JAMB Releases UTME Result, Few Score Above 250

The 2014 result for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted on Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and Dual Based Test (DBT) which held on the 12th April, 2014 has been released by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

The registrar, Prof Dibu Ojerinde who made this known on Thursday at a news conference in Bwari, Abuja, said a total of 1,015,504 results were released out of the 1.5 million that registered.
Out of over one million (1,015,504) candidates that sat for the
 exam, only 47 per cent scored 250 and above, 315,401 candidates scored between 170 to 199 points, 108,488 candidates scored between 200 to 249 points, 275, 282 candidates scored below 150 points,

122,159 scored between 150 to 159 points while 115,456 scored 160 to 169 points in the PPT mode.

He said the board invalidated 36,164 results, 2,494 results have been withheld due to various examination malpractice and 37,315 were absent. Also eight centres in Abia, Rivers, Ebonyi and Imo States have been indicted by the board for extorting from N500 – N1,000 from the applicants.

The board’s helmsman pledged that the culprits will be dealt with. Other candidates who opted for the Computer-Based Tests (CBT) await their turn and will begin to sit for their own examination in the 256 centres scattered all over and outside the country from Saturday,17th May-Saturday,31st May, 2014.

JAMB has said that this will be the last time they will conducting the paper pencil test. From next year, it will be all CBT as it will help eradicate examination malpractice.

hmmnn! :-/

Man Stabs, Rapes Mother, Beheads Her Baby Son In Ogun

A middle aged man was arrested for raping a woman and beheading her two-year-old son in Ofada town in Obafemi/Owode local government area of Ogun State. The suspect, identified as ‎Mamodu Bashir Ibrahim, allegedly had a carnal knowledge of the mother of the boy, while she detoured to ease herself in a bush in the town. The police reported that the rapist trailed his victim into the bush, pounced on her and dragged the woman into an uncompleted building. All this time the baby was being tied to her back. The man raped the woman, and then stabbed her. The monster has also cut the boy’s head off. A passer by frightened the suspect. He has initially escaped, so it was possible to rescue the woman. But nothing could have been done for the boy. He was dead and his severed head had been taken away. The knife with which the suspect perpetrated the act was discovered at the scene. Further investigation by the police revealed that the murderer had sold the head of the boy to a woman in Ibadan. The detectives from the State Police Command are currently on the trail of the buyer. Journalists spoke with the monster-man at the scene of the crime, which was filled with blood stains. Ibrahim confirmed he raped the woman, killed her son and severe his head which he claimed he threw away into the bush.‎ He also informed the detectives that he has an accomplice, who resides in Ibadan.‎

Wonders will never seize to end!  

Strike Will End Soon - Nyesom Wike

The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike has assured Nigerians that the ongoing strikes by the Academic Staff Union Of Polytechnics (ASUP) and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) will soon be over.

Adding to the statement Wike said that President Goodluck Jonathan has personally intervened to resolve the conflict.

It would be recalled that the lecturers in Nigeria’s public polytechnics have been on a nationwide strike since October 4 because of a series of unmet demands, and COEASU has been on industrial action since December 2013.

Wike said: "No government will be happy that students are roaming the street. We must promise what is practicable. Not just making promises without fulfilling them. Be rest assured that it will be resolved."

Hmnn... Na wa oh! This is that discrimination we have been talking about... this is 6 months and counting

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