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Anybody who finds any JAMB or JAMB-related article that ranks any Yoruba state above Imo and Anambra should post it. I am sure no such article is out there. Even Abia and possibly, Enugu have more JAMB intake than some Yoruba states.

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Editorial: JAMB 2008: The great gap

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* Published 07/17/2008
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On May 29, 2008, The Guardian newspaper carried a story on the number candidates who sat for this year’s Joint Administration and Matriculation Board Examination (JAMB). The number of candidates, as it concerns some states in the north, makes a very shocking reading. In fact it is disheartening, a graphic illustration of how steep the standard of education has fallen in the northern part of the country. The Guardian story disclosed that a total of 998,114 candidates wrote the JAMB exam, held across the country in April this year. The first six states with the highest number of candidates, expectedly are all from the south. They are Imo, first with 101,201 candidates, representing (9.6%) of the total. Anambra followed with 72,722 or (6.89%), Delta – 71,722 (6.73%), Edo – 60,714 (5.76%), Akwa Ibom – 52,635 (4.99%) and Abia – 49,810 (4.72%).

The last five states? As can be expected, they are all from the north. The states are Taraba from the hapless northeast with 5,582 candidates or (0.53%), Sokoto – 4,926 (0.47%), Jigawa – 3,987 (0.38%), Zamfara – 3,826 (0.36%) from the lamentable northwest, FCT – 1,726 (0.16%) and taking the rear, the very last state is another northeast state, Yobe with just 703 candidate or 0.07% of the nearly one million candidates who took the exam. Of the six states, three, namely Sokoto, Jigawa, and Zamfara are from the northwest, while the northeast has two – Taraba and Yobe. The relatively better off north central was not left out, as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) came fifth, if the area is regarded as a state.

This is the sad reality of the educational imbalance between the north and the south, particularly at the tertiary level. The real shock and dismay however, is not that the bottom six states are all from the north. No, what is really disturbing and heart-rendering is the scale of the imbalance between the two sections of the country. Just compare Imo, with over one hundred thousand candidates and Yobe with less than one thousand. Statistically speaking, for every 100 candidates from Imo state who sat for this year’s JAMB exam, there is approximately just one candidate from Yobe.

And yet the two states inhabit the same country. One sits at the top of the education ladder, the Europe or North America of Nigeria, while the other, whether it is Yobe or Zamfara gasps for air at the bottom, as if it were part of Niger Republic, our poor northern neighbour. In fact it is possible that just two states from the south- say Imo and Abia have more students who sat for the exam than the combined total from the 19 northern states. It is this bad. The north for all its size and potentialities is not pulling its weight, lest of all in the area of education.

What is happening here? It is partly a sad story of gross neglect, misplaced priorities and perhaps a disdain for or lack of appreciation of education. Another reason may be that because the north is economically poorer, parent in the region find it difficult to find the money to pay for the JAMB forms, leading to a situation in which many candidates from such poor homes are unable to write the exam.

Great societies and civilizations are built on the foundation of sound education, especially one that places special emphasis on cutting edge science and technology.

Think United State of America and Europe. See the critical role good education has played in their rapid and awesome advancement. This is why progressive and forward looking countries, aspiring to join the club of the truly developed nations of the world invest heavily in quality education, especially in the areas of science and applied sciences and information and computer technology (ICT). A good example of such country is tiny Singapore, which recently moved from the unenviable status of a developing nation to the enviable and prestigious rank of a first world, all thanks largely to a first class educational system.

Sadly, we are unable or unwilling to replicate such great facts, particularly the north. If education is central to human progress and development, it appears we are yet to fully grasp and digest this reality. In most of the states, education receives the lion share of the yearly budget and yet at the end of the day there is little to show for such huge budgetary allocations. Clearly there is a mismatch between official pronouncements and budgetary votes and the reality or the result on the ground. This calls into question the manner the education votes are spent.

Nor do we seem to get our priorities right. What is more important: Good primary and secondary school sectors that turn out a large number of qualified candidates for tertiary admissions or an under-funded and under-staffed university, perpetually searching for qualified indigenes to fill the quota reserved for them? A university’s ability to excel and stay competitive is largely dependent on the quality of the students it admits. It will be unable to fulfill this goal if the students are academically poor because they had deficient education at both the primary and secondary levels. This is why it makes more sense to place greater emphasis on the two lower levels of the system so that in the long run a university will not find it difficult to get qualified students for admission, particularly in the sciences and applied sciences.

The north has a long way to go to catch up with the south in education. In fact, the gap seems to be rapidly widening each passing day because, whereas the south sees education as a serious and important business and thus invests heavily in it, both through public and private participation, the north is not giving it adequate attention, hence the poor result, year in year out. Yet if the north desires to earnestly tackle the abject poverty in the region, provide economic opportunities for its teeming jobless youths, create a more equitable and peaceful society and become an effective player in a globalize 21st century world, then it must start paying special attention to education through infrastructural development, training and retraining of teachers, employment of more trained hands, staff incentives, judicious use of funds and serious inspection and monitoring of academic activities in schools. If this is realised, the north may be able not just to reduce the present yawning gap between it and the south, but more importantly create a better place for its people.

http://www.nasarawastate.org/articles/418/1/Editorial-JAMB-2008-The-great-gap/Page1.html

Saturday, April 24, 2010

JAMB releases UTME results, 41% score above 200
John Alechenu


The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board on Friday released the results of 1, 228, 607 out of a total of 1, 276, 795 candidates who sat for the maiden Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination held on April 17 across the country.







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Of this number, only 501,463 representing 41 per cent of the candidates scored above 200 out of the maximum 400 points.

Another set of 832,434 representing 68 per cent of this number scored above 180 marks while 330, 971 representing 27 per cent scored between 180 and 199 marks.

The Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. 'Dibu Ojerinde, who disclosed these at a press briefing in Abuja, explained that a total of 1, 375,652 candidates applied for the 2010 UTME, out of which 271 candidates sat for the examination in six foreign countries.

He said, "Out of the 1,276,795 candidates that sat for the 2010 UTME, the results of 1,228,607 representing 96.26 per cent are today released, while results of 48, 188 (3.77 per cent) are still being screened before release or otherwise.

"Detailed analysis of application by gender shows that 769,416 candidates are male while 606,236 candidates are female. These figures show that 44.07 per cent are female while 55.93 per cent are male."

Imo State led the six states with the highest number of candidates with a total of 111,613 representing 8.11 per cent, closely followed by Delta State with 86,955 representing 6.32 per cent.

The Federal Capital Territory led the bottom six with a total of 2,393 applications, representing 0.17 per cent of the total number. It was closely followed by Zamfara State with 3,568, representing 0.26 per cent.

As has been the tradition over the years, candidates who are seeking university admission led the pack, followed closely by those seeking admission into colleges of education.

Bayelsa State came tops on the list of states where examination malpractices were recorded. It had a total of 5,442 cases, followed by Rivers State with 3, 302 cases. Lagos State came third with 2,847 cases.

The JAMB registrar revealed that 46 examination centres across 10 states had been de-recognised as a result of their "unacceptable behaviours during the examination.

Rivers State led the pack with 12 centres, followed by Imo and Lagos states with seven centres each.

Ojerinde said 20,780 results, representing 1.63 per cent of the total number of those who sat for the examination, were being withheld for further verification and thorough screening before release.

He explained that it was too early to make public the name of the highest scorer in the examination because some of the results were still being screened.

He also frowned at the practice of some universities who charged candidates up to N10, 000 for making such universities their second choice. Ojerinde said this practice must stop or else sanctions would be applied.

He enjoined candidates to go online, using their application slips to log on to the JAMB website to check their results.

Yeah! More Yoruba in the UK hence more Yoruba UK criminals, as we read everyday.
Hence they turned Peckham into Oshodi with their rascally behaviour

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-237534.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-36515.0.html

Igbos have consistently led in JAMB intake in Nigeria for decades now. IMO state alone beast a combo of mnay SW states.
The jamb site used to be up and running with all th state by state data until Oyerinde, the incompetent Yoruba current head of JAMB pulled it down because the data there does not favour the SW. All the data above were obtained and synthesized from JAMB because I have seen them before

lol Yoruba doctors venge on Tinubu. The guy has become an anathema

This Tinu[b]m[/b]bu is a thorough rascal.

Na today?

Hahaha!! Slowly, but steadily, Tinubu is being unmasked. Beaf keep it coming. There is need to chase the rascals out of town.

Ileke-IdI:
Why does OBJ always look like he's frowning? Even when he smiles?

Fanikayode is a handsome man sha

Fani Kayode is a handsome THIEF

Tinubu, the crooked Asiwaju of a crooked race.

stormm:
http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/nigerian-man-shoots-wife-atlanta

Nigerian Man Shoots Wife In Atlanta

A Nigerian(Igbo) man, Maximillian Ezimora, has been arrested in Atlanta after shooting his wife, Uchenna Ezimora, five times. The wife, described by a source as a hard working registered nurse in the Atlanta area, survived the shooting and is currently hospitalized. SaharaReporters was unable to ascertain her condition.

Mr. Ezimora, who reportedly hails from Adazi, Anambra State, is being held in Fulton County jail in Atlanta. He is charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of firearms while committing a felony.

Just show me one decent Yoruba man. Stop showing me bad Igbos that are as bad as the bad Yorubas.

stormm:
Exactly my sentiments. Not the ethnic hogwash being posted by otherwise decent people.

Thanks for admitting that there are no good yorubas out there

Obiagu1:
^^^

Except my hero, Soyinka. I respect him because he is a man.

I recently asked a friend, an Igala man, to mention just one Yoruba that contributed something as head of a parastatal or as a minister.
He couldn't mention one name, he ended up telling me they were all thieves and useless for the country.

Soyinka my foot. He was the introducer (boldened for emphasis) of cultism in Nigeria. He, too, is not decent

stormm:
A 'decent' Igbo man like Orji Kalu, Chris Uba, Chimaroke Nnamani, Iwuanyanwu, Andy Uba, Ohakim, Cultist Theodore Orji and several million Igbo men.

Mention a decent Yoruba man. There are bad Igbos and there are bad Yorubas. But are there good Yorubas like there are good Igbo? Hell no.

alex101:
LOL

It is no laughing matter. Can anyone point to a decent Yoruba man like Anyaoku, Ekwueme, Bart Nnaji and millions of other Igbos? Just point at one. Even Obasanjo is also a crook. The dearth of decent people in Yorubaland is the reason they celebrate crooks. What a shame!!

Like Bode George like Abiola, like Tinubu like Kase Lawal. All thieves, smugglers and fraudsters, one way or another.

Wow! See yoruba rascals defending a rascally Yoruba thief. Indeed, tribalism is the major bane of Nigeria, especially the type in practice in Yorubaland.
No wonder Jonathan called them rascals.

N17m fraud:nija televangelist charged to court!

N17m fraud: How tele-evangelist pastor swindled victim – Witness
By Tony Amokeodo
Thursday, 24 Feb 2011



A prosecution witness, Mr. Peter Adeyemi, on Wednesday, informed a Lagos High Court in Ikeja how a popular tele-evangelist and Shepherd in charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Parish, Alagbado, Prophet Isreal Ola-Ogundipe, allegedly defrauded a Nigerian resident in United Kingdom, Mrs. Oladele Williams- Oni, of over N17m.

Adeyemi also told Justice Olabisi Akinlade that he was aware of the business relationship between the prophet and Williams-Oni who is his nephew’s wife.

The witness had under cross-examination by the lawyer to the cleric, Mr. Olusegun Raji, claimed that Ogundipe seized eight property belonging to the complainant that were under his care.

The 56 –year old plumber added that the accused had admitted that he owed the complainant N8.5m in a written statement he made at the Special Fraud Unit Lagos while the matter was being investigated.

The case has been adjourned till April 4.


Source:www.punchontheweb.com

A Nigerian immigrant stole the identities of 350 people to claim £1.3million in bogus tax credits in the largest benefit scam of its kind.

Olaide Taiwo, 35, hijacked the identities while working as a security guard for a number of large national companies.

He then used the names to claim tens of thousands in working tax credits.

This week he was jailed for eight and a half years – the highest ever sentence for tax credit fraud.

Taiwo is understood to have arrived illegally in Britain in 2003 with his wife. Although three applications to stay in the UK failed, in 2005 he was granted discretionary leave to remain.

It was during this period that his scam began. The father-of-two submitted more than 300 fraudulent tax credit claims between June 2004 and July 2008 worth over £1million.

When he was arrested, investigators found an ‘identity thieves’ paradise’, with stacks of fake passports and driving licences and £70,000 in cash lying around his council flat in Camberwell, South-East London.

The property was littered with paperwork detailing the names, addresses and national insurance numbers of hundreds of people which he had taken from employee payroll records at dozens of companies around London where he had worked as a security guard.

They also found templates for making false passports, birth certificates, NHS cards and driving licences.

Taiwo used the identities to open hundreds of bank accounts for the benefits to be paid into, but HM Revenue & Customs became suspicious about the multiple tax credit applications and arrested him in July 2008.

They believe he was the ringleader of an organised criminal network which included his sister-in-law who worked for a job centre.

But the rest of the gang are thought to have fled to Nigeria. Taiwo also tried to leave the country but he was arrested again on August 6 last year.

He was found guilty at Inner London Crown Court of fraudulently obtaining payments of tax credits, by using the names and addresses of individuals without their consent and acquiring criminal property.

Sentencing him, Judge Simon Davis ordered that he be deported at the end of his eight and a half year sentence.

He said: ‘This is a fraud on a substantial scale.

‘You lied and sought to manipulate with ease and confidence and with an arrogance that was astonishing.

‘You were intimately connected with every aspect of the fraud, stealing real details of real people to commit identity fraud on the large scale.’

Another member of the gang, Taiwo’s sister-in-law Olajumoke Ademuyiwa, 42, a Jobcentre Plus employee, was also found guilty of fraudulently obtaining tax credit payments in an earlier hearing.

Ademuyiwa opened the bank accounts into which the benefits were paid, but she is not thought to have used her role as a job centre worker to make false claims. Her husband, Oluyemi Amidu Taiwo – Taiwo’s brother – is thought to have fled the country. She is due to be sentenced in April.

Richard Young, senior investigating officer for HMRC said: ‘This pair blatantly hijacked the identities of over 350 innocent people and stole from British taxpayers by submitting over 300 fraudulent tax credit claims between June 2004 and July 2008.

‘They deliberately attacked and abused a system designed to provide financial help to the most vulnerable people in our society.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti, -benefits.html

One Dies, Nine Injured In PDP/CPC Clash

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Written by Oluwatoyin Malik and Adebayo Waheed Saturday, 26 February 2011

ONE person died while nine people, including a nursing mother and her baby were injured while eight vehicles were vandalised during a clash between supporters of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Iseyin Town, Oyo State, on Friday.

Saturday Tribune gathered that members of the PDP had gone to Saki on campaign trip with the Oyo State governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala while those of the CPC were in Iseyin campaigning also.

The chairman of CPC in Iseyin Local Government, Alhaji Isiaka Adeniyi told Saturday Tribune that the party members were going to the Aseyin’s Palace with their House of Representatives’ candidate, Mr. Abiodun Olasupo, when they met the governor’s convoy.

He alleged that the governor’s convoy suddenly opened fire on the CPC’s convoy which led to the death of one Saka Yusuf, while 12 vehicles in their convoy were vandalised.

The clash reportedly occurred when supporters of the two parties met within Iseyin town as the PDP members were passing through the town on their way back to Ibadan.

Supporters from both parties reportedly started using abusive words at one another, which eventually led to attack.

Weapons like guns and cutlasses were said to have been used in the fight, while residents scampered into safety.

The Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mr Baba Adisa Bolanta, confirmed the incident, but said one person was injured while six vehicles were vandalised.

The commissioner also added that no arrest had been made as at the time of writing this report.

Reacting to the incident, the Special Adviser, Media and Communication to Governor Alao-Akala, Prince Dotun Oyelade said: “The circumstances are hazy and confusing. The ACN senatorial candidate reported that there was commotion when the entourage of the deputy governor was passing through Iseyin.

The CPC people are alleging similar scenario. This is an orchestrated and planned attempt to paint the PDP campaign train in bad light exactly in the circumstance which were reported on the influx of miscreants into Oyo State for Saturday’s rally at Mapo.”