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THE National Examinations Council on Thursday released the June/July 2017 Senior Secondary Schools Examination results. The Council says out of the 1,051,472 who sat for the examinations, only 745,053 of the candidates got at least five credits including Mathematics and English Language. The Registrar of the Council, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, while announcing the results at the headquarters in Minna, Niger State, said a total number of 50,586 candidates (4.81 percent) were involved in examination malpractices, representing a 0.52 percent increment compared to 2016. Uwakwe said the comparative analysis of candidates’ performance in the examination for 2016 (69.74%) and 2017 (70.85%) shows that there is a 1.11 percent improvement in the general performance of candidates. According to him, out of the 1,055,988 candidates who registered for the examinations in Nigeria and other countries only 1,051,472 sat and only 745,053 (70.85 percent) got 5 credits and above including Mathematics and...

Akure —SIXTEEN persons have been docked before an Akure Chief Magistrate Court, in Ondo State over the murder of a United States of America, USA-based business man, Banji Adafi, who was killed in his Nigerian home. The suspects were arraigned before the court for armed robbery and murder. But a twist was introduced to the matter when the Police Prosecutor, Martins Olowofeso asked the Court to release five of the suspects for fresh investigation following new findings by them. The Prosecutor said sequel to the petition from the family of the victim, Banji Adafi , alleging foul play in his death they requested for further investigation and the Police would want the case to be reinvestigated. The lawyer from the office of the DPP, Mr A Bamisile, opposed the application on the premise that the Police ought to have come with written application instead of the oral application moved by the prosecutor. However, pleas of the accused persons were not taken as the court ordered the case f...

Nigerian Musician, Mr Eazi shaded Runtown back after he said he will use the style Mr Eazi claimed to have invented. Mr Eazi shared this on social media, quoting Jay Z’s lyrics from the DJ Khaled song “I got the Keys”. See what he wrote:-

Dr Jones Taiwo, the Head of Clinical Services (HCS) of Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, said the late Aisha Jimoh, who died of Lassa fever, might have contracted the disease in Owo, Ondo State. Taiwo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lokoja that Aisha was in Owo two weeks earlier and took ill as soon as she returned to be with her brother in Gadumo, Lokoja. He said that the first case they earlier had at FMC Lokoja in April was also from Owo area and confirmed positive to Lassa Fever at Irua Specialist Hospital, Edo State, but the patient died within 12 hours. “The boy from Kogi Central, who lived in Owo and was preparing for NYSC Orientation Camp, suddenly had fever in Owo and came to Okene where he was brought to FMC Lokoja. “But the situation was very bad when he came and the samples were collected and sent to Edo State where it was confirmed positive. “But it was unfortunate that the patient died within 12 hours. “The teenage female patient that died ...

The Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has said that lecturers of the state-owned polytechnic, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, RUGIPO, went on strike without a formal notice to the state government. He also said the poor funding of the institution and other government agencies was due to the shortfalls in the allocation from the federation account. The governor spoke on Wednesday in Akure while receiving students of the polytechnic who held a peaceful protest at his office while seeking a quick resolution of the industrial dispute. Mr. Akeredolu said he had called the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, for a meeting with a view to resolving the problem. According to him, what comes from the federal government is not enough to pay workers salaries and subventions to government agencies and institutions. Mr Akeredolu enjoined the students to play their own part by paying their school fees so that the government could pay lecturers. The President of the ins...

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has cancelled mass promotion of primary and secondary school teachers in the state. He stated that henceforth, any teacher that was not qualified for promotion would not be promoted. Akeredolu spoke when the state executive of the All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Akure, the state capital. He said, “As a government policy, we will no longer mass-promote teachers. It is an executive order. Whoever is not qualified will not be promoted. “We are going to have an education summit. It has always been in the offing. It will help to generate ideas that will reposition the sector for excellence. “I have waited for the inauguration of the state executive members to enable the Commissioner for Education have an input in the summit. “Latest by this month, the summit will kick off. It is very important to us, as its outcome would assist government in placing the sector on a higher ped...

Office of the Registrar  RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY  NKPOLU-OROWORUKWO, PORT HARCOURT Advertisement for 2017/2018 Post UTME Screening Exercise All candidates who chose the Rivers State University during the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and have received notification to that effect from JAMB are hereby requested to take note of the following:- i. The screening exercise for admission of candidates will be administered only on candidates who chose RSU and have received notification to that effect from JAMB. ii Only candidates who scored 150 and above in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) are qualified for the screening exercise in all the Faculties of the University. iii. Candidates must possess the basic five (5) O’ level credit passes in accordance with the University’s Entry Requirements (Faculty/Departmental) before applying for the screening exercise. It is mandatory that Candidates should upload their O ‘Level results...