KSU Post-UTME/DE Registration and Screening 2014/2015 Announced

This is to inform the prospective candidates of the Kogi State University that 2014/2015 post-UTME registration has commenced.

Eligibility
Candidates who chose the institution as their MOST PREFFERED institution AND SCORED 180 AND ABOVE

Candidates who made the institution second choice should not register


The procedure for registration is as follows:

1. Confirmation of your name through the university portal (www.ksuportal.edu.ng) for eligibility.

2. Payment of N2, 300.00 at any branch of Zenith Bank into Post UTME acoount number 1130036448 and obtain a login in PIN.

3. Login with the PIN code on the ksu portal for registration, details include; names, State and LG origin, faculty/department, course of study, JAMB reg. No. and score, passport, phone number and email address.

4.Candidates will be required to upload a scanned copy of their passport photographs (file size not more than 20kb) with red background.

5. Print out a form containing your details with examination date and time.

Pls kindly note that candidates with JAMB score below 180 are not qualify for the screening.

Screening Details
Candidates will be screened through a computer based test in their subject combinations similar to UTME.

Screening date for UTME candidates 15th-19sept, 2014
While that of DE candidates is 23rd-25th September.


Application deadline
Registration closes on 12th September for UTME candidates and September 20th for Direct Entry (DE) candidates.

NOTE

Candidates MUST arrive at the Proffessor F.S. Idachaba Lecture Theater ONE HOUR before their scheduled time to ensure proper briefing and accreditation

Candidates are prohibited from coming into the examination hall with phones(s), Flash drive, Modem, Biro, Pencil and/or any Electronic gadgets

For more information click here 

FUOYE Admission List 2014/2015 Released

This is to inform the under-listed candidates that they have been offered Provisional Admissions into degree Programmes of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

NOTE!

Candidates should discountenance any information that is not from this website and should not entertain text messages or phone calls from any other source. Any Candidate who disregards this warning does it at his/her own risk.


FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
DEPARTMENT OF AGRIC ECONS AND EXTENSION
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FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND HEALTH
S/N REG NO NAME
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FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
DEPARTMENT OF CROP SCIENCE AND HORTICULTURE
S/N REG NO NAME
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FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE
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FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
S/N REG NO NAME
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FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND AGRO-MET.
S/N REG NO NAME
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25 45576203GJ ISAIAH TITILOPE ELIZABETH
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40 47772533JF OGUNDEJI MARY IBIDUN
41 45409584IF SALAMI OLUWATOYIN DORCAS
42 47252282CB UGWU KELECHI AUGUSTINE


FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47636983CE ADEBAYO MOBOLAJI DAVID
2 45567893HA OFORKANSI SHADRACH CHIAZAM
3 47515822EI OGUNRUKU OMOTADE JOHN
4 47065906EB UZOMA COLLINS ARINZE
5 47169247DA SARUMI OYINKANSOLA ADEOLA
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7 46052463AC ALABI DANIEL OLUWATOBI
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9 47291088AD POPOOLA JOSEPH AKOLADE
10 47207836IB AREMU OLUWASEYI JOSEPH
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12 47204014AE ANOSIKE GENESIS IFEDAYO
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14 47258813CC OLOWOOKERE AYODEJI MICHEAL
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18 46055984BC ALABI SHERIFFDEEN OPEYEMI
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20 45176810AH ADEJO GEORGE ODE
21 47360711HC HAMMED BLESSING OLAOLUWA
22 47162662JE OKORO ONYEKACHI JEREMIAH
23 47296450BJ ANDRE OLUMIDE LAJU

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47068238CJ OLUKAYODE STEPHEN SEUN
2 45789732HA ONYEAGBA GODBLESS ONYEDIKACHI
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8 47059081EJ TIJANI WASIU BIDEMI
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10 47066896HI BOLARINWA KAYODE WALE
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13 45541636HH ADEJUMO IDRIS ORIYOMI
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25 47612439DD OGBAJI WILLIAMS OGBECHE
26 45110651CC DAVID-ROBERTS RAPHAEL ABIOLA
27 47633571HF SOWOLE ABIOLA ESTHER


FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS AND METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47167390HC ADENIYI ELIZABETH MOSUNMOLA
2 47197296HJ ADETOYI SAMSON OLUSEUN
3 47206936GF ADEDIGBA OLUWAPELUMI EMMANUEL
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8 47405501EH SHAROMO ARUNA OSHIOBUGIE
9 47558485AC YEKEEN RASHEED AKINLABI
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11 47186319DA OMISORE TEMITAYO TEMITOPE
12 45498293CJ JEJE AYOKUNLE TOBILOBA
13 46246039BD MOSADOMI OREOFEOLUWA AKINKUNMI
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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING
OPTION (A) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
S/N REG NO NAME
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10 45569061FI DADA KEHINDE SAMUEL
11 47287208AD OLAGBENRO ADEOLA GABRIEL
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15 47377114EC JENYO JOHN AYOOLA
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20 47178875FC OJO PHILIP AYODELE
21 47298031CJ EZE CHUKWUDI JOSEPH
22 47450905CD IGHOR PRINCE WISDOM


FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING
OPTION (B) MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47313554CA ALIYU ADEIZA EMMANUEL
2 47132934DI AGBEMUKO DAVID IFEOLUWA
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5 45644050DE ADEWOYE SOLOMON SEGUN
6 47404182CH OLANIYI TAOFEEQ OLATUNDE
7 45638977CE OKANLAWON OLAYEMI MICHEAL
8 47487643AB pooTU NAEEMULLAHI AYOOLA
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12 47507660JA DADA IFEOLUWANI ADEDOTUN
13 47195024AI FAYOSE DAVID OLUWAFEMI
14 47065083IF MILAM GODWIN PARGOL
15 47064063EB AWOYE OLADIMEJI ABDULRAZAQ
16 47318796AI AYEDUN BOLUWATIFE MIRACLE
17 45621068BD OYENIYI SODIQ BABATUNDE
18 47638223IH TIJANI ABDULKAREEM AL-MUSTAPHA
19 46063187DE UTSU CHRISTIAN AKOMAYE
20 47351114FE BUKAR ABDULKADIR BIU
21 47284736EH AKINGBOYE OLUWATOSIN EMMANUEL


FACULTY OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47188842CH ADEWOLE TIMILEHIN VINCENT
2 47064814BJ AJUNWA SYLVESTER CHIBUIKE
3 47599842JB AKINRINDE JAMIU OLATUNDE
4 47191455EF HAMILTON-SCOTT BOLUWATIFE A
5 47192287HB OJO OLUWAGBENGA EMMANUEL
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8 47387468CA JEGEDE TEMITOPE EMMANUEL
9 47310554JG SHOKUNBI IBRAHEEM TOMIWA
10 47234808GD OLANIYI JESUPEMI EUNICE
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12 47068061HF AFOLAMI OLUWAPELUMI SAMUEL
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19 45635060DI OLOFINYOKUM BLESSING DAMILOLA
20 47235345AE ADEBISI RAPHAEL TIMILEYIN
21 45409605CC AHMED HAUWA YETUNDE
22 47198068JB OGUNNIRAN EMMANUEL OLAOLUWA


FACULTY OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF GEOPHYSICS
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47066600JD ADEBAYO OLAMILEKAN SODIQ
2 46090446CI ANIFOWOSHE ILERIOLUWA DANIEL
3 47161827HH ATIKU VICTOR OLUWAFUNLOLA
4 47286202BE EKHARO HOPE ESUALASE
5 47577328CE DADA OYEWUNMI JANET
6 46132838BJ ADEYEMI TOSIN DANIEL
7 47613603DD AKINBOBOSE OLUDEJI OLUMIDE
8 47064935EE FAMILOYO TOSIN SAMUEL
9 47059036IH OLAOYE OLUWASEUN EMMANUEL
10 47298341GJ AGBEBUNMI OLUWAPELUMI O

FACULTY OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47502242EI SALIU SOFIAT OIZA
2 47055421GI OSANYINTOBA ADERONKE EUNICE
3 47360906GJ ADESIGBIN ABAYOMI MOSES
4 46216475EH YUSUF OLUWAPELUMI DORCAS
5 47062962EG OLANIYI OLAMIDE SAMUEL
6 45643569CC OGUNNIYI PRECIOUS OLUWATOSIN
7 47164845EE OLAOYE ESTHER AYOMIDE
8 47719694BH ONYEJIAKA CHIZARAM JERRY
9 47064927GI AYOOLA IBRAHIM OLANREWAJU
10 47300648DF OLABODE IDOWU REBECCA
11 45614072EJ ADEYEMI OLUMIDE JOHNSON
12 47167210DA OLUWAKUADE BAMIDELE TOSIN
13 47553662BI OLANIYAN SAHEED AYOFE
14 47497857BB SOMUYIWA ANUOLUWAPO ESTHER
15 47137140DA BELLO ABDULLAH TEMITOPE
16 48006126EE SUNDAY OLAIYA PAUL


FACULTY OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47404739AF ADENIJI TOLUWALASE OLUTUNDE
2 47677265EA ADELUSI OLUSEGUN PAUL
3 46045877GJ OLATUNJI TOLULOPE EMMANUEL
4 47406279EB ATUNMOBI BABATUNDE ROTIMI
5 47202429AG FABUNMI BENJAMIN AYODEJI
6 47403114DA KOLADE SHERIFF ADEKUNLE
7 47395661HJ RASAQ IDRIS ABAYOMI
8 46078111HG AFOLAYAN ADESOYE OLANREWAJU
9 45316961EJ EMMANUEL FAVOUR O.
10 47066305AI ADELEYE FOLASADE OLAMIDE
11 47054776GD OLORUNFEMI RONKE DORCAS
12 47187369IB OLAGUNJU SARAFADEEN WALE

FACULTY OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47066125GD ADEYEYE OLUWANIFEMI HAPPINESS
2 47065934FE OYINLOYE ABIODUN EMMANUEL
3 46268444BJ OLUWAYEMI OLABANJI 0
4 47182196IA OLADEJI SEYE JULIUS
5 45224977DG AYANGBEMI TAOFEEK DAMILOLA
6 47061522AB OWOLABI OLAJUMOKE VICTORIA
7 47065133DC MEPAIYEDA SOPHIA MOJISOLA
8 47302805GD OMOLEWA TOYOSI MOYOSORE
9 47183477CA FAFIYEBI EMMANUEL OPEYEMI
10 45872198CC AYODELE RONKE JEMIMAH
11 46300297AF ADEBISI AYOMIDE BLESSING
12 47193347JC IBIKUNLE DORCAS OLUWAPELUMI
13 47235647GI ADEYEMO NURUDEEN ADIGUN
14 47361674JD OLADAYO AYOMIDE TOLUWANI
15 47065516EH AKINDUNTIRE FUNMILAYO SARAH
16 47194511JC AFOLABI DAMILOLA ELIZABETH
17 47069574JF JOHNSON REGINA ABOSEDE
18 47505413EB QUARSHIE DORIS OLUWAKEMI
19 45638774FB MAKANJUOLA EMMAUNEL ADURAGBEMI
20 46049825FJ GIWA RUKAYAT ARINOLA
21 47158277FH ALLISION AISHAT OREOLUWA
22 46230539FA SUNNY-BOB FUNMILAYO KEMI


FACULTY OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
S/N REG NO NAME
1 45776589CA RUKERA SUNDAY STEPHEN
2 47182939IC KOMOLAFE TOBI EBENEZER
3 47192533BC FAFOWORA OLUWATOSIN JOHNSON
4 47164597BC EMEFESI VICTOR CHIDURUOM
5 47544212EE GODWIN MICHAEL UBONG
6 46122624AJ OKORO KELVIN OTHUKE
7 47192904GD OLUSENI OLAMIDE STEPHEN

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF DEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL STATISTICS
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47206179AI FAGBEMI OLUSEYI ELIJAH
2 47497932HH OKUNUGA OLUWADAMILOLA EMMANUEL
3 48018544DI DARAMOLA ABIODUN TEMITOPE
4 45644687GD OLADEJO ABDULGANIY AYODELE
5 47067272BH SALAUDEEN ABDULWASIU ADEREMI
6 47065863HD AYODELE SAMUEL SEGUN
7 45077995CA OLAJIMBITI OLUWAFEMI ISAAC
8 47546889GE ODEBODE ADEDOLAPO EMMANUEL
9 47614866CH AKINWUMI TEMITOPE REBECCA
10 47546339GF FALANA BLESSING DAMILOLA
11 47312302JA FALODUN OLUWATOSIN EMMANUEL
12 47067718DH AJIBOYE FUNMILAYO JOSEPHINE
13 47066827JB JIMOH IBUKUN MATHEW
14 47280247DB IBITOYE DAMILOLA EMMANUEL
15 47311881JC SONIRAN ARINOLA ZAINAB
16 47684083FD EZE UCHE JOSHUA


FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47207945EF SUNDAY PETER OLUWASEYI
2 47401025IJ OBASANYA OREOLUWA ESTHER
3 47315006CJ OLUNUGA ADEOLUWA KENNEDY
4 47172028CJ OMONIYI SAMUEL BOLUWAJI
5 47057508BF LOOKMAN OMOTOYOSI UTHMAN
6 47141476CA TIJANI SEMIRA OLAJUMOKE
7 47163627BC BABATUNDE OLUWAFEMI ANDREW
8 47462949HC ABOLUWADE GBENGA AKINYEMI
9 47064906DE OKONTA CHINENYE OLAWUNMI
10 47064830GI OLUWADARE JOHNSON TOLULOPE
11 47056078DH AGBEYO BABATOPE SAMUEL
12 47067276AF AKINDELE MARY AYODEJI
13 47067493DD AYESORO OLUWATOBILOBA E
14 47067018AD TAIWO REBECCA OMOLAYO
15 46050705DI ADENIYI SIKIRU Nill
16 47130569FC AKANBI OLUWABUSAYOMI JULIANA
17 47297614BJ TALABI TOSIN IFEOLUWA
18 46212810IB ADEAGBO ADENIYI OLUWASEYI
19 45497534HF POPOOLA OLAYINKA SOLOMON
20 47198040HI FAMOYEGUN OREOLUWA OLUWATONI
21 47065964GB OLUGBOJI OLUWADAMILOLA M
22 46133678CB AJAYI OREOLUWA FAYOKEMI
23 47253817HC ADEJUMO YUSUF ADEYEMI
24 47195503CG OLADEJI SODIQ OLOLADE
25 47163087IA OTOKITI OLUSAYO SMART
26 47358218IC AKAMO AYODEJI MICHEAL
27 46132606DG FASINA TOLUWANI EBENEZER
28 45678059FB AJOMOLE AYOMIDE STEPHEN
29 47066910DG BADMUS ABDULRASHEED TEMITOPE
30 47717335BD OJO ADEBOLA J
31 47058839JG BANWO ANUOLUWAPO FELICIA
32 45220425BF OLATUNJI SUKURAT OLUWATOBI
33 47264753FA OLORUNFEMI OPEYEMI BOSE
34 47613424IF OLUFEMI ADEMOLA DAVID
35 47062279FI KOLAWOLE OLALEKAN MICHEAL
36 47109081BB TOLUHI TODIMU DAVID
37 45646286BJ SHOYEMI IYANUOLUWA OLAMIDE
38 47318806HF GURUSA IYANUOLUWA DORCAS
39 46214804BG EDEM OFFIONG PATRICK
40 47242089EF EDWARD OLUJIMI NOAH
41 48018702EJ ADEBISI EMMANUEL PELUMI
42 47065497AH OSUNGADE ADEBUKOLA ADEBIMPE
43 47067345IJ MADAMORI MAYOKUN OLORUNMOLA
44 47138107DJ AJOSE OLUMIDE LAWAL
45 47151859AI EDUN DEBORAH OLUWATOYIN
46 47311246FH SHUAIB IBIYEMI MOTUNRAYO
47 47166719EI IORTYOM HANNAH MSUGHTER
48 47159353DA OKWE EZEKIEL OGBU
49 47763520HB ENYI KENNETH HESS
50 47063156EG OVOKE EMMANUEL VICTOR
51 47411587CF OMINI SUNDAY J

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES
S/N REG NO NAME
1 47065918AF ALADE BLESSING MODUPE
2 47253841JH BABAYEMI DAMILOLA DOYINSOLA
3 47243573FF EKORD REBECCA EMMANUEL
4 47067289GD OGUNMOLU EBUNOLUWA ESTHER
5 47189066DE AMURE SEGUN EMMANUEL
6 47065478GE ADEYEMO TAIWO CHRISTIANA
7 47067963HI OYIBO EMILIA OGHENEFAVWEH
8 47160031DD ADEOSUN KOLADE STEPHEN
9 47064871EC SANGODEYI FEHINTOLA AYOMIDE
10 47065359DD GODFREY PEACE TEMITOPE
11 46120447EB OGBONNAYA PATIENCE NGOZIKA
12 48020553CF ADENEKAN SAMSON KEHINDE
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AAU Admission List 2014/2015 Released

This is to inform candidates that took part in the 2014/2015 post-UTME screening exercise that the admission list has been released.

Candidates can now access the admission list simply by clicking here

Enter your Application Number

Enter you PIN

Click on "Submit"

UNIPORT Merit Admission List 2014/2015 Released

This is to inform candidates who took part in the 2014/2015 post-UTME screening exercise of the University of Port-Harcourt (UNIPORT) that the Merit Admission List has been released.

Candidates can check if their names appear on the list by simply clicking here
 

ABSU Releases Admission List 2014/2015

This is to inform the general Public and all Abia State University aspirants that ABSU have released its 2014/2015 Merit Admission List.


The list is available only on the school's notice board.

FUWukari Pre-Degree Programme 2014/2015 Announced

Federal University Wukari announces its 2014/2015 Pre-Degree Admission.

Eligibility
All candidates are expected to possess five (5) credits at SSCE (or equivalent) in science based subjects at not more than 2 sitting. Subjects required are English Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Agricultural Sciences.

Application & Registration Procedure
Application fee for FUW Pre-Degree programme is Five Thousand Naira only (5,000)

Method of Application
Pay the Application fee of 5,000 at the University cash office (Bursary) and obtain your application fee receipt

Go to FUW Pre-Degree programme office and collect the application form.

Complete the Application Form and submit at the
Pre-Degree office.

Application and registration closes 20th October 2014.

Entrance examination will be on 25th October 2014.

Tuition Fee is 50,000.00

Lecture starts on 4th November, 2014

Disclaimer
All candidates should note that FUW has not authorized any person(s) or agent(s) to sell application forms on its behalf.

Signed
I. A. Jalingo
Registrar & Secretary to Council
Federal University Wukari
Taraba State.

DELSU Merit Admission List 2014/2015 Released

This is to inform candidates who took part in the 2014/2015 post-UTME screening exercise of Delta State University, Abraka that the Merit Admission List has been released by the school.

To check your if your name appears in the list of admitted students simply click here

Enter your UTME Application Number (JAMB Reg. Number)

Click on "Check"

LASU 2nd Round Post-UTME Screening Exercise 2014/2015 Announced

1. APPLICATION
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the Lagos State University 2014/2015 Post UTME Screening Tests, for candidates seeking admission via UTME (100 level). These screening tests are mandatory require
ments for entry into Lagos State University.

2. ELIGIBILITY:
(i) Candidates that have scored a minimum of 180 marks are eligible to participate in the Post- UTME Screening Tests. In addition, candidates must be at least 16 years of age.

NOTE:
Students who want to change to LASU are eligible to apply also.
(ii) Candidates of Lagos State origin, for 100 & 200 levels will be required (if Admitted) to prove their claims before the Independent Indigeneship Verification Committee (IIVC) set up by the Lagos State University.
(iii) Candidates should note that ONLY the accredited courses listed below are available for the 2014/2015 Academic Session.

S/N FACULTY DEPARTMENT
1. ARTS
-Yoruba & Communication Arts
-English
-Arabic
-French
-Christian Religious Studies
-Islamic Religious Studies
-History & International Studies
-Philosophy
-Music
-Theatre Arts
-Portuguese / English

2. EDUCATION
-Arabic Education
-CRS Education
-Islamic Studies Education
-English Education
-French Education
-History & International Studies Education
-Yoruba Education
-Biology Education
-Chemistry Education
-Mathematics Education
-Physics Education
-Physical & Health Education
-Health Education
-Computer Science Education
-Educational Technology
-Business Education
-Accounting Education
-Educational Management
-Geography Education
-Economics Education
-Political Science Education

3. MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
-Public Administration
- Marketing
- Banking & Finance
- Management Technology
-Industrial Relations and Personnel Management
-Insurance

4. SCIENCE
-Botany
-Chemistry
-Fisheries & Aquatic Biology
-Mathematics
-Physics
-Zoology
-Computer Science

5. SOCIAL SCIENCES
-Geography & Planning
-Psychology
-Political Science
-Sociology

6. SCHOOL OF TRANSPORT
-Transport

7. ENGINEERING
-Mechanical Engineering
-Electronics & Computer Engineering
-Chemical and Polymer Engineering


METHOD OF APPLICATION
ONLINE PAYMENT
1. Prospective students will visit putme.lasu.edu.ng and select MAKE PAYMENT option in the drop down list at the top, to make the required payment of N2,000 for the 2014/2015 LASU Post UTME screening exercise.
The prospective student would be required to submit the following:
a)JAMB Registration Number;
b) Surname, First name, Middle name, and
c)Email Address and telephone number (both must be active and personal to the applicant)

2. Click on PROCEED

3. On the next page, a TRANSACTION ID to be used for PAYMENT would be displayed. The candidate should copy this TRANSACTION ID and proceed for PAYMENT at http://www.quickteller.com/lasu

4. On http://www.quickteller.com/lasu page,
(i) Click on PAY
(ii) Enter your email address, GSM number
(iii) Also enter the Transaction ID copied in step 3 above
(iv) Proceed to enter details of your ATM card
(v) Click Process payment
(vi) Print your Payment receipt from the screen. A transaction message will be sent to your email and GSM, hence the need to use your personal E-mail address and GSM number.

POST UTME REGISTRATION
1. After successful payment for LASU 2014/2015 Post UTME screening exercise, return to putme.lasu.edu.ng and select CONTINUE REGISTRATION option in the drop down list at the top.

2. Prospective candidates should enter the required details (JAMB Registration Number, Surname and Mode of Entry – UME or DE).

3.Click on PROCEED button to load the Registration Form. Each applicant is expected to complete the registration form by providing the following information.

Candidates will be required to upload a scanned copy of their passport size photograph (File Size: Not more than 20KB; File format: JPEG [i.e. ‘.jpg’]).

Application for change of passport photograph by the candidates given provisional admission shall NOT be allowed. This same passport photograph, uploaded by such candidates, will be used on their degree certificates.

ONLY ONE CHOICE OF COURSE OF STUDY IS ALLOWED

Carefully study the agreement form. If you agree to the stated terms, click on the ‘I agree’ button on the left-hand side of the page.

Note:
If you do not agree to the stated terms you will not be permitted to go beyond this point.
Please read and understand the terms before registering.

Fill in all required details contained on the online registration form. Confirm THAT DETAILS ARE ACCURATE then click FINISH. To make changes, before you click finish, you may click on the Edit button.

Candidates must possess five (5) O’ Level credits in subjects relevant to their desired course of study at not more than two sittings.

Credit in English Language is compulsory for admission into all courses in Lagos State University.

Candidates awaiting the result of NABTEB, WAEC (May/June) and NECO (June/July) 2014, are eligible to apply.

Note that any examination taken after July 2014 shall not be accepted. Make sure you print your Registration Form/Slip as this serves as your entry ticket into the
Screening hall.

Candidate should know that both payment and registration would end two (2) weeks before the advertised date of the Screening Test.

Candidate should visit www.putme.lasu.edu.ng a week before the advertised date of the Screening Test to check the Sitting Arrangement and reprint the Registration Slip.

Registration for the payment of application fee for the 2ndPost UTME Screening starts from Friday, 27th August, 2014 and registration closes on Tuesday, 23rd September, 2014.

SCREENING DETAILS
DATE OF EXAMINATION: THURSDAY, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 2014
VENUE: LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, MAIN CAMPUS, BADAGRY
EXPRESSWAY OJO.

For more details of the screening click here and scroll down to the bottom of the page.

The detailed results of the screening tests shall b
e published on the LASU website:www.lasu.edu.ng
on Saturday, 27th September, 2014

Fed Poly Ado-Ekiti Re-schedules Post-UTME 2014 Registration Deadline

This is to inform the general public and Students hoping to write the FPA POST UTME Exam that the Exam slated for 1st September 2014 has been POSTPONED to 22nd September, 2014. To this effect the sales of FPA POST UTME Form is still made available until 19th of September, 2014. The NEW DATE for the Exam is now 22nd September, 2014, subsequently the Time-Table for the Exam will be made available shortly.

Also,candidates that a Computer Based Testing (CBT) preparatory Exam towards the forth coming POST UTME Exams has been scheduled to hold between 8th to 15th of September 2014.

Buhari, Atiku, others know fate in Oct

The All Progressives Congress has said it will conduct a primary election in which at least 300,000 of its members will determine its presidential candidate for the 2015 election.

The party said it would not adopt the delegate system in the primary election, but the modified direct system, which would involve such number of people that would be difficult for aspirants to buy over.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary made this known at the end of the party’s first National Executive Council meeting in Abuja.

He said the party’s primaries for all positions would commence in October.

The party also condemned the various political rallies already being held for President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid.

He said unlike the PDP which would automatically adopt President Jonathan as its candidate, the APC would hold a credible primary election for all positions.

It said the Peoples Democratic Party and President Jonathan are by the rallies violating electoral guidelines with impunity.

It also said for the forthcoming October 11 governorship bye-election in Adamawa State to be free and fair, the Federal Government must lift the curfew imposed on the state during the period of the election.

Mohammed explained that the party’s call for the lifting of the curfew in the state did not imply calling for the termination of emergency rule in the state.

While it maintained that the party would win the forthcoming October 11 governorship bye-election in Adamawa State, it said the recent defection of the pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to the PDP would not have any adverse effect on its fortune in the state.

Ribadu had contested the 2011 presidential election on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria, which was one of the opposition party that merged to become the APC.

Already, former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and others are said to be making underground moves to emerge if possible as the party’s consensus candidate.

Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State and the Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, though still a member of the PDP have been tipped as possible candidates of the APC in the 2015 presidential election.

Buhari, Atiku, Kwankwaso, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, Rochas Okorocha of Imo, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State were among those who attended the NEC meeting.

Other South-West governors of Lagos, Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, a national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu were absent.

Away from its tradition of adopting consensus candidates for various elections, Mohammed said on Thursday, that the party would conduct primaries to ensure that candidates who would emerge on its platform.

Mohammed said, “It is going to be direct. We would want to see the greatest participation of our members.

“We obviously, definitely, will not adopt a delegate convention because delegate election has probably about 6,000 delegates. What we are thinking about will involve almost 300,000 people.

“For presidential election what we are thinking about, we will make sure that elected officials from the ward level, local government level, state level, national EXCO, the caucus,members of Board of Trustees of the party, all elected officials on the platform of the party, council chairmen, councillors, House of Assembly members, National Assembly members are all eligible to participate in the choice of who is going to be the flag bearer of the party at whatever level.

“Of course when it comes to the presidential election, we will be talking about over 300,000 people because there are about 8,000 wards all over Niigeria today, and in each ward we have about 25 officers. If you multiply 25 by 8,000 you already have about 200,000 people.

“If you now move to Local government level, you have about 774 local governments in the country and in each again, we have about 20 officers; 20 multiply by 774, we have about 20,000. This way, we believe we are going to make sure whoever emerges as the candidate of the party has support of the party at the most grassroot level which is the ward level.

“You are including executives in 8,000 wards all over Nigeria. That alone will give you about 200,000 as opposed to 6,000 or 7,000 delegates that would have participated.

“I think it will be more difficult to buy over 200,000 people than 7,000 people.”

It said the party would be adopting a modified version of the direct primary, which he said was one of the options prescribed by the Independent National Electoral Commission for parties to choose their candidates for various elections.

He said, “The party discussed guidelines of primaries, and principally, the party has decided that the primaries will start as early as October.

“We would want to ensure the participation of a large section of our people. We have opted on what we called a modified direct primary for the party.

“INEC says, you either do a direct or indirect primary. We’ve opted for the direct. We’ve opted for a method that will ensure the largest participation of our members.

“We now called it modified because we are also aware of certain constraints to getting all your 20million of members or thereabout to queue up for elections especially in areas where we have security challenges like Yobe and Adamawa states.

“So we are working out a formula that will still enable the largest members of our party to participate. What I can assure you is that we are not settling for delegates election. We want to get people from the grassroot to be involved in our primaries because we want to show the world that we are different, and that our party and our primaries will be not only be grassroots inspired, it will also be transparent and it will be free.”

Mohammed also said the party commended INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega, for stating that hooded security men would not be used for future elections in the country.

On the rallies for Jonathan’s second term bid, Mohammed lamented that the president and his party were violating the electoral guidelines without anybody to challenge them.

He said, “I think the PDP has already come up with its candidate. I think we must be fooling ourselves if we think that all these orchestrated dramas about asking Jonathan to come and run are to believed.

“But what we are saying is that Mr. President and the PDP are violating the electoral guidelines with impunity and nobody to stop them.

“But I can assure you that we, in the APC are not threatened by the emergence of any candidate. The only thing that is threatening us is the absence of a level playing field.

“If today a free and fair election is conducted in Nigeria we are very confident that we are going to defeat PDP. But we will insist that a level playing field is procured.”

On Ribadu’s defection, the party said it was not worried, as the exit of just one person would not affect its fortune in the forthcoming Adamawa election.

Mohammed said, “The beauty of our politics is the freedom of association. No party will want to lose any of its member, but frankly speaking, we believe that the APC is such a strong brand with a strong followership in Adamawa and all over Nigeria that the defection of any one person will not adversely affect our fortune and we have moved on.”

He added that the party’s demand for lifting of curfew during the bye-election in Adamawa was to ensure a free and fair election.

He said, “I think one thing the party insisted on with the state of emergency in Adamawa State today for the election to be free and fair, the party will insist that the curfew, imposed on the state be lifted and temporarily during the election time.

“I don’t want to be misquoted, I don’t want to be misunderstood, we are not saying they should lift state of emergency, we are saying the curfew must be suspended for the period of the election.”

2013/2014 ATBU Postgraduate Candidates Admission List is Out

The management of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi has published the postgraduate admission list of candidates admitted into the institution for the 2013/2014 academic session.
How To Check ATBU Postgraduate List 2014:

Postgraduate applicants are required to visit the admissions status checking portal from the link below to access the admission list;

>>ATBU POSTGRADUATE LIST 2014<<

Admitted students are advised to get the PIN for downloading admission letter by paying for it at FCMB, ATBU Yelwa Campus, and collect the PIN at the ATBU Bursary Cash Office, Yelwa Campus.

You can then proceed to download your ADMISSION LETTER from the following link;

ATBU POSTGRADUATE ADMISSION LETTER

Keeping your business going in digital age

Often, I try as much as possible to hammer it in to as many companies and brands that care to listen that consumers have changed. Consumers have evolved over time. They have so much changed that many companies and brands should try as much as possible to catch up with the pace of the changes.

In fact, it’s like a Toyota Camr.y 728 horsepower trying to catch up with a La Ferrari of 949 horsepower; an impossible dream for a Toyota Camry. Man is programmed to adapt to changes in his environment. It’s a law of nature – the same with factors that influences the consumer to change over time. It is advisable and smart for companies to get ahead of consumers. They should always be a step ahead of consumers. How? Put yourselves in your consumer’s shoes.

Years ago, customers have always believed what brands tell them in adverts and commercial messages. They take it hook line and sinker. It made the then consumers scared of change when making their buying decisions. They prefer to stick to a product rather than try other products. While growing up my mother sticked to a particular detergent because she felt that was the best brand in the market. As I grew old I found myself buying the same detergent. Suddenly, one day I decided to take a leap of faith to try another brand I have heard so much about. I got an outstanding result and I’ve tried several detergents over and over based on the information I’ve gotten over time. What turned the former consumers to today’s consumers?

•Exposure to Information: The rate at which people exchange information is as fast as the speed of light. The social media platform is really a good source of information. The social media pushes out tons of information every second. Consumers all over the world find it as a good place to seek referral and have a background check before making a purchase decision. There are numerous websites that have basic information about products and best brands in market. In fact some websites have the current market prices. Companies and brands can no longer hoard information about their products. People have already aired their opinions about your products. It’s just a matter of searching for information concerning the product online.

•Price consciousness: Consumers have always been price conscious. The consumer is a selfish being; always thinking of himself. Price is always at the centre of the consumers purchase decision and it will remain the same. What has made today’s consumers more price conscious is the extreme alertness not to feel cheated.

•Technology usage: Presently, we live in a technological world. Technology is shaping virtually everything we do today. Unconsciously even the illiterate is using loads of technology. For example, the infiltration of mobile phones has made people more conversant with technology. People now browse the Internet on the go. People can listen to radio on the go. People now share files on the go. However, thousands of apps are assisting consumer make good purchase decisions. They know which companies and brands are doing well in the market via these Apps.

•Referrals: Consumers can now check out product reviews; as well as get referrals online. Personally, I check movie reviews online by people who have seen the movie I’m about to watch. Referrals and reviews are basically unique to today’s consumers because they are blunt truth. Now, consumers prefer to listen to fellow consumers a thousand times over than being cajoled by brand messages and gimmicks. Some consumers are influencing other consumers without knowing. A simple post on your social media on how good a product is speaks volume of such a product.

•Customer care service: Gone are the days brands can get away with treating customers badly. Today’s customers are very different; they know their rights and the appropriate quarters to air their frustrations. Brands are upgrading their customer service often, devising new methods of pleasing their customers especially with the aid of social media platforms. This has made customers feel more powerful than never before. Brands that don’t put customer care as a priority in pleasing customers and keeping their customers are finding it difficult to retain the customers they have. The customer care service has created a craving of power for customers because they feel in control.

Don’t look today’s consumers like the consumers of old; really, they’ve changed. What better way to keep your business a going concern than to go with the change.

Apply for EKSU Supplementary Post-UTME & DE Screening 2014

Eksu supplementary post utme and direct entry screening form 2014 is out. This is to inform all UTME and DE candidates seeking admission into Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti for the 2014/2015 academic session that the supplementary screening form is now available.

The screening is open to candidates who chose EKSU in the 2014 UTME and scored 180/or above. The university will also give consideration to UTME candidates who did not choose EKSU but obtained 180 and above in their exam.

Direct Entry Candidates are directed to participate in the screening exam in order to secure admission.

Procedure For Application:

Interested candidates are to pay the sum of Four Thousand Naira (4,000.00) only covering registration, processing and downloading of past questions to any branch of the following banks through e-tranzact platform and obtain a confirmation code which will be on the e-tranzact receipt;

Access Bank, Ecobank, Enterprise Bank, First Bank, GTB, Wema Bank, Zenith Bank, UBA Plc.

The confirmation codes will be used to register online by the candidates. Candidates can also pay directly via the University portal using ATM cards and SMS alerts will be sent to the candidate containing the confirmation code.

Candidates are required to log on to www.eksu.edu.ng with their JAMB reg number and confirmation code, upload a 1″ x 1″ coloured passport photograph in red background and JPEG format only. Preview, confirm, submit and immediately print-out an acknowledgement slip.

EKSU will admit only candidates that made at least 5 credit passes in SSCE/NECO/WASC/NABTEB in the relevant subjects at two sittings only. DE candidates must have Upper Credits in various Diploma courses.

SCREENING DATE & DETAILS
The screening exam will hold between Tuesday 9th to Wednesday 10th September, 2014 at the university campus.
Candidates are to come for the screening with the following;
a. JAMB Registration Slip.
b. Acknowledgment Slip printed out from the University portal.
c. 1″x1″ recent passport with red background.
Candidates are to report at the University Auditorium on the day of the exam for necessary briefing. Failure to attend the screening exam will cause the candidate to forfeit admission.

CLOSING DATE
Application portal closes on midnight of Monday 8th September, 2014.

Should I quit my job and be self-employed?

Fred works for an accounting firm for over seven years and thinks he won’t ever make partner. He is a very unhappy guy and desperately wants out. He thinks he should quit and set up his own. Wale, has been in banking for about a decade and believes his experience and connection earned over the years is enough for him to quit and start his own. Tinu just gave birth to a third child and is in her 4th month of maternity. She has discussed with her husband about her fear of returning to her grueling sales job and they have both pondered whether this is now the time for them to try something new. She has always had a passion for planning events.

Stories like these all point to one common question. Should I quit my job and be self-employed? It’s a questions that resonates in the minds of nearly every employee seeking to go solo. Whilst it’s not a bad thing to be self-employed, there are a few things one actually needs to take into consideration. Here are my thoughts.

Bills, bills, bills

The moment you decide to quit your job to start yours you no longer rely on a steady stream of income to take care of the bills. Most business don’t make money immediately and even when they do, you need to reinvest it for it to grow. As such, you want to make sure you have some money set aside in an emergency fund to take care of bills for at least six months to one year. If you are married and have kids, you may also want to consider if your other half can at least take care of the basic bills. Don’t quit if you don’t have an answer to who pays the bills.

Passion

Most successful entrepreneurs will tell you passion is an important factor to being successful. You hear them say, getting paid for what you love doing is one of the best feelings you can ever have. I like to put such thoughts into context. If you are passionate about what you currently do then it doesn’t really matter whether you are self-employed or not. The only thing that should matter is whether you get paid very well for it. You only have to change your mindset and think of yourself more as a contractor than an employee. There is no point leaving a job that you love just so that you can start yours even when the economics don’t look right. After all some employees earn more than businesses.

Courage

Forget luck, money, contacts and even passion. To be a successful entrepreneur you must have the courage and tenacity for survival. Being tenacious and courageous don’t come easy. It takes a lot of courage to decide you want to quit your job to be on your own, let alone have the courage to remain there when the chips are down. Taking hard decisions such as firing employees, outsmarting competitors, owed debts and standing up to creditors and shareholders does require a unique kind of courage and tenacity that is not thought in any school. Don’t bother quitting your job if you lack courage. If you are not sure you do, better ask someone who can tell you the truth.

Problem

I mentioned passion as one of those things we can count on in deciding whether to quit your job or not. However, whatever it is you are passionate about must be able to solve a problem as well as getting paid for it. There is no point leaving your job a paid job because you want to start a business no one will be interested in patronizing let alone paying for. Every business solves a problem for its customers and you get paid depending on how important the problem is and how well you market your solution.

Plan

If you tick the boxes above and still believe you should quit your job then consider writing a business plan first before you sign that resignation letter. Most people start businesses without a business plan believing that all they want to do is in their head. Sorry, not in this time and age. A business plan will be required by your investor (even if it’s your husband or wife), lenders, venture capitalist etc. There are several tools online that can help you with writing a business plan or get someone to write it for you. Most people change their mind after seeing their business plan. The startup cost all of a sudden is now N5million and not N500, 000. Competition is rife and the idea is not new like you thought it

Funding

Every business needs funds to survive so this is a no brainer. As a new business, you can either bootstrap the business yourself or get people to provide the funding. Without doing a proper business plan and feasibility it is nearly impossible to know how much it requires to fund it. Don’t bother resigning if you haven’t figured out how to go about this.

Finally

You need not feel bad if your plans to go solo isn’t working. It’s perhaps not the right time to do it or maybe you have to plan better. Maybe you even need a change of job and not to quit yours.

FUOTUOKE Primary Admission List for 2014/2015 Session

Fuotuoke admission list 2014 is out. This is to inform the general public that the management of Federal University Otuoke (FUOTUOKE) has released the Primary/JAMB Merit admission list of candidates admitted into the institution for the 2014/2015 Academic Session.

Fuotuoke Post-UTME candidates can now check their admission status from the university’s portal.
How To Check 2014/2015 Fuotuoke Admission List:

Candidates are advised to visit the FUOTUOKE Admission Status Portal from the link below to access the admission list. The admission list is grouped in Faculties/Departments.

>>Fuotuoke Admission Portal<<

UNILAG Students ID Card Data Capture Date is Out

This is to notify all University of Lagos (UNILAG) students that the capturing of signatures and photographs of students for the production of identity cards will commence on Wednesday, August 20 and end on Wednesday, September 3, 2014.

Below is the schedule for the exercise which will hold from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily at the Akintunde Ojo Library Basement, UNILAG Main Campus, Akoka:
Day 1     Wednesday,  August 20, 2014     Faculty of Arts
Day 2     Thursday, August 21, 2014     Faculty of Business Administration
Day 3     Friday, August 22, 2014     Faculty of Education
Day 4     Monday, August 25, 2014     Faculty of Engineering
Day 5     Tuesday,  August 26, 2014     Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Day 6     Wednesday, August 27, 2014     Faculty of Law
Day 7     Thursday, August 28,  2014     College of Medicine
Day 8     Friday, August 29, 2014     Faculty of Pharmacy
Day 9     Monday, September 1, 2014     Faculty of Social Sciences
Day 10     Tuesday, September 2, 2014     Faculty of Science
Day 11     Wednesday, September  3, 2014     Mop-Up exercise

All students are to adhere strictly to this timetable.

How WAEC contributes to candidates’ failure

The West African Examinations Council recently released the results of the 2014 May/June West African Senior School Certificate examination. Again, the examination recorded massive failure by candidates. I am not going to bother about the shameful statistics. It is already in the public domain. But the result was not surprising. In fact, it was expected. Stakeholders, familiar with the dismal trend in recent years, were not surprised. WAEC has in a sense, become a messenger of doom. As an educator, I have also always had mixed feelings during the waiting period between when the examination is written and released. It is always a heart-stopping experience because no matter how hard you prepare, with WAEC, you never know what to expect. It has almost become a gamble for reasons I will attempt to explain in this piece.

For me, every examination cycle brings with it a feeling of anxiety in an environment where concern and doubts have arisen about the effectiveness and quality of coordination, script grading and evaluation of candidates by WAEC Nigeria. If every year candidates continue to fail woefully in an examination they spent three years of senior secondary school preparing for, then its time WAEC began a critical self- evaluation of its own performance. Why are candidates failing? Should they be failing so massively given the preparation that go into sitting for the exam?

For those who are not aware, preparing a student for SSCE is a demanding and rigorous exercise for schools, teachers and parents. A bit of explanation will suffice here. Preparation for the SSCE starts as soon as a student gets into Senior Secondary 1, commonly known as SS1. The WAEC syllabus covers the entire period of the three-year senior school curriculum. Technically, a student starts the preparation for the examination three years before it is written. The May/June examination is thus a culmination of three years of senior school curriculum and study. The syllabus also makes it clear that final questions will be based on the three-year senior school curriculum.

In preparing for the examination, schools and teachers often start in the first year of senior secondary school. They grill their students right from the word go because they know what is at stake. All the project work, assignments, homework, group and individual tasks are geared towards one goal: to ensure success in the examination. Schools that are aware of the importance of not just passing SSCE also use the curriculum to impart important life skills commensurate with the age of their students. As learning is not just for passing examinations alone, the senior school also offers the opportunity for life changing school trips, excursions, debates and quizzes.

Add these to the remedial classes and three years of personal study put in by students, the efforts of the school, teachers and parents, then you will get the complete picture of why we should look beyond the usual arguments often advanced for candidates’ failure. In spite of all the rigours of preparing for the exam, the results keep getting worse. Why is this so? The well-worn arguments often border on fundamental issues facing our educational system. But there have also been some improvement in the sector. For example, a growing number of private and public schools have improved on the quality of instruction and training of teachers. If students are failing, then we must also question WAEC in the way it conducts exam and evaluates candidates. Is WAEC not infallible or beyond reproach? Who are its current examiners? Are they doing a thorough job of evaluating the scripts based on the ability of individual candidates? How do the welfare and remuneration of examiners affect their disposition to grading of scripts? How does WAEC respond to the allegation of fatigue with just a few examiners to grade thousands of scripts? Are they patient enough? I have had cause in the past to question the proficiency of WAEC examiners. Sometimes, I wonder if during grading, examiners are aware that the scripts are symbolically tied to the future of candidates who would have put in their best in a difficult situation.

As Nigerians yearly confront the national disgrace that heralds the release of result, WAEC cannot continue to play the ostrich. It shares a major part of the blame for candidates’ serial failure. For example, a visit to WAEC coordination centres across the country will reveal the appalling condition under which examiners work as they grapple with thousands of scripts. The poor remuneration of its examiners by WAEC also affects the quality of work. I am aware that in the last few years, the quality of the examiners has also dropped. Many experienced and qualified examiners have retired. Competent and qualified examiners are discouraged with the poor treatment by WAEC. Payment per-script is as low as N11 per script. It is scandalous. A visit to WAEC coordination centres will also reveal the chaos that attends handling of scripts; examiners are also shabbily treated by WAEC staff.

There are also obvious marking guide errors by WAEC which examiners are not allowed to correct. Many of these mistakes lead to the failure of students in the subjects. For one, the quality of grading has dropped over the years. Those who joined the examiners rank are discouraged because of obvious incompetence on the part of WAEC and lack of motivation. WAEC has also largely contributed to examination failure because it has refused to build the capacity of examiners. For long, there has not been any form of capacity building like conferences, seminars and workshops that will reinforce best practices in test evaluation. WAEC officials also lack the necessary training to continue to function in a rapidly changing world. Clearly, the Nigerian factor has eaten deep into the fabric of the exam body. All they are interested in is to just make money from candidates. Allegations that WAEC deliberately fail candidates to increase yearly registration should not be discountenanced too.

Really, why should an examiner go through the rigours of coordinating and grading only to get peanuts not commensurate with the global standards? By contrast, Nigerian examiners grading foreign examinations such as IGCSE, TOEFL and London GCE are well-paid. Many even jostle to be listed as examiners by paying to write the qualifying examination conducted by The British Council. In the end, it is the hapless candidates and their parents that are made to bear the brunt of WAEC’s inefficiency. For example, what are the criteria for being an examiner of WAEC? No qualifying examination except for the examiners subject experience. As of now, anybody can become an examiner. The rule is not strict.

At the height of candidates’ failure is also the allegation of financial impropriety in WAEC Nigeria. How can an examination body charge so much only to deliver so little in terms of welfare of its workers and ad hoc staff? Yet, it is these few, poorly paid and fatigued examiners that will eventually grade millions of scripts. Sadly, the alternative all-Nigerian examination body, the National Examination Council has also been disappointing. While I agree we must fix our educational system to improve standards, WAEC must also re-organise to serve the needs of candidates. Stakeholders must beam the searchlight on WAEC activities. This endemic national disgrace must not be allowed to continue.

Banks may reject third-party ATM cards

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Wednesday said Deposit Money Banks might be forced to reject Automated Teller Machine transactions other than theirs if customers failed to accept the N65 ATM service charge it recently re-introduced.

The central bank had come under severe criticism over the reintroduction of the ATM charge last week, two years after it abolished the N100 fee per withdrawal on third-party ATMs.

It noted that customers using other banks’ ATMs would from September 1, 2014, pay N65 fee on the fourth of such transaction within a month.

The CBN said the cost of maintaining the ATMs was too much for the banks to bear and this formed part of the reasons why it, in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee, reintroduced the charge on bank customers.

The Director of Corporate Communications, CBN, Mr. Ibrahim Mu’azu, explained in a statement that the new charge would help the banks to keep more ATMs serviceable across the country, thereby making banking more convenient for customers.

He added that the N100 was never removed, but was only transferred to customers’ bank to pay.

“Maintaining ATM is expensive and it requires economic incentive for the owners to deploy and maintain these machines. If a part of this cost goes unabated, the banks may be forced to reject transactions coming from their customers at another bank’s ATMs, thereby frustrating the interoperability of the payment systems,” he said.

Mu’azu maintained that the new charge was not intended to discourage financial inclusion, adding that the CBN would not endorse any anti-customer policy.

“Charging of fees on interbank networks is a widely acceptable practice globally,” he stated

According to him, the new ATM charge will ensure that customers get better services, while increasing healthy competition among the banks.

The CBN director also claimed that transaction volumes at other banks’ ATM had increased astronomically owing to what he described as “free cash withdrawal” on other banks’ ATMs.

Consequently, Mu’azu said the development had made the wear and tear as well as the frequency of servicing the ATMs to increase significantly.

“Indeed, some customers were beginning to abuse the use of ATMs through countless daily withdrawals; this development has led to an increase in cash transactions, which negate the central bank’s cash-less policy,” he said.

“The CBN wishes, therefore, to reassure the public that the long-term interests and welfare of all bank customers remain the goal of all banking policies,” he added.

Hoodlums kill five, damage vehicles in Lagos

Residents of Daodu Lane, Opeoluwa, Somore, Jones, Atitebi and Brickfield streets in the Ebute Meta area of Lagos have lost their peace after no fewer than five people were killed in a cult clash on Tuesday.

About 12 vehicles parked on the road were also vandalised by hoodlums who unleashed terror on the community.

It was learnt that four of the dead victims were suspected cult members who were hacked to death, while the fifth victim, identified only as Rafiu, a tailor and resident of Daodu Lane, was hit by a stray bullet.

One of the deceased cultists was identified simply as Obokun.

A source said, “The fight was between Ilogbo boys, led by a man we know as Skippo, and Otto boys. The Ilogbo boys had the support of some hoodlums from Ebute Meta East.

“On Tuesday, the Otto boys attacked the Ilogbo gang and killed about four of them.

“Policemen from Federal SARS came and unfortunately, a tailor was mistakenly gunned down in the exchange of gunfire.”

However, another resident, who pleaded anonymity, explained that the Ilogbo boys came on a reprisal in the evening and killed five among the Otto boys.

“People that were killed yesterday cannot be less than 10. As you can see, the whole area is tensed. It was gun battle throughout yesterday and we all had to run,” he added.

A shopkeeper, who did not identify himself, said the hoodlums also used the opportunity to loot shops.

He said, “The cultists I saw were about 25 in number. I don’t know the faction, but they were led by a heavily-built man. Three men in the gang held guns while the others had other weapons.

“They entered my shop and packed jeans and shoes. They also took all the money they saw.”

Our correspondents, who visited the area on Wednesday, observed that many street gates were shut and shops were locked up.

Many residents said they had to leave the area to sleep in other communities because of the continuous gunshots.

Our correspondents observed three residents ─ a woman and two youths ─ who carried travelling bags and bade farewell to fellow residents.

Around 2pm, while our correspondents were still interviewing residents, a series of gunshots rent the air, sending anxious residents scampering for safety.

On Jones Street, our correspondents counted 12 vehicles that had been vandalised, just as broken bottles littered the road.

A woman, who claimed her car was among those vandalised, said, “I was in tears yesterday when I saw what they did to my car: they broke the front and back windscreens. I was told I would need N50, 000 to repair the car.”

A resident said the government should deploy the military in the area as the police seemed overwhelmed.

A community leader said, “The problem is beyond the police because this fight has a political undertone. The military can control these ceaseless killings.”

The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Lelma Kolle, while confirming the incident, said the police recovered four corpses.

He added that nine of the suspects had been arrested.

He said, “We received a distress call around 2pm that something was happening at the Ilogbo area.

“On getting the information, the Area Commander, together with police officers from Iponri Police Station, and officials from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, mobilised and went there.”

OAU new School Fees cannot be Changed

Following the recent announcement of the re-opening of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, the school’s authority has warned the students against causing any disruption to academic activities in the institution.

Announcing this stance in an interview published on National Mirror, the OAU Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju, explains reasons behind the current school fee increment and why it cannot be changed. Excerpts:

OAU campus has been shut for more than two months due to students’ protest, how can you justify the closure?

The closure is to allow peace to reign and to let public know that the university management has respect for human lives and property. The Senate of the university decided to close down the campus when the students were protesting the minor adjustments in the fees payable by them and we felt that being the best university in Nigeria for the fourth time running now, we should be able to use what we have as a standard and maintain such standard because the financial standing of the university could not in all be used to sustain the standard that OAU is noted for all over the world.

What are the details of these new fees?

Let me begin by giving you the background to the new fee regime so that we will all understand the issue. The university did not just wake up overnight to increase its fees. The management felt the economic realities does not support the payment of N5,300, N7,800,and N10,300 per session by each student depending on the courses of study which had been on for quite some years.

The university in conjunction with the senate decided that the fees should be adjusted to N19, 700 for those in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, while those in Sciences should be paying N33, 700. Are we saying that this money is too much for students in this university in this 21st Century? The economic realities of this country would not allow us to continue with the old rate, which had been on for the past 14 years. And when you consider those who use the facilities on the campus, you find out it is the students who consume more.

For instance, the university pays as much as N30 million electricity bill on monthly basis and more than 92 per cent of this electricity is consumed by the students because they are on the campus 24 hours using electric stoves, boiling rings and several other power consuming objects, yet they are the ones unwilling to pay.

So, if truly we want to sustain the academic sanctity of our school and our rating as the best university in Nigeria, the school management decided that it would be good to have more contribution from the parents to support what we get from the Federal Government in maintaining our standards. But the students decided to be unruly, and when the demonstration was turning violent, the university management in conjunction with the senate decided to shut down the school.

But you claimed the university had never increased fees in the last 14 years, what about the N20, 000 acceptance fee introduced about three years ago and other minor increments?

What happened then was a kind of adjustment in the accommodation. We all know that the university’s yearly business is to maintain the halls of residence by putting in new facilities which cost money and if we look at it closely, you will agree with me that the students themselves know the realities on ground because when they go outside campus to rent a house, they know how much they pay and they also know that when Power Holding Company of Nigeria takes electricity, they have no right to protest because they know it is not the fault of the landlords but anytime there’s electrical failure in the university environment for just a day, you will see them chanting ‘war’ songs.

The acceptance fee is part of the internally generated revenue for new students here. The students who are being asked to pay this fee are not yet our students because until the acceptance fee is paid and it should be clearly noted that this fees is meant for new students alone and not an additional fees to returning students.

It could be truth that the economic realities and the dwindling allocation may not support the needs of the university, but have you also considered the fact that most of the parents are also on N18, 000 minimum wage?

Before OAU decided to increase the fees, we did our homework very well. We went round most of the federal universities including the University of Lagos, Akoka and we discovered that out of all these universities, OAU was the only university where students were paying the most ridiculous fee. We had our points and the Senate of this university ratified everything, and it gave the management of the university go ahead. We must understand the fact that the Senate comprises professors from various disciplines of different faculties of this university. And on the case of parents earning N18, 000 minimum wage, are you saying because of that, the university should not charge fees?

The students that you are soliciting for, most of them uses BlackBerry, some of them are on monthly subscription of N5, 000 for different communication networks. If N5, 000 x 12 is 60,000, a student in this university who does that should be able to accord his or her education priority.

Anywhere in the world, OAU remains the university with the cheapest fees. Apart from this, you would agree with me that most of the students here attended private primary and secondary schools where they paid minimum of N40, 000 per term making N120, 000 per session. Are we saying that in all honesty, somebody whose parents could afford N120, 000 in a year at secondary level won’t be able to pay less than N80, 000 for university education? Or is it because we had made it lesser for people to come in when the economy of this country was buoyant? The students’ position cannot in anyway be justified.

So is the university saying its doors should be locked against children of the poor?

That is not possible and that is why the management has introduced new measures to accommodate the indigent students.

The Senate in conjunction with the VC has set up bursary and scholarships committee for the indigent students. We felt that brilliant students should not be deprived of having their educational attainment because we are all citizens of this country and so the business of the standing committee is to assess the applications from the indigent students in a fair manner so they can be assisted.

We sold ex-CAN president’s jeep for N600,000 ─ Suspect

A notorious member of the robbery gang that specialised in kidnapping and snatching of expensive cars in Ogun State, Akinde Olawale, said the gang sold a Prado jeep snatched from a former president, Christian Association of Nigeria, Bishop Jasper Akinola, for N600,000.

He made this confession while he was paraded before in Abeokuta with other two members of the gang, Azeez Ogunsola and Akingbade Kaleyemi.

Akinola, who is the former Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, identified the suspects as those who snatched his vehicle in December last year.

The market value of the jeep was put at N16m.

He said, “We sold the jeep to one Alhaji in Cotonou for N600,000 and my share from that operation was N200,000.”

When asked the name of the Alhaji, he said he could not remember, and he could not also remember the number of expensive cars they had snatched.

He told the police that he was a member of the notorious gang led by robbery kingpin, Abiodun Ogunjobi, popularly known as Godogodo, who was arrested in August last year.

Olawale explained that many of his neighbours knew him as a taxi driver adding that through the proceeds of robbery, he had built three houses in Ogun State.

He added, “I have two wives and three children, but they don’t live with me. And they don’t know what I do.

“I have been a robber for the past six years. Now, I regret taking to armed robbery. Please, tell the policemen to have mercy on me.”

The men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the state arrested Olawale, also known as Wewe, and Baba Oloye, with members of his gang last Sunday while they were about to attack the Baptist Church at Ota, in the Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area.

The State Police Commissioner, Mr. Ikemefuna Okoye,   while parading the three suspects which belonged to the robbery syndicate that had robbed prominent Nigerians including former football legend, Segun Odegbami, said the state would have peace.

He said, “While I want to commend our men for this breakthrough in the arrest of the notorious gang, I must add that the state will now heave a sigh of relief.

“This gang had been terrorising the state for sometime before they were apprehended last week. We recovered four AK-47, seven pistols, and assorted charms from them.”

Fire guts football federation’s headquarters

Fire on Wednesday gutted the Glass House headquarters of the Nigeria Football Federation in Wuse Zone 7, Abuja.

The Glass House is located within the same premises with the Federal Capital Territory Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps.

The fire, which was said to have started at about 9.30am, destroyed the offices of the NFF’s Chief Accountant, the Secretary General and the Information and Communications Technology Unit.

The fire was said to have started from the office of the Chief Accountant, from where it spread to other parts of the secretariat.

Sources said when the smoke was noticed in the Chief Accountant’s office, people rushed there, but could not gain access to the office because the door was locked.

Though officials of the NFF said the cause of the fire had not been identified as of the time the fire was put out at about 11 am, some NFF workers suspected it could have been triggered by an electrical fault within the Chief Accountant’s office.

Apart from some boxes which appeared untouched by the fire, the roof and the glass wall of the affected offices along with other items in the offices, including, computers, furniture and books were all destroyed.

No life was lost in the incident.

Firefighters were said to have arrived on the scene of the incident about 45 minutes after the fire started and were only able to contain the fire from extending to other parts of the building.

Our correspondent counted seven fire engines belonging to the Federal Service and the FCT Fire Service and another one belonging to Julius Berger Construction Company.

Sector Commander of the FRSC, Susan Ajenge, said she first noticed the fire from her office at about 9.30am and immediately deployed her men in the Glass House before the arrival of the firefighters.

Deputy Controller in Charge of Operations, FCT Fire Services, Mr. Julius Opetunsin, said he got the call about the incident at about 10.02am and immediately alerted his men who he said arrived on the scene about 15 minutes later.

Opetunsin said his men’s operation was delayed by eight minutes because the manner in which cars were parked within the premises prevented easy access.

He said, “I got the call at about 10.02am and I immediately alerted my men. When we got here at about a quarter past 10am, we could not immediately gain access because of the way vehicles were parked.

“We were delayed for about eight minutes. But we were still able to contain the fire from spreading to the other parts of the building.”

He said the cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained until an investigation was conducted.

“Before we can identify the cause of the fire incident, we have to carry out our investigation. That means we will have to first write the FCT minister, who will now direct us to carry out the investigation,” he said.

During an interaction with the NFF President, Mr. Aminu Maigari, Opetunsin said the damage caused by the fire could have been reduced if simple firefighting equipment was installed in the building.

“You need to get hose that members of your staff can easily roll when a fire incident happens. Fire incidents like this can be easily handled before they go out of hand if such equipment is installed in the building,” Opetunsin told Maigari.

The fire incident coincided with Maigari’s resumption to office on Wednesday, which came after he was reinstated to office.

Both Maigari and the Secretary-General of the NFF, Musa Amadu, in separate interviews, dismissed insinuations of possible sabotage and described the incident “as an act of God”.

Maigari said experts would be invited to assess the level of damage caused by the fire.

He said, “We take it as an act of God. We want to thank the firefighters for responding on time.”

FUNAAB working towards attaining World Standard

The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Prof. Olusola Oyewole, has reaffirmed the management’s determination to make the institution attain world-class standard.

Oyewole who made the disclosure during a three day Intensive training workshop, organised by the Directorate of Grants Management (DGM) said that this standard is being achieved by developing the capacities of staff; both academic and non-academic while admitting academically sound students.

The VC, represented at the event by the DVC (Academics), Prof. Waheed Adekojo, said: “we want to be at par with our colleagues worldwide”.

In his presentation, the Guest Speaker at the occasion, who is the Secretary-General, Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU), Professor Michael Faborode, said research was pivotal to economic growth, adding that it also addressed societal challenges. He noted that being a good teacher entailed being a good researcher.

He advised that universities should take advantage of NgREN, an innovation of the Federal Government, which FUNAAB was already connected to through networking with other Nigerian universities and the rest of the world.

Earlier, the Director of Directorate of Grants Management (DGM), Dr. Kolawole Adebayo, stated that five African countries were represented at the workshop, as he expressed his gratitude to management for making the workshop a reality.

Police nab four for snatching permanent voter cards

The police in Delta State on Wednesday said they had arrested four men who snatched permanent voter cards at Otu-Jeremi in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Celestina Kalu, said the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the area had received a report from the electoral officer in charge of the council, Mr. Uchechukwu Eze, that some people had stormed units 17 and 18 of Jeremi Ward 2 in Oginibo and snatched about 503 permanent voter cards meant for distribution.

She said“Based on the report, the DPO led patrol team to the areas where the INEC supervisor of the wards one, Iweobi Patricia, identified Bulless Mrikugbe, Raymond Justus Ese and Josiah Shetode as the culprits.

“The three suspects were promptly arrested. However, the 503 PVCs were later recovered abandoned near the motor park in Oginibo town.”

Kalu said in another part of the area, the police arrested one Felix Obokan for snatching 654 PVCs meant for distribution in unit 12, Ekakpamre ward.

She added that the police were able to recover the 654 PVCs.

“Meanwhile, investigation is in progress while all the recovered PVCs have been released to the electoral officer for Ughelli South LGA.”

In a related development in Erho-Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area, the PPRO said a youth corps member, Mr. Egugwu Mulaka, serving as a distribution official reported to the police the theft of 144 PVCs meant for distribution in unit six of the ward.

“Four persons suspected by the distribution officer have been arrested.

“They are helping the police in investigation

“Meanwhile, efforts are on to recover the stolen PVCs,” she said.

Man, 24, found dead in Benin

The corpse of a 25-year-old physically-challenged man was on Wednesday found on Oza Street, Off Sakponba Road in Benin.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the deceased, simply identified as Danjuma, died on Tuesday after he was abandoned by unknown persons in front of his uncle’s house.

The late man, who hailed from Plateau State, was said to have been dumped in a waste dump by his uncle, identified as Arase, who also threatened to deal with anyone who tried to rescue the boy.

It was gathered that succour, however, came the way of the late Danjuma when a female group, Forum for Nigerian Women in Politics, rescued him from the dump and took him to a private hospital in Benin, before he was later reportedly taken to the state ministry for women affairs.

But the deceased’s hope of survival was cut short, when unknown persons were said to have brought him back and left him in front of his uncle’s house last Thursday and later found dead on Tuesday.

Some residents, who declined mentioning their names, said that they woke up to find the lifeless body of the 24-year-old.

“I think he must have been brought here in the night on last Thursday, but I don’t know who brought him.

“We saw him dead yesterday,” one of them said.

However, when PUNCH Metro visited the street where Danjuma was abandoned, he was found under his wheelchair with sores on his feet.

The President of FONWIP, Mrs. Florence Gbinigie, who said she was surprised to see that the boy was dead, explained that she saw him lying lifeless beside his wheelchair.

She said, “I felt very sad because that was not how he was when he was discharged from the hospital.

“I noticed that he was dead with a lot of flies on his body so I covered him with a cloth.”

“The ministry should explain to us how the boy got here and how his case became worse to the point of death.

“They told us that they were taking care of the boy.

“So why did his condition become this bad?”

Efforts to reach the Ministry of Women Affairs and the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force on the matter were unsuccessful of press time.

UMYU Post Utme Test Result for 2014 is Out

The 2014/2015 UMYU Post Utme result is out. The management of Umaru Musa Yaradua University (UMYU), Katsina has released the results of the recently conducted 2014 Post-UTME Screening Examination.

The results can now be accessed online on the Umaru Musa Yaradua University online result checking portal.
How to Check 2014/2015 UMYU Post Utme Result:

Candidates are to follow the steps below to check their screening scores;

1) Visit the UMYU result checking website from the link below,

>>UMYU RESULT CHECKER<<

2) Enter your JAMB Reg. No. in the box

3) Click the Submit button to view your result.

Minister threatens to revoke N3.4bn contracts

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Steve Oru, has threatened to revoke the contracts for two of the nine skill acquisition centres in the Niger Delta over poor and delayed contract execution.

The two contracts are the Skill Acquisition Centre in Otuke, in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and the one for Ibeno in Akwa Ibom State awarded for N3.4bn.

The companies involved in the execution of the contract for the two centres are Stegis International Agencies Nigeria Limited, Salem Cat Limited, Enorasol International Limited, Ogbosite International Limited, El-Hanen Ventures Limited, Verity Concept Limited and Y.S. Associates Limited

The Otuoke Centre is expected to be a centre for the training of youths in oil and gas, maritime studies, Information and Communication Technology and how to assemble ipad and mobile telephones on completion.

The minister summoned the contracting firms to his office and lambasted them for shoddy execution of the contracts, which he said lacked the appropriate supervision.

He told the two contractors that the level and the quality of job done on the centres was too poor to be acceptable to the Federal Government.

He therefore issued a two-month ultimatum to the contractor handling the Otuoke Centre and a six-month period of grace to the firm handling the Ibeno Centre to complete the projects or face the wrath of the government.

He said, “The impression we had before the visit were of Otuoke being ready for commissioning by the President at any given date and that this would be followed by the commissioning of Ibeno.

“But contrary to what we had on paper in the office here when I was being briefed, we were in a state of shock by what we saw first at Otuoke, which we thought was already fully completed.

Chibok girls: Britain to send three Tornado planes

BRITAIN’s Royal Air Force   plans to send three fighter jets to help in locating the more than 200   schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14 this year.

The RAF Tornado GR4s equipped with surveillance facilities, according to Daily Mail on Wednesday, will undertake “reconnaissance missions” over the Sambissa Forest where the girls are believed to be held.

A   British government source told The Times that the jets would help the Nigerian authorities in tracking the movements of the insurgents.

The report however added that the mission was dependent on a nearby nation giving the British government the nod to use its runway.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman did not deny the report about the deployment of the planes.

He said, “The United Kingdom continues to work with the United States and France as well as Nigeria’s neighbours and international partners to provide advice and assistance to the Nigerian government.

“Together with our allies we have provided continuous surveillance support to the Nigerian authorities, including satellite imagery. We are still in discussion with partners on the deployment of further surveillance capability.”

Last Friday,   Britain’s Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, had condemned the abduction of over 100 people in Nigeria and had pledged that the UK would continue to support in the fight against Boko Haram.

He said, “I am appalled to see reports of another large abduction by terrorists in the North- East of Nigeria. Officials at the British High Commission in Abuja are urgently looking into the details. The UK stands firmly with Nigeria as it faces the scourge of Boko Haram.”

The group on Monday killed at least three people and kidnapped 15 others in a fresh cross-border attack in northern Cameroon.

“The attack took place on Monday afternoon when at least 20 armed men tried to get food supplies, stealing all the [food] stocks found in the Cameroonian village of Greya,” the source told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.

The source added, “Boko Haram militants killed at least three civilians and abducted a dozen others – presumably all Cameroonians.’’

Nigerian who may become first black British PM

On May 7, 2015, a Nigerian, Chuka Umunna, could make history by becoming the first black Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Born in London in 1978, Chuka was bred in the UK. His late father, Bennett, hailed from Anambra State while his Irish mother, Patricia, is a solicitor.

Co-incidentally, Chuka shares startling similarities with the United States President, Barack Obama, who is the first black President of the world’s most powerful nation.

For instance, Chuka is of mixed race, being the child of a Nigerian father and an Irish mother while Obama is also of mixed race, being the offspring of a white American woman and a Kenyan father. Also Chuka’s father, Bennett, was killed in a mysterious car accident in Nigeria in 1992 while Obama’s father was killed in a car accident in Kenya in 1982.

If history repeats itself as it is being predicted by British political observers, Chuka, who is also a six-foot tall lawyer like Obama, could become the first black Prime Minister in the UK.

Chuka’s life story is perhaps a better guide to his future political direction. It is the story of a rise from the streets of South London (scene of some of Britain’s worse race riots in the 1980s) to the parliament. But it is not the story that some might expect.

His father, Bennett, was a Nigerian labourer, who arrived in Britain in the sixties with one suitcase and no money. Having borrowed the fare from Liverpool to London, he worked in a carwash, became a successful businessman and died in a car crash when his son was 13.

Bennett began an import-export business trading with Nigeria and was starting to make a decent living when he met Patricia Milmo, a solicitor, at a London party. She happened to be the daughter of Sir Helenus Milmo, a Cambridge-educated High Court judge and a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trials. They later got married, a rare combination during a time of high social inequality and racism.

Chuka believed his father was killed because he refused to indulge in corrupt practices when he was running for the governorship of Anambra State during the administration of former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd.).

Bennett died after his car ran into a lorry carrying logs along the Onitsha-Owerri highway in Anambra. Bennett had been splitting his time between London and Nigeria – where he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Anambra State and had taken a stand against bribery.

At a point Bennett was also the owner of the Rangers International Football Club of Enugu, the darling of the Igbo people.

When quizzed about his father on Sky News, he had this to say: “There was a lot of speculation in Nigeria at the time around his death. He was a national political figure standing on an anti-corruption ticket and refused to bribe anybody.

“We don’t really talk about it because it is not going to bring him back but I think he would be bowled over that his son is now a politician just like him.”

Chuka, an English and French Law graduate from the University of Manchester, who also holds a Master’s degree from Nottingham Law School, says his interest in politics was shaped by seeing extreme poverty while visiting his father’s relatives in Nigeria and the social divide in his own Streatham constituency in the UK. He says that he is “not super-religious” but that his soft-left values are “rooted in my Christianity.”

The 35-year-old Labour Party Member of Parliament, however, has two hurdles to cross if he is to make history in the UK. This is because in the UK, for one to become the Prime Minister, the person must first be a Member of Parliament, the person’s party must win majority of seats out of the 560 seats in the House of Commons during the parliamentary elections and the person must be the leader of his party.

Presently, Chuka is the Member of Parliament for Streatham, a position he has held since 2010 but must re-contest in 2015 and win to retain the seat.

He is also the Shadow Business Secretary, a position held by a member of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The duty of the office holder is to scrutinise the actions of the government’s Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and develop alternative policies. The office holder is a member of the Shadow Cabinet.

According to the UK Telegraph, Chuka is rumoured to have the strong support of a former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who was also a Labour Party leader.

According to the British newspaper, when asked if he was Blair’s anointed candidate, Chuka said, “I really don’t know anything about that.” However, when he was pressed further whether he aspired to head his party, he said, “I don’t entertain any discussion beyond winning the election next year. That would be completely hypocritical of me. To start thinking about hypothetical scenarios would be totally indulgent. All my energy is focused on winning the election, and so should everyone’s. It will be very close.”

Chuka is one of the youngest MPs in the UK having been introduced into British politics by the current Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, while he was in his 20s.

It was Milband that helped him become an MP and later made him his Parliamentary Private Secretary before he was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet in October 2011. He is tipped to become Miliband’s successor and could become the Prime Minister should the Labour Party win next year’s election.

Chuka, however, claims to hate the comparison of him and Obama which he terms the “construct of lazy journalists.” He sharply divides opinion in British politics. Good-looking, articulate, new-media-savvy and a good orator.

According to FT Magazine, he is not universally popular among his own colleagues, who see more style than substance. “He just has a knack of alienating people,” said one experienced Labour MP. “He is probably the most natural communicator I’ve seen since Tony Blair. The problem is that each week he has fewer supporters than he did at the start of the week.”

Even potential allies recount stories of apparent slights or snubs. A senior party figure says, “Chuka has put people’s backs up. They feel he is inaccessible.” Another long-serving MP adds, “The idea of learning the trade first is only for mere mortals, not for him.” Peter Mandelson, the former Labour business secretary who played a key role in Blair’s rise through to the top, thinks the explanation for this is quite simple, “Envy plays a big part in politics,” he says.

Like Blair, Chuka sometimes connects better with those beyond his own circle. John Cridland, head of the CBI employers’ group, calls him “a guy with whom we can do business.” Andrew Tyrie, Tory Chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, say: “He’s extremely talented and charming.” Andrew Adonis, a former Labour minister, sums up his cross-party appeal: “The best politicians are those who look outwards not inwards.”

However, allies of the current British PM, David Cameron, scoffed at the idea that Chuka might represent a threat to Cameron’s second term bid.

“I can’t think of any issue where he’s put us under pressure,” says one close friend of the prime minister. “He’s pretty average – he’s a slick corporate lawyer.”

Also, among his fellow party members, Chuka’s lack of political definition is another source of irritation as some claim they struggle to work out what he really believes in. But Chuka says people should show a bit more patience. “It would be rather unhealthy if after just three years in parliament I was setting out some blueprint for my country,” he says. “What do people expect?”

But some see him as the potential leader of a mainstream 21st-Century Labour party with the kind of crossover appeal of Blair’s New Labour. Despite initial reservations that Chuka might be a bit too left-wing, Blair has started seeing him regularly. “Chuka strikes Tony as very smart,” says one close ally of the former PM. “Business is a particularly important brief in tough economic times and Chuka seems to be rising to the challenge.”

As if Blair’s blessing was not enough, Chuka recalls the “honour” of spending “a small bit of private time with former US President, Bill Clinton, who he describes as one of his political heroes. “I think he defies the left-right description,” Mandelson says in approbation. “He’s part of a generation that transcends those labels.”

He has also recently been to Europe to meet his friend, the French PM, Manuel Valls.

According to statistics, almost 15 per cent of people in Britain describe themselves as “non-white” but the country has never had a party leader from an ethnic minority background. Nobody has ever come close. Chuka confesses that until his late teens he had not even thought about a career in politics because there was “nobody who looked like me” running the country.

Chuka has been vocal in the call for a reduction in government spending as well as issues on immigration. “They [the French] have something like 40 ministers compared to our 80,” he says.

On the EU itself, he has called for reform, saying not long ago that free movement of workers was not intended to mean free movement of jobseekers. “As one of the most pro-European shadow ministers, I don’t think you can ignore the impact that free movement has had on some of our communities,” he says, adding that it has changed because there are “many more EU members.”

He adds, “There’s a number of things we need to look at. Those who tend to raise the issue of immigration with me are my African and Asian constituents. They want confidence there are proper controls.

“They want to see people integrate, which is why we shouldn’t be spending all this money translating documents and [instead] directing resources to ensure people learn English. And you do need to look at free movement.”

Next year’s election may not be based on ethnicity but it obviously will be hard not to notice that a British-Nigerian could become the leader of one of the world’s wealthiest countries.

On the issue of ethnicity, Chuka has this to say, “A lot of people presume – because of my ethnicity – that I come from a particular social background. I am very quick to disabuse people of any sense that I’ve wanted and struggled in the way that, say, my father did. I come from a fairly middle-class background. People try and pigeonhole you in a box and I find that frustrating sometimes.”

If Chuka is hard to pigeonhole, that may be linked to his own pedigree. It seems likely, if not certain, that Chuka, whose name means God is the greatest, is destined to become a larger presence in his party and thus a bigger potential target despite being a person whose father came to the UK from Nigeria without a dime.