultan of Sokoto indicate that the deceased passed away in the company of his wives, children and extended family members.
Mr. Shinkafi, who held the traditional title of Marafan Sokoto, was a native of Zamfara State.
He was a Federal Commissioner of Internal Affairs and a presidential aspirant in the third Republic. He also had an extensive career in military intelligence.
“The body will be flown back to Nigeria tomorrow for burial at Abubakar III burial ground in Sokoto,” one source said yesterday.
Mr. Shinkafi is survived by three wives, and five children. One of his daughters is Zainab, wife of Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, and another is Hadiza, the wife of Zamfara governor, AbdulAzeez Yari.

Shinkafi would be remembered for his pioneering role in the creation of the National Security Organisation, NSO, the secretive security arm of the Nigerian security apparatus which he headed from 1999 till 1983.

Following his retirement from the police and the NSO, Shinkafi, a trained lawyer, entered into business and eventually into politics and was one of the leading lights of the conservative side of Nigerian politics in the ill-fated Third Republic.
His bid for the presidency in the Third Republic led him to the formation of the defunct Nigerian National Congress, NNC which eventually collapsed into the National Republican Convention, NRC.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the government and people of Sokoto State on the passing of former Federal Commissioner of Internal Affairs, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi.

In a statement by Mr. Femi Adesina, the presidential spokesman, President Buhari described the departed politician, administrator and technocrat, as an expert whose contributions to the development of the security architecture of Nigeria would remain indelible, adding that others carried on where he left off.

Hon. Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, also commiserated with the government and people of Zamfara State and all Nigerians over the death of Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, Marafan Sokoto.
Dogara, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Turaki Hassan, in Lagos, described the death of the elderstatesman as a huge loss to the nation.
He said Shinkafi was a true democrat who contributed immensely towards the restoration of democracy in Nigeria in 1999.

“In all his years in the public service, Shinkafi distinguished himself as a patriot, committed and dedicated Nigerian,” the speaker said.
In a message of condolence issued in Sokoto by his spokesman, Malam Imam Imam, Governor Aminu Tambuwal described Shinkafi as a distinguished legal luminary, security expert, politician with conscience and great community leader and mobiliser.

“Marafa’s death has closed a chapter in the life of one of Nigeria’s most valuable public officers, who made his mark in both public and private sectors. He was a truly passionate Nigerian whose invaluable contributions to issues of national interest will be greatly missed.
"His law office served as training ground for many aspiring lawyers in Sokoto State and beyond.


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lalasticlala , mynd44

ok

get your gf pad, tissue, dettol, soap , perfume and ankerchief get lots of it.

call his mother? who wouldn't know she is lying?

halfricanadian:
Wat happened to enrolling her into a catering school

Nd make ur wife ur personal edible catering

What had she been doing in her teen years? i will be worried about getting food on the table and her domestic problems?

What man will deal with such crap?

No! what is her use then? just to reproduce babies only?
In fact no room for her to learn in my house.

his office is between cossy's boobs

Bleaching has come to stay won bi iya yan!

Frontpage please