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  • ASUU warns candidates on Post-UTME

    ASUU warns candidates on Post-UTME

    The striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that successful candidates at the various 2013 post-UTME examinations to government owned Universities may not be recognised if offered admission from the exercise.

    The union also described as cheap “political statement” the pronouncement of Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State that the strike would be over on Thursday, insisting that the strike would only be suspended if government implements all the components in the 2009 agreement and the 2012 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

    Disclosing these in Minna on Wednesday, the Chairman of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, ASUU chapter, Dr. Abdulfatai Jimoh, said that none of its members would be involved in the conduct the post-UTME for over 3000 candidates slated for Friday and Saturday in the institution.

    Jimoh, who was briefing journalists on the level of compliance by his members to the industrial action, warned that “any student admitted through the on-going Post-UTME is on his or her own because we would not recognise or teach such student.”

    According to him, “if the management goes ahead to conduct the post-UTME, none of the lecturers who are members of ASUU would not participate in the exercise and the students if admitted would not be recognized by the lecturers.”

     

  • Family in search of missing girl

    Family in search of missing girl

    Ebele Odilia Onwuanibe, 18, is reportedly missing.

    A close family source told Nation that Ebele was last seen on July 23, on her way to Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka to write the post UTME.

    The source said Ebele was taken to the park in Lagos by her mother and was wearing a jeans skirt and top. “Ebele chatted with her sister briefly on whatsapp and then her phone went off the radar. The person she was supposed to meet up in Awka hasn’t seen her. Her mother has also gone to the park to get the manifest but Ebele used an alias and there is no record of any accident,” the source added.

    Anybody with information about her whereabouts should kindly contact the nearest police station or her sister on: 08037626344. E-mails can also be sent to: findingebele@gmail.com

  • OAU Post-UMTE: 44 candidates score above 300

    OAU Post-UMTE: 44 candidates score above 300

    The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, says that only 44 candidates of the 12,200 people, who sat for the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Saturday, scored above 300.

    This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, the Public Relations Officer of OAU, in Osogbo on Sunday.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the OAU Post UTME cut-off mark for 2013/ 2014 session is 400.

    It stated Durotoluwa Olanrewaju, who applied to study Chemical Engineering, had the highest score of 332, while Soile Adetola, an intending Medical student, scored 327.

    According to the statement two candidates, Odimayo Moses and Nafiu Oluwadamilare, who applied to study Electrical and Electronics Engineering, scored 323 each.

    It also stated that 5,691 others, scored 200 and above.

    The statement quoted Prof. Bamitale Omole, the university’s Vice-Chancellor, as commending the candidates who scored 300 and above.

    It, therefore, advised candidates who took part in the screening exercise to check their results on the university’s Website or where each candidate registered.

  • OAU Post-UTME result out, four top candidates emerge

    Less than three hours after the conduct of its Post-UTME  screening exercise of  the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, the result has been released.

    The Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju, in a release, stated that out of the 12,200 candidates that wrote the examination, 44 scored 300 marks and above  while 5,691 got 200 marks and above.

    The exercise was based on 400 marks.

    According to the PRO, “three candidates, whose performance were exceptionally outstanding, are: Durotoluwa Olumide Olanrewaju, who applied to study Chemical Engineering, tops the list after scoring 332 (the highest marks of the exercise) while Soile Olufunso Adetola, who applied to study Medicine, came second after scoring 327. However, two Candidates: Odimayo Taiye Moses and Nafiu Olaniyi Oluwadamilare, who both applied to study Electrical and Electronics Engineering, scored 323 each.”

    Commending the intellectual soundness of those that participated in the screening exercise, the Vice – Chancellor, Professor Bamitale Omole, applauded the academic excellence of those who scored Two Hundred (200)and above, particularly the Forty-Four(44) candidates who scored Thee Hundred (300) and above, and most especially the first three(3) best candidates.

    Candidates who took part in the excercise were advised  to check their results on the university website or where they registered for the screening.

  • Varsity for Post-UTME screening

    Varsity for Post-UTME screening

    The Ekiti State University (EKSU) has set aside a week (from July 22 to 29), for the computer-based screening of candidates who have applied for admission into the institution.

    It has also made the screening open to the Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) candidates who did not choose EKSU as first or second choice. However, all candidates must have scored 200 and above in the last UTME.

    Accordingly, candidates are to register online on the university website not later than midnight of Friday, July. Candidates are, however, warned against engaging in any form of examination fraud.