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Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has urged the Golden Eaglets to create record for themselves and Nigeria by winning U-17 World Cup title for the fifth time.

General-Secretary of NFF, Mohammed Sanusi, gave the charge in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.


Sanusi said that victory by the Eaglets in Sunday’s final of the tournament in Chile would also be a record for President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to him, Buhari will make history by receiving the trophy as a civilian president, 30 years after he received it as a military head of state, when the Eaglets won the maiden edition of the tournament in 1985 in China.

The young Nigerians on Thursday set up an all-African final with Mali after defeating Mexico 4-2 in one of the semi-final encounters.

Sanusi said that the football house was optimistic that the Eaglets would do the country and the president proud.
“By the grace of God, history will repeat itself.

“President Buhari received the trophy from the Golden Eaglets when he was a military head of state in 1985.
“Now that he is a civilian president, I hope that the team will give him the trophy again,’’ he said.

The NFF scribe said that the Eaglets had everything going for them in the tournament, especially now that it would play an African opponent in the final.

He allayed the fear being expressed by some Nigerians that Mali stood a better chance to win the trophy having won the 2015 Africa U-17 championship in Niger Republic, early in the year.

He said, “Golden Eaglets are not afraid of opposition; the Eaglets have respect for every team but do not fear them because we know that football is about eleven players on each side.

“However, you need to respect your opponent for you also to be respected but that does not mean that you will over respect them in the field of play.

“I knew how good this team is after it participated in a four-nation tournament in Korea.

“The team defeated Brazil and Argentina at that tournament; it was a morale booster for us and that was why the inferiority complex in some of our players disappeared.

“There is no under-dog in football; if you think you can overrun an opponent easily, then, you might be in for a shocker”.

Sanusi urged Nigerians to continue to pray for the team to enable it complete its assignment by winning the trophy.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/u-17-world-cup-nff-urges-eaglets-to-create-record-for-buhari/

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Minna—National Examinations Council, NECO,
has released the 2015 Senior School Certificate
Examination, SSCE, with candidates scoring 68.56
percent with five credits and above, including
English Language and Mathematics, which is an
appreciable improvement over the past,
especially last year’s result.

A total number of 975,991 registered for the
various examinations out of which 969,491 sat
for the papers with 664,747 or 68.56 percent
passing with five credits and above; in 2014, by
comparison, 978,886 sat for the examinations
with 511,931 or 52.29 percent passing with five
credits and above.

The new Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO,
Professor Abdulrashid Garba, who announced
the release at Council’s head Office, Minna
Thursday, said the results were an improvement
of 12 percent compared to that of last year.

Centres de-recognized

He remarked that though the NECO
examinations were not completely devoid of
malpractices in some centres and schools, where
such cases were established, results of such
schools or centres were either withheld or
cancelled, while those apprehended will also be
prosecuted to show the council’s zero tolerance
for examination malpractices and add credibility
to the examinations in future.

Professor Garba stated that besides the
cancellation, the centres and schools already
established to be involved in the malpractices,
had been de-recognized indefinitely, while some
were suspended or totally de-recognized.

Seven centres across the country have been
discovered and sanctioned accordingly.
He said already, some of the ad hoc staff linked
to any form of malpractice or for other
negligence had also been disengaged from the
services of the council.

On debtor states

The Registrar, while answering questions on
debtor states, said results of such schools were
being withheld and would be released if
commitments were shown by the affected
schools.

Garba said: “t is not only government schools
that owe. I can tell you that only 13 schools,
including private schools, owe us and already
most of them are showing commitments to
settle and we will release such results once we
reach an agreement.”

He attributed the considerable improvement in
this year’s results to the commitment of various
governments at all levels to the funding
education and NECO’s curriculum, which he
described as more “indigenous and homely.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/68-6-pass-neco-again-debtor-states-results-withheld/

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Is your father that will kidnap you and do blood money...idiot!

LAGOS—Attempt by a middle-aged man to exchange an eight-year-old kidnapped boy with goods worth N51,000 in Surulere area of Lagos, has been foiled , following his arrest, Monday.
The suspect, identified as Jonathan Cooker, reportedly kidnapped the primary school pupil (names withheld) who was returning from a summer coaching in a school located around Lawrence road.

Thereafter, he reportedly took the boy to a provision store located on Cole Street and ordered for crates of soft drinks worth N51,000.

Instead of paying, he was said to have told the shop owner that he would be leaving his younger brother (kidnapped boy) behind, to get money from the house. The unsuspecting shop owner obliged him and gave the crates of soft drinks to him.

But the bubble burst after a passer-by who identified the little boy asked what he was doing in the shop. At that moment, Cooker reportedly increased his pace in a bid to escape from the scene . But he was immediately apprehended when the little boy told the passer-by that he was picked by a stranger.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/8-year-old-boy-kidnapped-from-school-exchanged-for-n51000-goods-in-lagos/

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C= Comoros
H= Haiti
I= Iceland
N= Nigeria
O=Oman
N= Nicaragua
S= Seychelles
O= Oman

NB: only one country starts with "o"

RickRichards:
I hate to rain in on the party, but these supposedly educated people are playing with infections.

Dude shut up

SAPEDRO:
You have problem with comprehension, find your mate zikite ,I am actually expecting a coat from someone from Ui or Unilag
Does unizik have different questions for each candidate? whereby if we are both in science my number 1 might be your number 10 and also the name and reg number of a candidate will be on every single sheet of the question papers whereby requiring more time to mark

dude you see why I said you are a bleeping mofo...I just wrote a semester exam in unizik with different questions for everybody and got my result that day...dude I think your school is light years back

SAPEDRO:
It seems this goats don't know that Oau post utme is paper and pencil, and the questions are printed in the mornings if the exam date. I think if your school uses Cbt, you should see your result as soon as you click submit.

dude you are a castrated goat...its now unizik that doesn't right with paper and pencil...bleeping mofo

rubbish... last year unizik did it in 3-4hrs

ROSSIKE:
My friend pls just shut up. I think it's lack of exposure that's worrying you. Look at the grass. They can't even be bothered trimming it. And you're here shouting it's the best. Best at what?

okpo!!...come and trim the gras your self nah...show me the trimmed grass in your school..that's even if you are a student

abdulkayus:
Stop lying abeg. Which year did UNIZIK get the highest applicants from JAMB? It is always, Unilorin, Unilag, OAU and uniben.

first last year

third this year

all this people criticizing unizik..i know most of them were rejected admission... you are been showed the pictures of a school that started in 2004.. a school that has a better reputation than most first generational schools.....a school that has been getting the highest applicatants from jamb...UNIZIk is still the best

ABUJA — A total probe of the administration run
by immediate past president, Dr Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan is underway as the National Economic
Council, NEC, Ad-hoc Committee on the
Management of Excess Crude Account Proceeds
and Accruals into the Federation Account, headed
by the Governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams
Oshiomhole, is to hire two international forensic
audit firms to probe revenue that accrued into
the Federation Account and how it was spent
under former Dr Goodluck Jonathan as President.

Mr. Oshiomhole told journalists at the end of the
first meeting of the committee in Abuja,
yesterday that the auditors would cover the
period January 1, 2010 to June 1, 2015.

It put paid to calls by the opposition Peoples’
Democratic Party, PDP, that Buhari should extend
his probe to the administrations of Jonathan’s
predecessors, Alh. Umaru Yar’ Adua.and Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo.

Already, some revenue generating agencies have
been invited to brief the committee which will
take detailed briefings from all Ministries,
Departments and Agencies, MDAs of the Federal
Government that deal directly with revenue.

The focus will be on the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Nigeria
Customs Service, the Central bank of Nigeria, the
Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative, NEITI, among others.

Other members of the committee included Gov.

Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Ibrahim
Dankwambo of Gombe, and Udom Emmanuel of Akwa
Ibom.

He said that the committee did not want its
actions to be bogged down by political
interpretations and that the members were not
professionals. Even if they were professionals, he
said that their duties as governors would not
allow them the time to do a thorough work.

His words, “We held our first primary session
today here with some of the revenue generating
agencies that are supposed to remit funds to the
federation account. We had a successful session
with Customs, NPA, NEITI, SEC, FIRS, and quite a
number of others and next week we will also hear
from CBN, Ministry of Finance, Office of the
Accountant-General of the Federation.

For the remaining ones, we agree we are going to
meet on Thursday next week, NNPC, NPDC, DPR,
NIMASA and other remaining agencies.

We have started the work, with the idea to hear
them out, what they have been doing, with
particular emphasis on revenue accruing from
these organizations and whether or not these
have been remitted to the Federation Account for
judicious distribution.

His words: “We realised that this is a task and
given our mandate, even if we were professional
accountants because we are sitting governors, we
would not have the time to do a forensic audit
which this assignment entails.

“Therefore, we have agreed in line with our
mandate to appoint two reputable international
audit firms to carry out a thorough forensic
audit, not only of NNPC, which is more of excess
crude, but other monies that accrued to the
Federation Accounts. We have other revenues like
bonuses, royalties, taxes, VAT that flow into the
Federation Account.

“We are taking a holistic review of the entire
process, looking at all the agencies that make
contribution of funds to the federation account.

We are convinced that by appointing audit firms,
we will allow professionals to carry out this
exercise, so that it will be free of any political
colouration and also we will ensure the outcome of
the investigation will.

“We have learned, we have listened and asked
questions. I think we all have a clear picture of
what is happening in those organizations before
now. Some have information to supply and we have
drawn attention to those areas, they are willing
to oblige. We believe in the end, we will be able to
not just establish what had happened over the
period but much more important, going forward
with the changes the President has promised the
country.

“It is not going to be business as usual. He
started on a clean slate and everybody knows the
new rules of the game and in particular as the
laws apply to the various institutions are
implemented in full. So I think we started very
well. We are very confident that we are going to
come out with something that is going to be of
immense benefits to the Nigerian people”.

On the rationale for embarking on another audit
report with regards to the alleged missing funds,
he said “Some reports were produced by PWC but
in that report the PWC expressed their
frustration and pointed to the fact that they
were not able to access all the information they
needed and that what they were able to produce
was to the extent of information that was made
available to them.”

He added: “Audit can only be credible as much as
information that was made available to auditors.
The good news now is that with President Buhari,
all the books will be open, no agency has any
protection. Any agency that refuses to open the
books then is ready to go on confrontation with
the authority.

“The forensic audit will act on the whole truth
and nothing but the truth so that all stakeholders
will have basis to formulate good policies and that
Nigeria will never find itself in this circle where
huge sums of money are allegedly diverted and
unaccounted for. Audit has become a way of life
for all public institutions.”

On the duration of the audit exercise, Oshiomhole
explained that the committee had looked at it
professionally. “We are focusing on a five year
circle. What we have agreed is that we are going
to carry out an audit for five years from 1st
January 2010 to 30th June 2015.

“If the audit report reveals that we need to go
backward, then we can do that. But for the first
instance, this is the period that we consider good.
“We can’t impose a time frame on them but will
engage them and by Thursday we will be able to
make it public. We need to listen to them and
agreed with them on how much time will be okay
for them. We are all in a hurry to ensure that the
right thing is done. The emphasis is not on time
but doing thorough job.

“By next week we will meet with the big ones and
we will then be able to tell you the audit firms
that we have appointed. They are firms I am sure
Nigerians will have confidence in.

“At the end of the audit we will hear them out
and reconcile them with what the laws says and
arrive at a position. Given the volume of work and
complicated nature of issues, we agreed we need
professionals to carry out the audit. It is only the
professionals that can handle it. It is not good to
compromise”.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/buhari-begins-total-probe-of-jonathans-govt/

LAGOS — An estimated N2.7 trillion ($13.6
billion) worth of direct investment is part of the
immediate benefits accruing from President
Muhammadu Buhari’s recent state visit to the
United States, the Presidency claimed yesterday.
The presidency also affirmed that the visit cost
the Nigerian treasury less than N220 million
contrary to assertions in some sections of the
media. It further explained that President
Buhari’s son, Yusuf, did not receive any estacode
for the trip even as it contended that great
savings were made by members of the delegation
against previous visits.

The five governors who were in the delegation,
the presidency said, paid their way while
permanent secretaries and other senior
government officials only received their
entitlements.

The presidency’s explanations followed news
reports in some sections of the media that the
visit was wasteful, cost N2.2 billion and was not
in anyway beneficial.

In a statement, yesterday, Senior Special
Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity,
Mallam Garba Shehu, said besides the economic
benefits, plans were already in motion to lift
hindrances to the flow of military support for
Nigeria’s war against insurgents in the North-
East.

Some immediate benefits

According to him, “some of the more immediate
benefits of the President’s trip to the US include:
the proposed $2.1 billion fund from the World
Bank for the re-development of the northeast
battered by Boko Haram; $5 billion from US
investors in Nigeria’s agriculture sector; $1.5
billion investment in the Nigerian’s health sector;
and another $5 billion investment from the US in
our country’s power sector.

“Also, as things stand, the embargo on weapons
sales to Nigeria is in the process of being
removed. The trip to the US by President Buhari
was definitely very successful and beneficial to
Nigeria. Only those rabidly determined to find
faults unnecessarily will cook up falsehood in a
futile effort to rake up murk where none exists.

“It is very sad that in this age of free-flowing
information and in this era of change, a media
organisation would make itself available as a
vehicle to peddle a lie of such low and ignominious
quality.

“Contrary to the newspaper’s assertions, the
total cost of the trip to the Nigerian taxpayer
was at the most minimal, in line with the policy of
this administration to cut waste and
extravagance.

Buhari’s son didn’t receive estacode, govs paid
their way
“In point of fact, the total amount expended on
the trip by the office of the President amounted
to nothing near 10 per cent of the speculated
figure.

“Owing to the free accommodation provided by the
host government, all the personal staff who
accompanied the President on the trip received
reduced allowances.

“His son, Yusuf, received neither allowances nor
estacode. The five governors on the trip each
paid their way. Permanent Secretaries who
travelled on the delegation did so in accordance
with extant rules and none of them exceeded
their estacode entitlements.

“Apart from the Nigerian pilot’s mischievous
mathematics, it is shortsighted and misleading of
the newspaper to have claimed that President
Buhari’s trip to the US achieved nothing.

“Nigerian-US relations had suffered severely
over the past few years. That relationship has
now been reset. The benefits of this symbiotic
relationship will become more and more evident as
the Buhari administration continues to tackle the
challenges of corruption, security and the
economy.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/buhari-brought-n2-7trn-investments-from-us-visit-presidency/

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The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)
on Tuesday said that it never denied Dame
Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President
Goodluck Jonathan, access to the VIP’s lounge at
the Port Harcourt International Airport.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
FAAN’s denial is contained in a statement issued
by Mr Yakubu Dati, its General Manager,
Corporate Affairs.

The statement said the news report of the
incident which allegedly occurred on July 27 in the
social media was misleading and mischievous.
“We wish to state that no such thing happened as
Dame Patience Jonathan, like other family
members of former Presidents and other
designated principal officers of Government, are
officially entitled to the use of airports’ VIP and
protocol lounges under the management of FAAN.

“The Authority holds the former First Lady in high
esteem, being the wife of our former President
and, therefore, could not have done anything that
would suggest disrespect for her person,” it said.
According to the statement, the former first
lady’s convoy was only denied access to the foot
of the aircraft during boarding formalities at the
airport in line with international aviation best
practices.

It said this was strictly for safety reasons as
prescribed by the International Civil Aviation
Organisation (ICAO).

The statement said: “Our security officials
explained this fact in detail to the former first
lady.

“We wish to recall that former President Goodluck
Jonathan in his recent trips from the same
airport, had to walk to the aircraft from the
protocol lounge, in recognition of this ICAO
regulation.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/we-never-denied-patience-jonathan-access-to-vips-lounge-at-airport-faan-says/

"Father forgive them, for they know not what
they are saying for now”. This was the response
from the JAMB boss Professor Dibu Ojerinde while
reacting to the recent uproar over the list of
eligible candidates sent to institutions.

According To him, the reason behind this new
admission policy is to help candidates not only get
admission but get it on time.

Below are excerpts of the exact words of the
JAMB Boss;

The big universities are overloaded. Can you
imagine 8,000 students seeking for admission to
study law in a university that will take only 250
candidates for law! The remaining 7750
candidates will wait endlessly and hopelessly till
the end of the admission.

Or imagine 7500 candidates seeking for medicine
in a university. Of these 7500 candidates, 2000
scored above 250 in the UTME. The university has
a carrying capacity of only 150 candidates for
medicine. The remaining 7350 who scored above
200 will be wasted. Particularly, 1750 candidates
who scored above 250 will be wasted while other
universities either do not have enough candidates
or high scoring candidates.

Courses like Biological Sciences, Agric
Engineering and related courses are lacking in
candidacy!

We are saying, let's give them a feel of chance
somewhere else that has not gotten enough
candidates by sending the names of these HIGH
scorers to "needy" universities.

The names of such surplus candidates are being
distributed to first Federal institutions, then
State and finally Private institutions in that order
depending on:
• Availability of space in other universities,
• Choice of the course of the candidate,
• The geographical Zone of the choice of the
candidate, and
• Performance of the candidate.
By this approach, wastage of HIGH scores will be
reduced, the fate of the candidates will be
determined on time and yet the interest of their
areas of study may be satisfied.
addition, the concept of selection by
• Merit,
• Catchment Area, and
• Educationally Less Developed States
Will be adequately catered for.

However, I am not saying that everyone will get
admission or even get their original choice of
course of study. But it is better than wasting the
time, finances, and good scores of these
candidates. We need to fill the available spaces as
given to us by the regulatory bodies like NUC,
NBTE, and NCCE.

If, however, a candidate does not want the given
opportunity, it is too "baaaad".

This scenario was made clear to the institutions
during the Policy meeting that took place on 14th
July this year in Abuja.

Before the Policy meeting, we had discussions
with the representatives of the Federal, State,
and Private universities where the degree of the
problems of candidates were presented and
solutions were proffered. These decisions were
backed up by copious statistics of applications to
various universities.

Again “Father forgive them, for they know not
what they are saying"

I believe that some so- called educational
consultants have some hidden agenda which are
being thwarted by our proactive steps. Let them
know that this is a period of CHANGE. If they do
not CHANGE they will be CHANGED.

http://myschool.com.ng/school/news/38479/father-forgive-them-for-they-know-not-what-they-are-saying-jamb-boss-ojerinde.html

Tragedy occurred on Sallah day in Bauchi when a
policeman on special duty knocked his head
against a barrier meant to restrict heavy trucks
from plying a road, and died.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
the policeman, Corporal Solomon Paul, attached to
Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit, Bauchi Police
Command, became unconscious and later died at
the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital
(ATBU-TH) Bauchi.

Confirming the incident, Bauchi State Police
Command’s spokesman, DSP Haruna Mohammed,
described it as “tragic”.

“ On the 17/7/2015 at about 09:00hrs, The
Bauchi State Police Command lost one F/N 499348
PC Solomon Paul, attached to Explosive Ordinance
Disposal Unit, Bauchi.

“The incident occurred when the victim brought
his head out of the roof of a moving patrol vehicle
while on special duty.

“As a result, he hit the overhead barrier meant to
restrict heavy trucks from plying the road, and
became unconscious.

“He was rushed to ATBU Teaching Hospital, Bauchi
, for treatment but was later certified dead by a
medical doctor while on admission,” he said.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/policeman-in-a-moving-patrol-vehicle-knocks-head-against-highwaybarrier-dies/

Jamb has officially announced that the 2015
official cut-off mark is 180 for Universities and
150 for polytechnics, Colleges of Education and
other certificate awarding institutions.

However, from comments and feedback we have
been receiving, it seems that most candidates
have not clearly understood the import of this.
So we deem it necessary to explain what it
actually means.

Many candidates for instance are of the opinion
that since they have applied to study in a
university and have scored up to 180 that their
choice institution must consider them for
admission going by the fact that the official cut-
off mark for universities is 180.

You should know by now that most Federal
Universities accept only candidates who scored
200 and above and nothing less and even when
such universities adopts the official cut-off mark
of 180 some courses will demand that you still
score 200 and above to be considered for
admission.

Similar permutation applies to polytechnics and
colleges of education with official cut-off mark of
150.

You may ask, "What is then the essence of the
cut-off mark if institutions won't stick to it?" I
will explain.

The 180 official cut-off mark for universities only
means that no university is permitted to accept
any candidate with UTME score below 180.

For polytechnics, Colleges of Education and other
certificate awarding institutions that have
official cut-off mark of 150, it means that non-
of these institutions will accept a candidates that
have anything less that 150 as UTME score.

So where as institutions cannot go below their
official cut-off marks, they can go above the
cut-off marks.

Now, I guess you understand.
http://myschool.com.ng/school/news/38118/what-the-jamb-official-cut-off-mark-actually-means.html

awesome....I love them