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monsterg:
wht's ikers predictn over da comin match btw madrid vs barclna? anybdy wit da gist?

opeyemiaby:
D guy who posted this article am sure he his a litle bit insane,if u want to campain for any of your fraudsters party (PDP)go to d media.dont blame d present governor.

dominique:
there was massive failure across the country. besides, NECO is a national body not Edo state. we should blame the PDP led government for the degradation of education for the past 12 years.

medjai:
2-0 in the end, an okay performance. They just went there did what they had to do and got the three points. You guys were right, Pep was right to have started Villa. He ended his goal drought and that will boost his confidence going into the classico.
Kudos to Valdes for making that game changing save in the dying minutes of the 1st half. . . I wonder why he isn't Spain's no. 1.
Messi hits goal number 50. I don't think anybody has ever scored these much goals in a single season. Maybe, Mario Jardel but I'll check it out.
Bernabeu. . . let's go there.

Edo State students have recorded another mass failure in the November/December 2010 NECO examination, results from the National Examinations Council (NECO) has shown.

Out of the 25 subjects taken by students from the state, none of the participating students had up to 50 per cent pass mark in the examination set for graduating secondary school students.

This has raised concern among relevant parties, with teachers and parents trading blames as to who is responsible for the poor academic performances of students in the state.

Those who spoke to NEXT on the development attributed the cause of the mass failure to many factors, including lack of qualified teachers, particularly in private schools, and the premium they place on money. Others include lack of reading culture among the students, and loss of societal values. Owners of private schools were also indicted in the mass failure of students, as many of them have turned their schools to ‘miracle centres’, where students easily indulge in examination malpractices after paying high fees to the school owners.

Solomon Osarenren, who teaches Mathematics in a private school in Benin City, blames lack of seriousness on the part of the students, lazy approach to study, and lack of infrastructure in the schools, as some of the factors responsible for the decline in the performance of the students.

“So long as students attach more importance to mundane things and spend more time surfing the Internet and watching movies, it will be difficult for them to excel in their studies. After all, students of those days performed even better than students of today, even without those infrastructures that are in schools of today,” Mr Osarenren said.

An educationist, Roland Asoro, who decried the rate of mass failure in examinations in the state in particular and the country at large, advised the government to take proactive steps to address the trend. He called for regular training and re-training of teachers, as well as the provision of learning aids in the schools.

Mr Asoro also admonished parents and guardians to supervise and regulate activities of their children at home, with a view to making them more responsible and serious.

Some parents, however, said that the bulk of the blame should not be attributed to them alone. They argue that teachers are also responsible for the poor performance of students in external examinations.

A parent, Osarobo Asemota, whose child attends one of the private schools in Benin City, argued that teachers can only give what they have academically.

According to her, many of the teachers, especially in some private schools, lack the minimum qualifications required. She also called for consistency in the educational policies of government.

“We want all concerned to urgently address this ugly development. If things continue the way they are, ten years from now, the country may inherit half baked workforce,” Ms Asemota said.

When contacted on phone, special assistant on education to Governor Oshiomhole, Alli Sule, said: “We are still studying the result at the ministry level. We shall come out with our position later.”

medjai:
Getafe nears takeover

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/909448/la-liga-side-to-be-renamed-team-dubai-after-takeover?cc=3888

Hamid O:
PDP will always remain PDP. I didn't and will never vote anyone that comes under this useless party.

bros1234:
This whole thing you guys call election is nothing but tribal and ethnic power play. I am so disappointed in the backwardness of the Nigerian mentality

emcaluv:
I am not a politician but this is not healthy for Nigeria. Most people from other ethnic group could not vote in the North because of fear of molestation. May this Nation not tear apart because of 2011 Election. It is no more PDP issue rather tribe. I wonder what will happen in Nigeria in the next 48 hrs. There is much to this than GEJ or Buhari. May God help this country.

JaaizTech:
Thanks it is clearer now, it means the winner must have 24 states in which He got not less than 25% of the votes in that state. If any candidate can't meet this then really He doesn't deserve to be the President. But my grouse now is, if  candidate A gets the majority of the votes (134(1)a) and candidateB gets more than 25% of votes counted in 24 states(134(1)b). What happens, will candidate B be declared winner or will there be a re-run. I am really concerned because very few are aware of this provisio, and it is a potential recipe for crisis .

lagoshost:
I pray we all have GOODLUCK tomorow.

If you like this prayer say Amen.

Real Madrid break their clean sheet record of the 1997/98 and 2001/02 seasons, in which they won their seventh and ninth European Cup titles

Laura Navas / Translation by Michael J. O'Donnell

Besides earning the best numbers of all sides in the top European championship, Real Madrid also happen to be thrashing their own records in the Champions League. By keeping a clean sheet in eight of their ten UCL games this season, the Whites have overtaken their seven clean sheet record of the 1997/98 and 2001/02 campaigns, in which they won their seventh and ninth Europan Cup titles, respectively.

Real Madrid faced Ajax in their fist Champions League match this season and defeated them 2-0. They then defeated Auxerre and Ajax away from home. They won against the French side again at the Bernabeu and also defeated AC Milan.

Their 1-1 draw in the first leg of the Round of 16 against Olympique Lyonnais was followed by a solid 3-0 victory, that in turn segued into impressive 4-0 and 1-0 wins over Tolttenham Hotspur at the Bernabeu and White Hart Lane in the quarterfinals.