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  • WAEC REGISTRAR Please, release my result

    WAEC REGISTRAR Please, release my result

    I have a problem that is disturbing my mind seriously. This is the failure of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to release my result.

    I did the Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) in May/June, 2014.

    My Centre Number is 4240307 and my Examination Number is 4240307091.

    I am appealing to Dr Iyi Uwadiae to help me out of this bad situation in the interest of justice.

    I need this result badly. I want to use it to process an admission into an institution of higher education.

     

    Fabelurin Oluwamayowa Oluwabusola,

    Lafiagi, Kwara State.

  • Parties trade words over planned protest against Osun poll’s result

    Parties trade words over planned protest against Osun poll’s result

    The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State and the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), traded words yesterday over a plot by the latter to sponsor a mass protest to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja to denounce the result of August 9, governorship poll won by Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

    APC also alleged that the PDP had concluded arrangements to carry out a sustained mayhem in Osun to make the state ungovernable.

    Its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi, who revealed the plan in a statement yesterday, said the state’s “PDP leadership is already arranging for hundreds of youths to be transported to Abuja to protest the victory of Aregbesola in the August 9 governorship election.”

    The party insisted that the PDP had “fashioned an elaborate plan to create mayhem in the state and give the impression of popular displeasure at the outcome of the election.

    “The first phase of this plan is to hire 10 buses that will convey young men and women to Abuja to protest Aregbesola’s victory. The youths are allegedly being motivated with N10 million to participate.

    “This protest will be based on the yet-to-be- substantiated allegation by the PDP that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) colluded with the governor and the APC to rig the August 9 election. The underlying theme of the Abuja protest by the PDP will be that INEC gave the election to the APC to prevent President Goodluck Jonathan from winning the 2015 presidential election. So, the protest will be effectively against the INEC and the APC.”

    But the PDP described the allegation as ridiculous.

    The party Publicity Secretary, Prince Bola Ajao, in a statement yesterday, said the allegation should not be taken seriously.

    “It is unfortunate that they are coming up with this cock and bull story. As a matter of fact, we are civilised people who are always in tandem with due process and rule of law. We are at the election petition tribunal and we are sure that with all the unassailable and incontrovertible evidences on ground, we would retrieve the mandate given to our candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, by the people.”

  • Still on 2014 WAEC result

    SIR: The just released 2014 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination has elicited various comments from various quarters. People have also condemned in unmistakable terms the mass failure which is a clear pointer to our ever increasing falling standard of education.

    While the children are gnashing their teeth because of their poor performance, parents also are counting their losses in terms of wasted school fees, pocket money and what have you.

    The government, the schools and the parents are now trading tackles but the damage has already been done. What next is the way out of the quagmire in which we have found ourselves? We have all been caught in a spider’s web and it is too late to cry when the head is off.

    A critical re-appraisal of the secondary educational system calls for urgent action to be taken by both the state and the federal government if we must have to arrest the present abysmal drift. A system where students are promoted en-masse from one class to another must stop. There must be a standard set by the relevant authority so that only the best is promoted from one class to another. Since a desperate disease requires a desperate remedy, it will not be out of place if Senior Secondary (SS) two students must have to write qualifying examination to SS III. Such a qualifying examination must be set by the state Ministry of Education and only those who score 40% and above including English and Mathematics should be promoted.

    The moral decadence now permeating among the youths and across the length and breadth of the country must be addressed and necessary steps taken to curtail them. This is why the return of schools to their original owners must be quickened at the various levels.

    One thing the West African Examination Council has not come up with is statistics of passes recorded by both the private and the public sectors respectively. The need to know this is important so as to know how to take the bull by the horn. One important contagious disease today which no one has even focused on is the issue of home video. A situation whereby you find parents and children preparing for their West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination glued to the television watching home video until the dead of the night does not help issue.

    The politicization of the WAEC fees paid by the various state governments under the guise of free education does not make the parents to be alive to their responsibility since they do not feel the pinch hence they do not bother to monitor the level of preparation of their wards for the examination.

    Our mass education policy is becoming counter-productive. It is affecting the quality of our present day graduates shunned out by the various universities and this is a direct product of our Senior Secondary Schools.

    I have heard people argue for the re-introduction of the Higher School Certificate system. Fine, if it will be a panacea for the dwindling standard of education at the university level. But what is going to be the parameter or the modus-operandi for the admission to study at Higher School Certificate levels? Special schools should be given approval or designated to run the syllabus for the duration it will last. This is one area our educational policy makers should now start looking into before further devastating blow is done to our education.

     

    • Muyiwa Idowu

    Lagos

     

  • APC, APGA reject Aba bye-election result

    The leadership of opposition parties (All Progressives Congress and All Progressive Grand Alliance) in Abia State has respectively rejected the result of a bye-election for Aba State Constituency as was announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    The seat became vacant after Hon. Nwogu Iheasimuo, the former member representing the area died due to a protracted illness.

    According to the result announced after the poll, Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate and wife of the former House of Assembly member, Mrs. Blessing Nkemdirim Iheasimuo, pulled a total vote of 1655, APC candidate, Elder Smart Ebere, 313 and APGA candidate, Chimaobi Akwara, 252 votes.

    However, leaders of APC and APGA in the state have rejected the result, alleging that it was massively rigged by the ruling party.

    According to a chieftain of the APC, Chief Okey Nwagbara, the election which was held at the weekend was characterised by electoral malpractices.

    A chieftain of APGA, Chief Sylvanus Nwaji, alleged the INEC collaborated with the ruling party to deny APGA victory in the bye-election by insisting on taking cast votes to Aba South Local Government headquarters to count instead of counting them at the polling units as stipulated by law.

  • Osun PDP rejects result

    Osun PDP rejects result

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has rejected the result of last Saturday’s election.

    Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) defeated Senator Iyiola Omisore of the PDP with 394,684 votes.

    Omisore had 292,747 votes.

    PDP State Publicity Director Prince Bola Ajao told reporters that his party refused to sign the result sheet because there were issues to be addressed about the poll.

    Representatives of 19 other parties, which participated in the election, including the Labour Party (LP) and Accord, signed the result sheet.

    Ajao said the party would not take a position on the outcome of the poll until it has critically studied it.

  • ‘Omisore, PDP circulating fake survey result’

    ‘Omisore, PDP circulating fake survey result’

    The Director of Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of Osun State Governor, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, has debunked an alleged falsehood being spread by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Iyiola Omisore, on a purported poll survey.

    Okanlawon, in a statement yesterday, said the PDP and Omisore claimed that a survey conducted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) put him ahead of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

    He alleged that a short message being circulated on telephones and the social media claimed that the USAID had conducted a pre-election survey which favours Omisore.

    He said: “The latest claim coming from the PDP represents another fraudulent claim aimed at gaining undeserved advantage.

    “The short message reads thus: USAID opinion poll conducted across the state between 12-21, July put your honour ahead PDP, 58/ APC 42. Such poll may have 2 or 3 error margin.”

    Okanlawon described the alleged poll result as “the manifestation of the falsehood for which the PDP and its candidate are well noted.”

  • JAMB REGISTRAR: Release my result

    I am using this opportunity to appeal to the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to release the result of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) I did in April.

    The board released the results of other candidates a few days after the examination. I don’t know why my own result is being withheld. I did not involve myself in malpractices during the examination and I filled my admission forms in accordance with the board’s rules and regulations.

    I need the result urgently. Without it, I cannot start planning my life. Therefore, I am appealing to the registrar to release the result now.

    My centre is Great Immaculate Secondary School, Aba.

    My registration number is 45008051EB.

     

    Okoli Ebuka Victor, Aba.

  • Keshi: 3-0 not a fair result

    Keshi: 3-0 not a fair result

    SUPER Eagles head coach, Stephen Keshi believes the 0-3 loss to Spain was not a fair result after his side were booted out of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.

    A brace from Jordi Alba and one from Fernando Torres ended Nigeria’s chance of progressing to the semi-finals after Uruguay crushed Tahiti 8-0 in the other Group B game.

    The ‘Big Boss’in a post-match chat noted that the Eagles missed the absence of some keys players.

    “You see when you lose your best defender in a game like this, it is usually tough.

    “To an extent the absence of some of my players affected our play but we will keep learning from this experience,’ he added, even as he blamed anxiety for the catalogue of misses the team suffered.

    “In the first half we did very well, the passes and team play was there but after the second goal we lost it”, he noted.

     

  • Thigh injury: Emenike’s scan result out today

    Thigh injury: Emenike’s scan result out today

    Efforts to get Emmanuel Emenike in shape for Sunday’s final against Burkina Faso got a boost Friday after the AFCON 2013 top scorer underwent a scan to asses his thigh injury.

    While at the team’s evening training session on Friday, SportingLife gathered that the scan was supervised by Eagles doctors and that the result will be out today.

    As the players trained in groups, those that played in the semi-final victory against the Eagles of Mali had a very light training session while the others were drilled to keep them in shape.

    Emenike could however only watch from the bench as Daniel ‘Da Bull’ Amokachi and other Super Eagles coaching staff drilled the players.

    The Eagles are expected to complete their last training session by 5pm Nigerian time today.

     

  • ACN rejects poll result

    •Alleges massive illegalities

    The Benue State Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has rejected last Saturday’s local government election.

    The party said it considered the exercise as an attempt to legitimise the appointment of caretaker committee chairmen by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    The PDP won all the 23 local government seats.

    In a statement in Makurdi, the state capital, by its chairman, Comrade Abba Yaro, ACN alleged that the poll was marred by massive rigging, diversion of materials and snatching of ballot boxes by PDP youths.

    It said the result cannot stand.

    The party added that its leadership in the state was studying the result and would make a statement on it.

    ACN urged its supporters to remain calm.