Korede Bello’s Lecturer Threatens To Resign If He Is Allowed To Write Exams

Fast rising Mavin Records label artist Korede Bello who had his matriculation for his Higher National Diploma (HND), at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), on November 9, 2015, is said to be have academic troubles in school.


A source who on an anonymous ground disclosed to Naij.com that some of Korede Bello’s lecturers have threatened to resign if the singer is allowed to write his exams because he has not met up with 70% of his class attendance for the semester.
 He further added that the one of his lecturers in class on Wednesday, January 6, disclosed that he will resign if Korede Bello is allowed to sit for his exams later this year because he has not been attending lectures due to his busy schedule.

Confirming the report , Naij spoke with Korede Bello’s manager Casper but after exchanging pleasantries and been asked about the allegation against the music star, he dropped the call. All further attempts to reach him proved abortive.

Just few weeks to his matriculation, Korede won ‘The Song of the Year’ award at the 4th Annual Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards (GIAMA) that held last night in Houston, Texas. The event was hosted by Nigerian comedian and actor AY Makun. 

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If You Are Serving in Kwara State, Pls Read This

All corpers serving in Ifelodun local government area in Kwara State should not travel down to Kwara State yet because the fight between the Nupe and the Yoruba indigene there have aggravated and have gone more bloody too.



They are to hear from their CLO before returning to their LG.
Please rebroadcast and inform others.

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This Is What A Typical Examination Hall In Saudi Arabia Looks Like

A twitter user shared this.

How won't someone pass with this?? Lol

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Meet Nigerian Girl who Failed WAEC 5 Times; Today She's A Graduate with First Class

I often people who are close to me; if you work hard rather than expecting miracle to marry a rich man or rich woman, soon you will overtake even those you are looking up to. That is Olu Famous for you!

Read the story of Alaboh Anthonia who sat for WAEC 6 times, today she's DELSU first class graduate:

27yrs old Anthonia is the second best graduate from Delta State University, Abraka, in the 2014/2015 academic session, and she graduated from the Department of Mathematics with 4.70 CGPA. She shares her experience with Punch's Tunde Ajaja.

How was your growing up?
My growing up wasn’t easy at all. I was nine years old when my parents divorced, so as the first of three children, I had to assume the role of a mother for my siblings. There were lots of challenges but I’m grateful to God for my dad and everyone who assisted in making us who we are today.

Coping with numerous house chores, balancing that with my academics and having to do the things I wasn’t used to before were all very stressful for me as a child but I thank God who saw me through. My dad was also very supportive, even though he lost his job about that time too, we managed. My teen pastor in church also used to counsel me.

Did it affect your performance in school?
Not really, even though I won’t rule out the psychological effect of seeing my parents separate. But overall, I didn’t do badly. In my secondary school, I was doing well but my position in the class was like 21 out of 50. I wasn’t so much an excellent student then.

How easy was it passing your WASSCE and UTME and how many sittings?
JAMB was not a challenge for me but when I first wrote the WAEC, I had just two credits; Mathematics and English while I failed the rest. I don’t know why it happened that way. I kept writing the exam until I had my papers in one sitting at the sixth attempt. I finished from secondary school in 2002, but I didn’t pass all my papers at once until 2008. I could have combined results but I didn’t want that, so, I kept trying till I had it all at one sitting.

That’s why I thank God for having someone like my father because he understood what I wanted and supported me. He has always been very supportive of our academics and I’ll always be grateful to him. He didn’t despise me because I didn’t have my papers at once. He encouraged me and stood by me. I later got admission in 2010.

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WAEC releases Nov/Dec 2015 WASSCE result

The National Office of the West Africa Examinations Council has released the November/December 2015 private examination.

Head of the National office of WAEC, Mr. Olutise Isaac Adenipekun who announced the result at a press briefing said 79,490 candidates representing 33.51 percent obtained six credits and above while 113,573 candidates representing 47.88 percent obtained five credits. He did not however state whether Mathematics and English were among the subjects, noting that the private examination was just a make-up examination for candidates needing to pass certain subjects.

Adenipekun added that 146,253 candidates representing 61.67 percenr obtained credits and above in four subjects while 175,718 candidates representing 74.09 percent obtained credits and above in three subjects  

According to him, 237,154 candidates consisting of 124,512 males and 112,642 females sat for the examination.

“Out of the total number of candidates that sat for the examination, 235,542 candidates representing 99.32 percent have their results fully processed and released. 1,612 candidates representing 0.68 percent have a few of their subjects still being processed due to some errors, traceable mainly to the candidates in the course of registration or writing the examination. Such errors are being corrected by the council to enable the affected candidates have their results,” the head of the national office said.

He also disclosed that results of 28,768 candidates representing 12.13percent are being withheld for further investigation in connection with various cases of examination malpractices.

Adenipekun further disclosed that the council has introduced a cutting-edge technology in the conduct of its examinations.

“It is called “CredenceOne”. It is the intersection of mobile communication and biometric technology. It is a mobile biometric identification and verification system, built on the Android operating system,” he added.

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Great Ife And The Failure Of The Gown By Reuben Abati

Another interesting article from Reuben Abati. Read below...

I have been reading some depressing stories about the state of the Obafemi Awolowo University, formerly University of Ife, which provide an equally depressing metaphor for the state of higher education in Nigeria. Great Ife as that university is known to its staff, students and alumni, is probably Nigeria’s first model university in every respect. Its major competitors were the University of Ibadan, the University of Lagos, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

But Ife was far ahead in terms of the beauty of its environment and the facilities made available to staff and students. Built with Cocoa money (not petro-dollar!) by the Western Region Government, that university was a perfect illustration of the idea of the university and it managed to produce generations of scholars and students, known for nothing but distinction.

 I studied at the University of Calabar (Malabites!), and at the time, I took time out to visit all the universities I mentioned earlier. In those days, the top universities in Nigeria were tourism destinations.  Ibadan and ABU had the best bookshops anyone could think of, and the bookshop in UNILAG was also professionally run. UNN students insisted that they attended the University of Nigeria! But Ife had the most beautiful campus. It was the only university that had a special publication titled “Ife University in Pictures.” I remember receiving copies of that publication as a gift at different times from my friends: Kola Ogunleye, Akeem Adewuyi, and Kayode Ajala who served in the university as a youth corps member. 
 

      Whenever UNIFE students spoke about their university, you would think it was a little piece of heaven that had been converted to a university. They spoke about beauty, excellence, intellect and great scholarship. Every lecturer on the campus was painted like an Oracle at Delphi. So much mythology mixed with tales of absolute excitement attracted other students to the university. Curiousity once took the better part of me also, and I went on a visit to see the marvellous depiction of a campus in physical reality.  I was not disappointed. Great Ife was great. I did not go to the classrooms, but my friends took me round. The University had just opened a Bukateria at the time, where everything was available. Driving into the campus itself was a delight; well-manicured flowers at both ends, long, comforting, welcoming drive.

      We moved from one hall of residence to the other, where the students felt as if they were God’s special creations, lucky to be receiving education in one of the brightest spots on planet earth. I didn’t like the arrogance of the typical Ife student or graduate, even the girls had a special bounce to their gait, even if less pretty than our girls in Calabar, and I always quipped that flowers and beauty do not make a university, rather it is the intellectual content, but even in this regard, Ife was well-regarded. It boasted of some of the brightest guys in academia: that was in those days when Nigerian universities were centres of excellence, knowledge, discipline and distinction. Let’s add culture, for truly culture matters, and in educational matters, culture is perhaps everything, and there were scholars in Ife who had grown to become cultural icons in their respective fields. 

     The visits to Ife as expected always ended up at the newly launched Bukateria. Good food. Great ambience.  And from the Bukateria Complex, there was a place we always visited for palm wine. I think they called it Old Bukka, close to the theatre. The halls of residence – Awolowo, Fajuyi, Moremi, Angola, Mozambique were exciting too; the students behaved as if each hall was a country unto itself, with each student having a permanent badge of identity. The students had quadrangles in every Faculty, and a Sports Complex, where my friend Akeem ended up with a black belt in Karate in addition to a degree in Architecture. Indeed, the University of Ife that I describe could compete at the time with any top university in the world. I have been to quite a few as a regular or executive student, there is no doubt that the university environment, where the gown is a special symbol, is meant to be a combination of everything that is excellent, to impart knowledge in a friendly environment where the student is groomed to become great citizens in society and for knowledge to be produced for the advancement of mankind. That is the ideal! 

      This is why it is particularly tragic that the same Great Ife is now a shadow of its former self.  These days, more than 30 years after that glorious era that I describe, students of Obafemi Awolowo University, are now reported to be protesting over dilapidated halls of residence and terrible facilities. That bad? There was even a picture in the newspapers of OAU students fetching water from a stream! And I read one columnist calling on the university’s alumni to hurry up and  rescue their alma mater. Please, is it that bad? But the story of this tragedy is the larger story of the Nigerian education system.  My generation (waoh, man don dey old oh) went to school in this same country, and from kindergarten to doctorate, we can only recall in comparison with emergent realities, good memories.  Once upon a time, our secondary schools were like higher institutions, but today our universities, with a few exceptions, are no better than secondary schools, and the secondary schools are no better than poultries. In those days, there were school principals who were more famous than state governors, commissioners, and traditional rulers, because they were known for their ability to manage schools and produce excellent students. There were government schools, there were mission schools, there were private schools, but there were standards, competition and quality.  

        A whole generation of students has now passed through the Nigerian education system without any memory of those good old days. What they know is the story of distracted teachers who sell handouts or beg for money from parents. What they know is the tragedy of a school system where teachers are perpetually protesting about lack of pay, lack of facilities and the inadequacy of everything. What they know are lecherous male teachers asking for sex in exchange for marks. What they know are ugly campuses, with no toilet facilities, no water, no light. When they hear about the gown, what they imagine is a gown in tatters, now terribly disconnected from the town. In our time, companies and government departments came to campuses or the NYSC camp to recruit staff, the school-to-work transition was so smooth and certain that even nurses and midwives upon graduation were sure of a decent future.  

       As an undergraduate, our room was cleaned, our beds were laid, and the cafeteria fed us well at cheap rates; we had water, we had uninterrupted electricity supply, our teachers were smart and committed, life was good. There were students in Nigerian universities from all parts of the world; the ones from Southern Africa were even sponsored by the Nigerian government and they were happy to be here, so happy some of them focused on our girls and caused problems each time they got drunk. But today, who will send a student to Nigeria?

     Everything changed the moment government went mad, and till date that madness has not been cured. That madness started in 1984 with the removal of education subsidy. My point is: the present administration must see the need to properly define the role of government in the education sector, and further work out the details about sustainable development. The rot of past decades is so deep, the crisis so bad, as has been described, and the marks are still evident, only sustained intervention can make the difference. And if I may say so, this is one sector where government subsidy will be a good idea.

        It is of course clear that President Buhari in his second coming wants to be remembered as the man who fixed Nigeria.  He tried it in his first coming but he didn’t have a definite mandate. Now, he has the people’s mandate, plus extra-ordinary goodwill, and he is still determined to achieve his original objective. He wants to catch thieves. Fine.  The only irony is that even General Sani Abacha did exactly the same thing, but other governments came and rewrote the narrative. Thief-catching is certainly okay! Perfect. It will excite the mob, extract vengeance, and may be promote justice, but President Buhari must begin to look to the future and build his own concrete legacy.  His record in Nigeria in the long run, will be his legacy, but it must be that kind of legacy that cannot be re-written by revisionists.   

      So, what then, is his legacy project? I believe he can capture the society at the younger level: by investing in the historians of tomorrow and making their today better; by re-creating the future of Nigeria, by atoning for the past, by using public funds to secure the future of Nigerian children. Those young boys and girls in Nigerian public schools who are being poorly served, sitting in badly shaped classrooms, being taught by unpaid teachers; those undergraduates in higher institutions who graduate and have to be re-schooled by their employers before they can be found manageable; those graduates who learn research and science by simulation and who cannot compete in the international arena of skills; those unhappy teachers in our schools who are busy looking for other jobs on the side; all the children in special schools who have been forgotten by government, all the Nigerian children who are out of school, all those boys and kids who graduate from university but know nothing - they all need President Buhari. And time is not on his side.  And he cannot do it alone.  Many state Governors have shown that they take their cue from him: most of them refused to appoint Commissioners, until he appointed Ministers. They should be part of this legacy project.  

     The President should launch an aggressive restoration programme in the education sector that takes off from where the Jonathan administration signed off.  The rot is so age-long, so deep, that no Nigerian President in many years to come can ever have enough time to fix all the problems with Nigeria. But every President that comes along can either leave a scratch, a mark, or a legacy.   It is up to President Buhari to make his choice.  Salaam. 

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50 teachers killed, 520 schools, 1000 classrooms destroyed by B-Haram — Borno Govt

THE Borno State Government has revealed that not less than 350 teachers have been killed, with over 520 schools and 1,000 classrooms destroyed by Boko Haram since 2009.
The Chairman, Borno State  Universal Basic Education Board,  SUBEB, Dr. Shettima Kullima, stated this while breifing journalists at the 14th  quarterly meeting of the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, management with Executive Chairmen of SUBEBs, in Abuja themed: Consolidating Basic Education in Nigeria: The Challenges and the Way Forward.
He said the number of students killed is yet to be known because of the Boko Haram occupation of some of the territories.
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, while declaring the meeting open, said the Federal Government would ensure that SUBEB chairmen who mismanaged resources would be penalized.
Reiterating the commitment of the state government in re-constructing the destroyed schools, he said: “…in fact, the insurgents destroyed more than 520 schools which translate to over 1,000 classrooms. They also killed more than 350 teachers while the number of students that were killed is uncertain because some of the villages where the schools are located are still under the occupation of the insurgents.”
On efforts the state government is making to ensure that children are in school, he said: “In most of the areas where the insurgents are not occupying, like Maiduguri, Chadi, Biokusa and even the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, schools are going on there.
“Apart from the state government, we are yet to get any support from anywhere particularly from the former administration that treated the state as if we were worse than conquered territory.

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BIAFRA: Why govt must avoid use of force — ORJI Kalu

Amid sliding value of the Naira, mounting complaints by private sector players on the tottering state of the economy, all appears not to be well with the state of affairs of Nigeria. But, it is not time to despair, says former Abia State Governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, as President Muhammadu Buhari is making efforts to rework the economy. In an interview with journalists in Lagos, at the weekend, on arrival from the United Kingdom, Kalu said Buhari should be given enough time to deliver on his promises as he grapples with the burden of surmountinmg Nigeria’s multi faceted challenges.
By Kenneth Ehijiator

On the pro-Biafra Republic protests

Those boys are right, they have a right to demonstrate, but not violent demonstration, not killing soldiers because if I am a Commander- in -Chief, and you kill one of my soldiers, I will kill everybody. You cannot kill soldiers. You cannot kill police. You have a right to say no, we want our own Republic. The United Nations charter gives them the right to ask for self-determination. It is not a right to go and destroy people’s properties or to go and destroy Nigerian Armed Forces, whether it is Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy or Nigerian Police.
If I am president, I will set up either traditional rulers and some political leaders to go and ask the boys what they really want, what is really their problem, what can be done to stop them from asking for this? This was how Boko Haram started killing members of Catholic Church, and as a Catholic, I spoke vehemently against it. I told you airport correspondents that they will finish killing the Catholic and will go and start killing everybody and it happened.
When kidnapping started, then I was governor, they were kidnapping white people and I spoke out. I said when they finished kidnapping white people and there were no more white man to kidnap, they would start kidnapping us and that is what is happening in the country today.

So, I will advise the Federal Government: This is a federation, you need to manage the federation. Some people must ask for self-determination. It is the management of the people that matters. President Buhari, as a matter of fact, should set out traditional rulers, set out people, set out security and intelligent agencies to intervene. They should be more intelligent than policemen or military people carrying guns. They should find a way and tell the boys that what they are doing is not the right thing to do. So, it is left for the Federal Government. This is the right time to nip the agitation in the bud, but not by force. It is a wrong strategy hearing people saying that we will quench it by force. We cannot quench anything by force because it is their right to ask for self- determination.
But is it the right thing to do in a bigger country like ours? It is only a president that doesn’t know what he wants that will want a section of his country to go. I think negotiation is part of democracy.
I have seen your Enugu-Port Harcourt, Aba-Umahia express road that have not been built, I will build it in two years; I have seen your Awka-Onitsha express way that is not built, I will build it in two years; I have seen that your Umuahia-Ohafia to Aruchukuwu to Cross River express way is not built, I will do it. I have seen that your Arondizuogu-Okigwe express way is not done, I will do it.
I have seen that your Enugu to Makurdi express way is bad, people are dying there every day.
This was what I quarrelled with the government over it in 2001. I said our roads are bad. Federal roads are very bad and they are taking it for granted. Check what I have said 10 years ago, they are recurring today and the government is still playing with it, people are still doing politics with it.

What is your take on plans by some state governors to either sack workers on cut down on salaries of civil servants?

It is a truism that all is not well with the state of Nigeria’s financial economy. The current situation, if the truth must be told, is that we are in dire straits. This time calls for deep reflection and serious financial reengineering by managers of the public sector.
This requires creative, strategic and visionary leadership by leaders at all levels because the reality is that the the resources accruing from crude oil sales are dwindling by the day on account of falling oil prices in the international market.

Financial obligations

Above all, leadership is about the ability to take the right decisions at the right time by putting the people first. State governors should cut down on frivolous expenses in order to meet their financial obligations especially workers’ salaries and payment to pensioners.
If it means converting a portion of the security vote to fix serious responsibilities, it is worth it.
This is because many state governors allegedly siphon the so -called security vote. We must learn to live within our means as a way to sustain a decent life. Governors should leverage on other revenue sources to complement the federal allocation. The era of depending on a mono product economy is long over.
On the need for President Muhammadu Buhari and his team to hammer out serious economic interventions or measures to revive the economy

Orji Uzor Kalu

I cannot agree with you any less on this matter. In fact, any casual observer of the Nigerian economic situation knows that things are not looking up. As some observers have out put it, the economic house is falling, if urgent steps are not taken we may be heading for trouble economically.
Put in a parable, we could situate the economic reality by seeing President Buhari as the manager of the economy as a distributor who has distributed goods to his customers, he came back to the market, all his customers closed the door, he didn’t see anybody to collect money from.

Dilemma of the president

He called somebody and said break the door, any door he broke, nothing was seen so he went back to all the shops, there was nothing inside the shops, he didn’t see the goods he supplied them and he didn’t find any money that the shop owners were supposed to pay. That is the dilemma of the president, if I can say. He didn’t tell me but this is what I feel.
I feel strongly that it will take the president the next two to three years to sort out this problem. Nigerians are always in a hurry and I am surprised. Change don’t come easy. What the president is doing is what he is supposed to do.

How do you think the president is feeling in this dismal scenario you have painted?

The president should be having hypertension now but I am sure he is confused himself because the goods he supplied are still there even if he does not have his money.
You know  I am not a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, so, I don’t speak for them. What I speak is the truth and people should not be expecting President Buhari to do miracles.
I am not a member of his party but he is a very close friend of mine and you should not be expecting President Buhari to do miracles. I don’t expect him to do miracle, there is no miracle in this business, he has to take his time.
The situation is made worse because oil prices have gone down and everybody is looking if there will be any slight change in the third quarter of 2016.
Nigerians just elected their president for change and they want to see the change immediately.
It is not possible, the president has to take his time, he has to take account of what he has seen and what he has not seen. From what I am hearing, they have not even started to ask questions about where our money has gone to. So many people said that many officials still need to answer some questions. My reading is that President Buhari as our leader is very unlucky, he came into the saddle of leadership for a change during a very difficult time.

What is your take on efforts by the Buhari administration to recover looted funds by the past regime through the anti – corruption measures already in place?

I think President Buhari is on track in his efforts to recover looted funds by the past administration. The anti-corruption measure is not a drawback as some critics may want to see it. Given the malfeasance that took place in the last regime, the president is handling the situation very well. It is not a drawback at all. Buhari should know who he should call because there was massive looting, I am sure most people didn’t want to listen to some people like us, who were shouting about what happened in the last administration.
We said that there was corruption and the corruption that we saw in the last administration was very high. I told airport correspondents in one of my interview sessions when I landed at the Lagos Airport that there was corruption in the last regime.
Though, I am a friend of the former president but I speak the truth, I told you people that I came from Emirates, Dubai and I have never seen the kind of corruption I was seeing then in Nigeria; people were carrying the dollar by hand. Journalists confronted me that why couldn’t I advise the former president and I remember telling them that beyond friendship the country comes first. And you people asked me, ‘are you not a friend of Jonathan? I said, ‘yes, I am his friend and so what? Our country comes first .’
So, I am still standing here. If Buhari does a bad thing tomorrow, I will caution him. I have written letters to former president Olusegun  Obasanjo, I have written to Jonathan although the one of Jonathan is not in the public and I wrote letters to Yar ‘Adua when he was president so I am sure Nigerians should be patient with President Buhari.

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JAMB Registration 2016/2017 Officially Begins - Important Guidelines

The JAMB Portal for 2016/2017 UTME registration has been enabled, signifying the official commencement of registration for the 2016/2017 UTME.

We are creating this thread to guide candidates on the registration process to avoid the usual mistakes associated with registering for an external examination like this.

Candidates are advised to read the instructions below carefully before proceeding with the registration.

1. Obtain the JAMB registration scratch card from any of the following banks; Zenith Bank, Sky Bank and First Bank at the cost of N5000 (Five Thousand Naira). You will be expected to pay additional N500 (Five Hundred Naira) to obtain the textbook, "The Last Days at Forcados High School". Making it N5,500 (Five thousand Five Hundred Naira). However, if you already have the book, you need not pay for it.
The book will be issued to candidates who paid for it at the point of registration after showing evidence of payment. All candidates will be tested on this book during the examination.

2. After obtaining the scratch card, candidates are to download a pdf file copy of the 2016 UTME Registration template at the end of this post before proceeding to an accredited JAMB Registration Centre. 

You are expected to fill the template carefully and correctly. The information on the template is what will be uploaded as your details on JAMB portal during registration. 

It is important to note here that details like your name, Date of Birth, State of Origin, Gender and Examination Town cannot be changed after submitting your application. 

3. You are advised to check and ensure that your chosen course is offered by your choice institution. You can ascertain that via this link: Check Institutions and Courses

4. It is also important that you consult the JAMB Brochure as to know the specific UTME Subject combination for your particular course. The brochure is available online now via this link: JAMB Latest Brochure

5. After completing the template, candidates are to proceed to an accredited JAMB Registration Centre. . The list of JAMB accredited JAMB registration Centres in your area can be accessed via this link: JAMB Accredited Registration Centres
6. Ensure that you have a recent Passport Photograph (not older than 3 months) before visiting a Registration Centre.

7. Check through the information entered by whoever that is assisting you on the registration to avoid given a wrong information that will affect you later during admission exercise. Candidates are therefore advised to stay with the person assisting them on the registration all through the process. 

8. Ensure that your Biometrics Fingerprints data is captured during the process

Note: The deadline for sales of form is January 15, 2016. While the registration website is expected to close January 19th, 2016.

Like you must have known, The UTME will be 100% Computer Based Test (CBT).

In view of this, if you run your own Cybercafe or Business Centre, you can take opportunity of this to set a CBT training centre where candidates can undergo CBT training for a fee or better still buy the JAMB CBT Practice Software directly from you. Find how to make this happen by clicking here

Also, candidates are advised to take advantage of the JAMB CBT preparation tools on myschool.com.ng for adequate preparation and success in 2016 UTME.

These preparation tools include;

(1)The online Myschool CBT classroom that allows you practice JAMB questions for FREE. Click here now to access the classroom.

(2)The Myschool JAMB CBT Practice Software (This requires no internet to work). It works only on computer systems. Click here now to get this.
(3)The Myschool Mobile Android CBT App (This also does not require internet but only works on mobile android phones and contains up to 30,000 past questions. Click here now to get this.

(4) The JAMB Online Syllables that guides you on the topics you need to study and focus on. Click here to access this now.

5) The JAMB Online Brochure that will guide you while making choices on the institution and courses to choose as well as pointing out the required UTME subject combination. Access this now byclicking here

6) You equally need to stay updated with the latest information on JAMB. You can always access this updates via this link:http://myschool.com.ng/jamb/

If you run your own Cybercafe or Business Centre why not take opportunity of this to set a CBT training centre where candidates can undergo CBT training for a fee or better still buy the JAMB CBT Practice Software directly from you. Find how to make this happen now by clicking here

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NYSC DG says the ban on wearing of hijab in camps will not be lifted

Members of Muslim Youths in Da’wah on Tuesday had a peaceful protest at the headquarters of the National Youth Service Corps in Abuja against the ban on the use of hijab by female Muslim corps members, especially during orientation camps.
However the Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier-General, Johnson Olawumi, insisted on the ban, saying it was “for security reasons” and will not be lifted. 

The national coordinator of LMYiD, Luqman Hassan; and the Deputy Coordinator, Kamarudeen Adefila, had told the NYSC DG that a major protest by Muslims was averted because of the ban on hijab in most orientation camps.

Hassan told the DG:

“We are here to discuss with you about the incident that happened recently in various camps across the country. We have a guiding principle which is based on the Holy Q’uran. We are all Nigerians and the principle which guides us is the constitution and the African Charter on Human rights.

“Members of the NYSC are Nigerians who have contributed to the development of this country; female corps members deserve protection by the NYSC. We don’t believe that a female corps member putting on hijab has done any wrong against the Act establishing the NYSC. So they deserve the respect of the NYSC. We have travelled far and wide and visited different camps. Why are the rights of female corps members being infringed upon. We are here to register our displeasure.”

“Many Muslim organisations wanted to protest, but we said wait a while. In fact, we have to intervene to avoid the situation and if Muslims march on the streets, it will attract a lot of negative comments, but people won’t know why we are protesting,” Adefila had added.

Olawumi said:

“Under my leadership, the NYSC will accord respect to every corps member, irrespective of tribe and religion. The incident in Benue State was caused by the use of long hijab. The security situation in the country is tough. There is the danger of somebody using hijab for other reasons.

“Why are you so particular on your alleged infraction on the rights of youths without mentioning any one of such on Christian youths? Produce your evidence, write to us and I can assure you that we will act fast. When the incident in Benue State was reported to us, I swung into action and ensured that the camp commandant was decamped immediately. We are not magicians; if you have any evidence, write to us and we will not hesitate to act.”

The NYSC Legal Adviser, Ahmed Tijani Ibrahim, said the incident in Benue State was still being  investigated.

He said,:

"I’m a Muslim and in our camps, I know that we have treated everybody equally. You mentioned the fact that you would have proceeded to protest. Very minor issues could trigger off mass protest.

“We will see the way forward to this complaint. I can assure you that the issue will not be swept under the carpet. The NYSC is very sensitive to the issue of religion and immediately we heard of it, we swung into action and we are on it because issues of religion are very sensitive.”

Punch 

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