JAMB Cancels 2016 Admission List. See reason

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has withdrawn the list of recommended candidates for admission earlier sent to tertiary institutions.

The examination body on Sunday explained that the decision was to ensure that the Senate of Universities perform their statutory responsibility of conducting the selection of candidates and refer it to JAMB for confirmation in line with the admission criteria of merit, catchment and educationally disadvantaged states as directed by the Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, at the policy committee meeting.

The statement, signed by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the earlier list was sent to help fast track the process of admission so as to allow other tiers of institutions also conduct their admission.
“Candidates should not panic because this is part of the process of the 2016 admission exercise. JAMB regrets any inconvenience this decision would have caused the tertiary institutions.

“The Board regrets any inconvenience it’s proactive step would have caused the tertiary institutions,” the statement added.

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HAPPY NEW MONTH TO OUR BLOG VIEWERS

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Ambode Tops Nigeria's Performing Governor

Ambode Tops Nigeria's Performing Governor

According to an ongoing opinion poll organised by the African Leadership Magazine, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State is seen to be in the lead as Nigeria’s top performing governor.

According to a statement by Ambode’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Habib Aruna yesterday, the poll tagged; ‘ Good Governance Polls for Nigeria’s Top Performing Governor, ’ started two weeks ago, with Ambode maintaining the lead with increased 36.1 percent of the total votes cast.

The poll, according to organisers, was designed by the group as part of its strategic engagement tool to monitor performance and gauge the mood of the electorate in Nigeria in line with its objective of providing credible information and support to leaders in Nigeria and Africa at large.

Meantime, at the time of filling this report, voting was ongoing and expected to close in the next four days.

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FG begins payment of ex-militants’ stipends from today

FG begins payment of ex-militants’ stipends from today

The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig-Gen. Paul Boroh (retd), has revealed that ex-Niger Delta militants will start receiving their stipends from today, Monday, August 1.

 

 

 

 

The minister made this know via a statement issued on Sunday by the Head of the Media and Communication Department of the office of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Abuja, Mr. Piriye Keyaramo.

The statement further called on the ex-militants in the region to stop the planned protests scheduled to hold on Monday.
According to the statement, “President Buhari attaches so much importance to the Amnesty Programme, which explains why the President in his inaugural address to the nation specifically promised to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place for the ex-agitators in the region.”

Boroh added that the Federal Government planned to improve the amnesty programme for the benefit of the 30,000 ex-militants and other youths in the region.

“President Muhammandu Buhari, is already putting together a youth development and empowerment package that would directly impact the ex-agitators and other youths in the region,” he said.

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Bone Cancer Teen Marries High School Sweetheart On Hospital Bed

 Bone Cancer Teen Marries High School Sweetheart On Hospital Bed

 

When Swift Myers and Abbi Ruicker, wedded on Sunday, it was from the bed at an Oklahoma hospital where Swift Myers, 18, has spent the last month battling
cancer.

Since seventh grade Myers has battled Ewing sarcoma, a cancerous tumor that occurs in bones or soft tissues, according to the NIH. His latest bout with the disease landed him in an intensive care unit at Saint Frances Children’s Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the last month.


Two days before their wedding day, young Myers asked Abbi, his girlfriend, who is also 18, to marry him.
"He said, ‘Will you be my wife?,' and we’ve always joked about so I just kind of laughed," Abbi told ABC News today. "The next day he said, 'You know I was being serious right?.'"

Abbi told Myers that if he was serious he needed to call her dad to ask for her hand in marriage. Myers picked up the phone and called Abbi's dad and the wedding planning began immediately. Wow!

"Some of the nurses were in the room and as soon as they heard the conversation they took off," Abbi said. "They did everything."
The nursing staff at Saint Francis Children’s Hospital acted as the couple's wedding planners, gathering decorations and finding a wedding cake, a video-grapher and a photographer.

"It felt like I was hearing a love story straight out of a movie," Meagan Ready, the couple's wedding photographer, told ABC News of being asked to help. "I was humbled to have been asked to document such a special occasion."

On Sunday night, around 100 of the couple's friends and family, and the nurses and doctors caring for Myers, packed into a room at the hospital to watch the couple exchange marital vows.

A teacher at the high school where the Myers met bought the couple wedding bands from a local jeweler. Myers added a bowtie to his hospital attire and said his "I do" from his hospital bed.
The hospital bed later featured a "Just Married" sign on poster board signed by guests. "I was in shock," Abbi said of the outpouring of love. "I'm still in shock."

After exchanging wedding vows and sealing their marriage with a kiss, the couple hosted a wedding reception complete with cake.

"I’m really grateful for the nurses," Abbi said. "They are still at work and still went through and did all of this in less than two days for us and that really meant a lot."

Myers is continuing treatments for his cancer, with Abbi by his side every minute of the day. "Since the wedding he’s been much better and in better spirits," she said.

 

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Nigeria will disintegrate before Buhari's very eyes if any more innocent blood is shed- Femi Fani-Kayode

Nigeria will disintegrate before Buhari's very eyes if any more innocent blood is shed- Femi Fani-Kayode

 

 

Former Aviation Minister and GEJ campaign director for 2015 election, Femi Fani-Kayode said this in a new post he shared on his Facebook page. It reads

"On 29th July 2016, CNN reported that "the Nigerian government is preparing troops for a crackdown in the Niger Delta if peace talks fail". This is sad and ominous. As United States Senator Ted Cruz once said "the light of truth is stronger than the terror of darkness". It follows that the biggest mistake that the Buhari administtation can possibly make is to attempt to "crack down" on the Niger Delta and kill innocent civilians.

If this ever happens, for whatever reason, it will set off a chain of events that will lead to the end of Nigeria as we know it. Nigeria will disintegrate before Buhari's very eyes if any more innocent blood is shed and if the towns, creeks and villages of the oil-producing states are shelled and reduced to rubble.

The cause of the people of the Niger Delta, and indeed that of the Igbo people of the eastern states, is just and their struggles and aspirations are legitimate and reasonable. Self-detetmination is a right. It is a concept and principle that is universally accepted and that has the backing of international law. You do not threaten and bomb those that seek to exercise that right: you treat them with respect, decency and decorum and attempt to persuade them to stay.

 This is a point that is lost on President Buhari and those around him. The Avengers are not Boko Haram: taking them on in the field of battle would be a monuemental error.

Check out photos from Asari Dokubo's wife's burial

Check out photos from Asari Dokubo's wife's burial

 

The remains of the first wife of former Niger Delta militant warlord, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, has been laid to rest. The late Zainab died in a ghastly car accident along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Wednesday July 27, 2016. She is survived by her husband, children and relatives. May her soul rest in peace. See more photos below: