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  • UNILAG, LASU extend Post-UTME registration

    THE University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the Lagos State University (LASU) have extended the registration deadline for the 2017/2018 post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation (UTME) screening to Friday.

    Both institutions had initially announced closure of the registration portal last Friday.

    However, candidates have now been told they can still register until Friday this week.

    This is likely a result of JAMB’s directive to tertiary institutions not to close registration or conduct post-UTME screening until the National Examination Council (NECO) released the results of its June/July Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) and they (the institutions) got a comprehensive list of candidates that reflected those who had applied to change their institutions of choice.

    The NECO released its result last Thursday.

    A statement signed by the UNILAG Registrar, Dr. Taiwo Ipaye, confirming the postponement, reads: “This is to inform the general public that the University of Lagos online registration for the Post-UTME Screening application has been extended to close on Friday, September 22, 2017.”

    The LASU statement signed by Mr. Ademola Adekoya Ag. Head, Centre for Information Press and Public Relations, reads: “In order for Candidates with outstanding issues to complete their registration and allow for new UTME Candidates, who have recently changed their first choice of institution to the Lagos State University, to process their registration, the Lagos State University Management has approved one-week extension of the 2017/2018 Online Admission Screening Exercise.”

  • AFRIFF 2014: Organisers extend date for film submission

    AFRIFF 2014: Organisers extend date for film submission

    •…To accommodate entries still in transit from across Africa

    Ahead of this year’s edition of the prestigious Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) taking place in Calabar, the tourism hub in Nigeria, organisers are calling for film entries from African filmmakers, with a closing date now extended to July 24, 2014.

    The event which enters its fourth edition this year, will resonate with film workshops, training programmes and thrills, from November 9th to 16th, at the popular Tinapa Business Resort, Calabar, capital of Cross River state.

    AFRIFF, according to its Artistic Director, Keith Shiri, “is a platform that seeks to give expression to African cinema, by recognising and rewarding excellence in the industry.”

    The event, will feature daily film screenings, workshops, master classes, exhibitions, film premieres, glamorous opening and closing ceremonies, and will round off with an award night that will celebrate winning film entries, as well as their cast and crew.

    Shiri, an advisor for the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival (LFF), noted that eligible films must have been produced after January 1, 2013, while preference will be given to films which are yet to be screened globally or in Africa.

    According to him, categories for entry will include Feature, Short, Documentary and Animation, with monetary award prizes ranging from $3000 to $6000.

    Urging interested filmmakers to ensure that they read the rules and regulations thoroughly before submitting their films for the award segment of the festival, the artistic director disclosed that Short films must be of 40 minutes or less, while Feature length films must exceed 40 minutes.

    “For your film to be considered for the 4th Africa International Film Festival, please include a DVD copy of the film, plus a synopsis and/or press kit as soon as possible. You can also send an online screener via dropbox to info@afriff.com. We also require you to complete our entry submission form,” he stated, adding that “guidelines and entry forms can be found on the festival website on www.afriff.com and other platforms such as www.facebook.com/Africafilmfest, www.facebook.com/groups/124634550901861/, www.twitter.com/afriff, and on @afriff on instagram.”

    Although the festival started four years ago, it made its debut in Calabar, last year, with American actress Lynn Withfield and Nollywood star Rita Dominic as ambassadors of the festival.

    Shiri, in a recent interview assured that this year’s outing will be more glamorous and resourceful.

  • …Extend to Bode George, Tafa Balogun and others

    …Extend to Bode George, Tafa Balogun and others

    SIR: Whoever says President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is not conscious of the federal character principle when doing his things should check the list of those recently granted pardon to see how magnanimous the president was in ensuring that the beneficiaries were drawn from almost all the geo -political zones of the country.

    But the truth of the matter is that President Jonathan would still have to do more; if he could be so good to Alamieyeseigha, what precludes his goodwill from flowing to his contemporaries in the crime of money laundering and abuse of office?

    Mr. Tafa Balogun who was Inspector General of Police, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, former Governor of Edo State and Chief Bode George, former chairman of the National Ports Authority would have appreciated the goodwill more than the dead paraded on Jonathan’s list, after all, these individuals are still alive and kicking.

    The President may have forgotten that extending such gestures to them would be a good tactic of preparing towards 2015. If he is truly the president of all as he claims, then he should not have been selective in his choice of money laundering convicts to be pardoned, after all, ‘all convicts are equal’ or is it that Alams is more equal than the others?

    Chief Alameseigha’ pardon is no doubt a presidential endorsement of illegal accumulation of wealth; the whole scenario is a mockery of the administration’s fight against corruption which has been shown to be bogus in its entirety anyway. It has only shown that public officials who loot public treasury can freely succumb to the warm hands of temptation, all they need do is to steal as much as they can, strike some plea bargaining deal with the prosecution in the event of one, get some very light sentence (which substantial part is to be served in the hospital), go home and enjoy the loot for some years and thereafter apply for state pardon. All they need ensure is a that they are in the good books of His Excellency, once that is guaranteed, there would be no problem.

    One thing that should be kept in mind is that Alamieyeseigha’s pardon is just a gateway for others that are still being hatched in the nooks of the presidential villa. Tafa Balogun, Lucky Igbinedion, Bode George and others of their kinds may someday carry the day as Alams has done now.

    • Vincent Adodo

    Legal Aid Council, Ilorin, Kwara State.

  • Police extend search for Rotimi’s wife to other states

    Police extend search for Rotimi’s wife to other states

    •Suspects to remain in custody

    The Oyo State Police Command yesterday said it has extended its search for Mrs. Titilayo Rotimi, wife of the former Military Governor of the Western State, Gen. Oluwole Rotimi (rtd.), to other states.

    Mrs. Rotimi was abducted by gunmen in front of her company on the Ibadan-Ife Expressway, on December 10, around 6:30pm.

    Eyewitnesses said she was forced into a Primera car and taken to an unknown destination.

    Police spokesman Mr. Ayodele Lanade told The Nation yesterday that the command was yet to get a strong clue about her whereabouts.

    He said the command had extended its search to other states and urged the public to assist them with information.

    Lanade assured residents that the command would rescue Mrs. Rotimi.

    He said the police have secured a court order to detain nine of the 10 suspects arrested in relation with the abduction, pending the conclusion of their investigation.

    Lanade said the only female suspect was released on bail to allow her nurse her baby.