Shortly after Anita Joseph served haters and cyber bullies with a hot fiery dance with her waist, a troll threw shots at her but was quickly intercepted by her fans who returned the troll with a savage reply.
According to the troll, Anita is swollen headed with the little things she is privileged to have in this life and making noise with it.
Anita savagely replied saying he should use a dictionary before intending to troll since he spelt some words incorrectly. In a bid to redeem himself, fans of the actress jumped him asking him to free Anita for she is not the cause his family problems.
The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday released the cut-off marks the 2020/2021 admissions into Nigerian tertiary institutions. 160 was pegged as the cut-off mark for universities while 120 was pegged for polytechnics. For colleges of education, 100 was pegged as cut-off.
JAMB has been the body in charge of conducting matriculation examinations for admission seekers into all tertiary institutions in Nigeria for decades. This makes it a regulatory body. In fact, JAMB is the body which offers students admissions. Universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education are not the ones who do that.
Source: Technext.ng
That said, with University cut-off mark pegged at 160, what does that say about the standard of our education in Nigeria today? In explaining how JAMB arrived at the various cut-off marks, the Spokesman of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, told The PUNCH that institutions were the ones who submitted their cut-off marks.
Hear him: “The institutions have submitted their cut-off points already from the pool of their submissions. It was like a vote. Over 100 submitted 200 and above as cut-off point, some submitted 180 and above, while a chunk submitted 160 and above.”
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Until now, the lowest cut-off mark for Universities used to be 180. What has changed? Universities took pride in claiming to be citadels of excellence and academic rigour. Are we not losing all of that now?
For years, employers have bemoaned the low quality of graduates that are being churned out by our schools every year. Lowering admission criteria is definitely not unconnected to why this is happening. Nigerian graduates largely are nothing to write home about.
Source: Nairaland Forum
We will like to say here that it’s not their fault. All of this is a consequence of the terrible education they are being taught in our schools. The government has not given education its due attention and we wonder how Nigeria can attain growth and development when our education is nothing to write home about.
This is a wake up call for the Nigerian government and other stakeholders in our educational sector. 160 as cut-off mark for universities is ridiculous. The university is supposed to be a place of scholarship. It requires high cognition on the part of the student. But with a 160 score in JAMB, how do we expect such students to excel?
The popular Nigerian Actor Yul Edochie has reacted to the Death of the Former Miss Lux Ibidun Ajayi-Ighodalo.
Recall, that the 40-year old former Miss Lux died in her hotel in Port Harcourt, Rivers state on June 14. Reports stated that the CEO of Elizabeth R, a public relations and event management died of cardiac arrest.
The burial of ex-beauty queen and event planner, Ibidun Ajayi-Ighodalo, took place at the Vaults and Gardens cemetery in Lagos State yesterday, June 20 and the service was attended by her family members, inlaws, friends, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state, deposed Emir of Kano Sanusi Muhammad II, and many others. Prayers were offered for the repose of her soul as well as for God’s protection for her husband, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, their two children Keke and Zenan, her mother, her siblings as well as her work and the foundation she left behind.
Yul Edochie on reacting to her painful and sudden death took to his social media platform to share his own thoughts and how he feels about her sudden demise.
According to Yul, though he has never met her, but watching her videos brought tears to his eyes, as she was so full of life, full of love for humanity. He asked why feels there’s more to her death than the cardiac arrest story?
Yul added that if anyone took her life, he or she is going to face the Wrath of God. He said May her gentle soul Rest in Peace.
Popular Nigerian actress, Omoni Oboli took to her Instagram page on Sunday to recount how late Ibidunni Ighodalo was to assist her with adopting a baby girl.
“Ibidun it’s been one week and I’m still heart broken. I have done everything this one week to make myself happy. I have tried not to cry everyday but it’s so tough. I hope you know how much I love you. I hope you know how special you are to me. You wanted me to have a baby girl so bad and when I finally agreed to adopt you were excited. You promised to see me through every step of the way. Who will help me now? Who will welcome our baby girl? At night when no one is watching, the tears flow as they are now. I started to fear again, the way I felt after my dad’s passing. Your passing is too close to home and it made me wonder the purpose of it all. I wish I could hug you just one more time. I still go through all our chats. If I could just get one more moment with you so I can hug you extra tight and tell you I love you to bits 😢 It’s hard but we must submit to the will of God. Rest in the bosom of the Lord Ibidun. You remain forever in my heart my darling friend. I love you so much“
1. Nigeria Records 661 new Covid-19 cases and 12 Deaths were recorded as well.
Following the report presented by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, on Saturday being 20th of June 2020, Nigeria recorded 661 new Covid-19 cases and 12 death cases were reported as well.
Meanwhile The country now has the total number of 19808 confirmed cases, 6718 discharged and 506 deaths so far.
According to NCDC, the 661 cases were reported from 14 states, which includes
Lagos-230
Rivers-127
Delta-83
FCT-60
Oyo-51
Edo-31
Bayelsa-27
Kaduna-25
Plateau-13
Ondo-6
Nasarawa-3
Ekiti-2
Kano-2
Borno-1.
In your own opinion, when will this coronavirus of a thing stop?
2. Jigawa State has opened its borders with other states.
According to report this morning, Jigawa State Governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has announced the open of the state and other states, which have been closed since March 24 due to covid19 outbreaks, according to the NAN report.
The governor, who spoke at a press conference in Dutse on Saturday, said that traffic between the state and the rest of the state would be opened in strict measures to prevent the disease.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the reopening comes a week after the weekly open market in the state.
Already 307 out of 317 infected people have been discharged after being cured, while nine have died. “We are praying not to go back to such an uncertain time,” the governor said.
“Currently only one person is being treated [with the virus], while the others at the condominium center have recovered and been discharged. “We are also thankful to God, that in the last four days no one has been infected.
With the prayers and help of the Jigawa people, we will end it,” Badaru said. NAN said the governor said the federal government has given the state a billion naira subsidy, plus 150 trucks full of grain to distribute to the poor. But the governor said the schools would remain closed until issues finally hit the ground.
3. Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN) suspends Adamawa Secretary over alleged mismanagement of N1.350m.
In accordance with reports this morning, The Adamawa Secretary of Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN), Mr Anthony Elishama, has been suspended for three months over alleged mismanagement of N1.350 million.
The association also directed the suspended scribe, to refund the amount within the period of his suspension.
Elishama was further asked to return all official properties, including vehicle and documents, to the Secretariat.
This is contained in a statement issued by Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza, the state Chairman of the association, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Yola.
Mamza said that Elishama’s suspension followed the unanimous decision adopted, during the state executive meeting of the association held on Thursday.
“Mr Anthony Elishama suspension is as a result of mismanaging of funds, belonging to the Nigerian Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) to the tune of N1.350 million (one million three hundred and fifty thousand naira).
“The state executive of Christians Association of Nigeria expressed disappointment by the secretary’s action,” Mamza explained.
The Bishop noted that the present leadership of CAN in the state had zero tolerance to any type of financial indiscipline.
He said that the secretary’s suspension would take effect from June 20, 2020, pending the state executive committee final decision on the issue.
“The suspended Secretary must refund the money to CAN within the period of his suspension.
“He should also immediately summit all the Association’s documents and properties, including the official car at his possession, to CAN Secretariat administration,” the statement read in part.
4. Nigeria intercepts 2 Indians for illegal entry during Covid-19 pandemic.
It was reported that, Two Indian nationals have been intercepted by the Lagos Airport Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), for illegally entering into Nigeria without proper documentation.
Lagos Airport NIS Comptroller, Abdullahi Usman who confirmed this, stated that the 2 Indians were intercepted during the screening of Indian nationals that were been evacuated from Nigeria, through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos.
Usman explained that while profiling the men, it was discovered that they entered Nigeria through the land borders and had visa on arrival application approval which they failed to present to Immigration at the Seme border.
Usman further disclosed that the men had been In Cotonou, Benin Republic for a month as they had the stamp of that country dated 9th March 2020, when they left and entered Nigeria illegally as they did not present themselves for Immigration checks at the border.
4. The Nigerian Embassy staff quarters in Ghana has been demolished.
According to reports, Some portion of the staff quarters of the Nigerian Embassy in Ghana has been demolished.
The demolition exercise was said to have been carried out late Friday, although the Nigerian government has yet to react to the incident.
A source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, revealed that a businessman had claimed that the Nigerian High Commission’s staff quarters was being built on his land.
The man reportedly showed up last week with some pieces of evidence, to support his claim and began to knock down the fence surrounding the building.
According to the source, the action of the man was not opposed while the Nigerian High Commission petitioned the Ghanaian Government about it, but there was no response.
After some days later, the man was said to have returned to the premises of the staff quarters and this time, with a bulldozer and began to pull down the building.
In a bid to stop the demolition, officials contacted the police who reportedly showed up at the site when the building was almost pulled down.
It is reported that while the police allegedly allowed the man to leave the scene without reprimand or questioning, the Ghanaian authorities have yet to respond to the Nigerian High Commission about what happened.
5.ROAD FAILURE: Stereotypical design to blame — Onuesoke.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Delta State and former governorship candidate, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has traced the causes of Nigerian road failure to stereotypical engineering design.
Onuesoke, who made the statement when Officials of Project Implementation and Evaluation, Project Monitoring, Governor’s Office, headed by Hon Raymond Edijana visited Sector A of Ughelli-Asaba Road Dualisation Project recently, said not until Nigeria engineers deviate from using one particular designs in the construction of roads in different parts of Nigeria, the country will continue to experience the problem of road failure.
He explained that the construction of a road starts from conception, planning, and design, stressing that without a good design of the road the functionality of the road may not be achieved.
Onuesoke argued that even when the construction and supervision is adequate without the design process well done, the end product in the form of a road project will not be functional.
The PDP chieftain, who is the Special Project Director of Sector A of Ughelli-Asaba Road Project observed that most of the roads in the country are designed by consultants, some of who are not within the environment of the road work, adding that this has led to a situation where preliminary studies of the environment that will help the design and construction decisions are not done.
“Consequently, they constrain their design to a particular style, which leads to poor understanding of the road environment and which subsequently leads to poor road design and construction.
“Designs that are meant for dry land areas like in the Northern part of the country for instance are equally applied to riverine areas of the Niger Delta region. Thus, if such design lasts ten years in the North, it will not last up to five years in the Nigeria Delta region because of the different environmental terrain,” Onuesoke explained.
He disclosed that for the road network to last longer and save it from early collapse, it requires good and efficient pragmatic engineering design frameworks that takes the different environmental terrain in the country into consideration.
Onuesoke advised that foreign road construction expatriates should be made to work side by side with local professional bodies that have more knowledge of the local environment, stressing that the professional bodies can even act as checks and monitors to the construction firm on road work in the country.
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Atiku, while reacting to the entrant of Obaseki and his deputy, honorable Philip Shaibu, congratulated the duo for taking the bold step in dumping the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
Obaseki alongside his deputy, Philip Shaibu formally joined the PDP after days of meetings with the leadership of the PDP, following his disqualification by the APC governorship screening committee.
But Atiku in a statement on Friday by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, called on Edo people to rally behind the PDP and Governor Obaseki for the delivery of democracy dividends.
“I am excited that Obaseki has finally exited the oppressive All Progressive Congress, APC and joined the truly democratic party in Nigeria. I am not in any doubt that your coming into the PDP would galvanize our great party to mobilize the people behind the common cause of deepening democratic ethos and values in our country and restoring prosperity to our people.
The Waziri Adamawa reminded Obaseki that the PDP is a reformed and repositioned party.
“The PDP that you have decided to come to join today is a reformed and repositioned political party –not the party you used to know, it is one that lives by its name of being a truly democratic party.
“I have an unflinching conviction that your joining the Peoples Democratic Party would be an asset to us. As a united family, we can work to extinct every form of undemocratic and tyranical tendencies in our body politic and realign the good people of Edo state to the moving train of democracy and restoration of good governance to the country”, the statement read.”
Obaseki on Friday picked up the party’s nomination and expression of interest forms in readiness for the primary election, after the National chairman of the PDP Prince Uche Secondus issued him a waiver certificate.
Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River has tasked the new batch of mobile policemen deployed to state border town Gakem, to strickly enforce the ban on inter-state travel.
The governor urged the law enforcement agents, to prevent unwanted traveller from Benue from entering the state, to protect the residents of the state from COVID-19 infection.
“It was based on the maximum cooperation and zealousness of your predecessors, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, vigilantes and youths at the border, that facilitated the apprehension and return of 11 truck loads of suspected “almajirai” and herdsmen.
“These people numbering about 895 were trying to stealthily enter the state admidst the COVID-19 lockdown,” Ayade said.
He also distributed hand sanitiser and other items to the officers and nurses at the border area for proper hygiene maintenance while carrying out their duties.
Responding, the Unit Commander, Insp. Sabo Dungah, thanked the governor for the reception accorded them.
Dungah assured him of the maximum cooperation of the officers in ensuring that every government directive towards ensuring that the state remained COVID-19 free would be followed religiously.
He died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) isolation centre around 12:30 pm on Thursday.
Betta Edu: Cross River commissioner of health
Akwaji, who was said to be diabetic, exhibited fatigue, fever, cough, breathlessness, classic symptoms of the virus.
TheCable, quoting Akwaji’s family source, reported that Akwaji was treated for malaria and pneumonia with no improvement.
It also reported that some persons who visited the lawmaker at the hospital are already showing symptoms of COVID-19.
Cross River is the only state where any case of COVID-19 has not been confirmed in the country.
It may be joining the leaderboard if NCDC verifies the cause of Akwaji’s death.
In April, the commissioner of health, Betta Edu claimed that some officials of the NCDC were offering bribes to people in the state to claim they have symptoms of COVID-19.
Here, we shall see the ranking of the 36 states we have in Nigeria based on infrastructural development. The ranking is solemnly based on my interest and certain factors influence me to make this write up. It is known that people like us are not always on social media. Other people from other places make a ranking just to favour cities based on their interest. This is why I made it clear that this is made my and and it is the result of my findings.
The partial reopening included terminal classes like primary six, junior secondary school three and senior secondary school three. And 29 June has been fixed for the reopening. If there is no escalation to the pandemic spread, other classes will open fully on 15 July.
There are concerns from the public that it is still risky to reopen schools now and put the lives of the students at risk. The fear was mainly expressed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19. The two bodies represent the interest of the federal government and whatever they say is the order of the federal government.
Governor Seyi Makinde’s approach to the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic is quite different to others in other states. He has not followed the bandwagon by locking down Oyo State. While other state governors are locking down and imposing stringent curfews, Seyi Makinde has allowed the people of the state to go about with their businesses.
While the dreaded disease is at ravaging the whole world and Nigeria, Mr. Making announced he would reopen schools. However, with the order by the federal government that schools shouldn’t be opened yet, how should Makinde handle?
Mr. Makinde has to move on with his plans to allow a partial reopening of schools. The children can’t be kept out of schools forever. The pandemic doesn’t appear to be abating soon and we all need to check the feasibility of the reopening of the locked schools.
A state government has power to shut down or open schools. And in this matter, it was Oyo State Government under Mr. Makinde that shut all the schools. There was no national order to close the schools, hence there shouldn’t be any federal instructions for the reopening.
Every state determined when to shut the schools as the issue of Covid-19 ravaged the country, Mr. Makinde was the one who shut the schools and he has power to reopen them.
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